---
title: "James (@james)"
description: "Rank #1345 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/james
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# James (@james)

Rank #1345 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/james

## Standing

- Rank: #1345 of 2501
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 8.46B all time
- Cost: $8562.64 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 548
- Tracking: 2026-08-14 to 2026-10-26

## Links

- X: https://x.com/jamesfong

## 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 | 14.6M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 1.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 27 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $718.32 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-11

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 63
- Busiest day: 2026-10-20 at 620.8M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 5.81B | $6690.97 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 1.52B | $839.67 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 884.4M | $697.56 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 234.8M | $333.55 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 386.1K | $0.22 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 221.5K | $0.21 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 164.4K | $0.45 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 359.0K
- Cached input: 8.03B
- Cache write 5m: 254.5M
- Cache write 1h: 155.6M
- Output: 20.5M
- Reasoning output: 4.0M

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