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title: "Drake Thomsen (@howler-0ne)"
description: "Rank #70 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/howler-0ne
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Drake Thomsen (@howler-0ne)

Rank #70 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/howler-0ne

## Standing

- Rank: #70 of 2501
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 109.86B all time
- Cost: $80099.74 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 9007
- Tracking: 2026-07-29 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. 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 | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 5.6M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 7.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 19 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $407.13 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **day-one**, earned 2026-09-07
- **efficient** (level 1 of 3) at $750, 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: 1.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 78
- Busiest day: 2026-08-05 at 8.64B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 64.99B | $48267.25 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 23.06B | $9808.47 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 6.75B | $14883.06 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 4.80B | $4512.06 |
| codex | unknown | 2.96B | $103.19 |
| pi | deepseek-v4-flash | 2.52B | $10.37 |
| claude | qwen3.8-max-preview | 1.63B | $463.55 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 1.43B | $1546.10 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 3.38B
- Cached input: 103.49B
- Cache write 5m: 2.62B
- Cache write 1h: 0
- Output: 376.9M
- Reasoning output: 144.8M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/howler-0ne