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title: "Thomas Nguyen (@el-spectrum)"
description: "Rank #156 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/el-spectrum
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Thomas Nguyen (@el-spectrum)

Rank #156 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/el-spectrum

## Standing

- Rank: #156 of 2501
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 76.79B all time
- Cost: $47266.11 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 9499
- Tracking: 2026-08-24 to 2026-10-26

## How this tier was reached

Tier is a weighted score across the axes measured for you, so a strong axis offsets a weak one. Plant Manager 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 | 3.8 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 8.3M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 5.0 | 6.0 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $594.92 | <= $104.48 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 2 of 3) at $300, earned 2026-09-22
- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-22
- **run-01**, earned 2026-09-22
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-22
- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-09-22
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-22
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-22

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 64
- Busiest day: 2026-10-06 at 3.57B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 42.22B | $20215.55 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 13.53B | $10735.58 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 6.43B | $6520.48 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 2.68B | $1045.67 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 2.50B | $916.33 |
| claude | k3 | 2.04B | $227.70 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 1.91B | $3216.24 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 1.43B | $2635.58 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 337.9M
- Cached input: 74.28B
- Cache write 5m: 962.5M
- Cache write 1h: 944.1M
- Output: 271.8M
- Reasoning output: 124.6M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/el-spectrum