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title: "James Garside (@garside)"
description: "Rank #615 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/garside
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# James Garside (@garside)

Rank #615 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/garside

## Standing

- Rank: #615 of 2502
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 26.35B all time
- Cost: $18337.40 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 3195
- Tracking: 2026-07-30 to 2026-10-26

## Links

- Site: https://github.com/jamesagarside

## 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 | 4.0 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 7.0M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 32.0 | 6.0 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 28 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $48.45 | <= $104.48 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 2 of 3) at $300, earned 2026-09-07
- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 500
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 78
- Busiest day: 2026-10-13 at 2.75B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 15.57B | $6996.56 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 5.64B | $4206.48 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 3.22B | $4853.44 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.62B | $1900.54 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-7 | 117.1M | $205.39 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 96.7M | $89.93 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-4-6 | 52.3M | $38.76 |
| cursor | claude-fable-5-1-thinking-high | 16.5M | $31.69 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 1.3M
- Cached input: 25.59B
- Cache write 5m: 420.5M
- Cache write 1h: 220.6M
- Output: 115.6M
- Reasoning output: 30.5M

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