---
title: "Emile Pretorius (@emile-pretorius)"
description: "Rank #399 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/emile-pretorius
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Emile Pretorius (@emile-pretorius)

Rank #399 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/emile-pretorius

## Standing

- Rank: #399 of 2499
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 40.81B all time
- Cost: $24462.18 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 6486
- Tracking: 2026-08-08 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 3 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 4.0 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 6.5M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 30 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 79
- Busiest day: 2026-08-20 at 1.59B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 13.27B | $5074.53 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 12.58B | $9597.49 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 3.37B | $4980.59 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 3.33B | $990.85 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.60B | $1599.25 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 1.12B | $17.15 |
| codex | gpt-6-sol | 1.02B | $270.81 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 995.8M | $314.07 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 197.3M
- Cached input: 39.57B
- Cache write 5m: 300.6M
- Cache write 1h: 619.7M
- Output: 123.2M
- Reasoning output: 42.3M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/emile-pretorius