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title: "David Kogan (@dkogan)"
description: "Rank #975 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/dkogan
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# David Kogan (@dkogan)

Rank #975 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/dkogan

## Standing

- Rank: #975 of 2502
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 14.77B all time
- Cost: $13879.65 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 3923
- Tracking: 2026-07-30 to 2026-09-11

## How this tier was reached

Tier is a weighted score across the axes measured for you, so a strong axis offsets a weak one. Operator needs a higher combined score, and cost also caps the tier on its own.
Scored on 5 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 4.0 | 3.1 | yes | agents running at once |
| depth | 4.1M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 1.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 29 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $1412.61 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 2 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 40
- Busiest day: 2026-08-28 at 817.8M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 5.08B | $4025.46 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 3.70B | $1967.97 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 3.34B | $5241.39 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.36B | $1182.91 |
| cursor | grok-bot-default | 649.8M | $871.60 |
| grok | grok-4.6 | 233.1M | $97.50 |
| cursor | cursor-grok-4.6-high-fast | 155.6M | $212.71 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 106.3M | $161.07 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 124.4M
- Cached input: 14.17B
- Cache write 5m: 282.4M
- Cache write 1h: 112.8M
- Output: 84.8M
- Reasoning output: 15.3M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/dkogan