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title: "Shadow Master (@iamtheshadowmaster)"
description: "Rank #1975 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/iamtheshadowmaster
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Shadow Master (@iamtheshadowmaster)

Rank #1975 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/iamtheshadowmaster

## Standing

- Rank: #1975 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 2.63B all time
- Cost: $2771.61 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 393
- Tracking: 2026-08-24 to 2026-10-23

## 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 | 5.3M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 3.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 14 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $52.55 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-22

## Milestones

- sessions: 100
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 39
- Busiest day: 2026-09-22 at 343.3M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 1.63B | $1262.96 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 711.7M | $1186.07 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 116.6M | $170.85 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 96.1M | $37.62 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 63.6M | $104.72 |
| codex | codex-auto-review | 5.5M | $0.27 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 5.1M | $3.27 |
| hermes | gpt-6-astra | 1.7M | $4.15 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 4.4M
- Cached input: 2.56B
- Cache write 5m: 10.1M
- Cache write 1h: 49.5M
- Output: 11.7M
- Reasoning output: 1.2M

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