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title: "Gautam Tayal (@gautam)"
description: "Rank #916 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/gautam
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Gautam Tayal (@gautam)

Rank #916 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/gautam

## Standing

- Rank: #916 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 15.95B all time
- Cost: $11033.62 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1596
- Tracking: 2026-08-08 to 2026-10-24

## 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 4 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 1.3M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 13 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $135.19 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 3 of 3) at $100, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, 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: 500
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 62
- Busiest day: 2026-09-02 at 1.22B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 12.02B | $8443.61 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 1.69B | $528.65 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.43B | $1370.18 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 355.2M | $194.96 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 229.5M | $136.92 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 212.3M | $351.60 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 3.6M | $0.76 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 3.5M | $4.28 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 20.1M
- Cached input: 15.61B
- Cache write 5m: 50.2M
- Cache write 1h: 227.9M
- Output: 45.3M
- Reasoning output: 14.8M

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