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title: "James Tan (@james-tan)"
description: "Rank #379 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/james-tan
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# James Tan (@james-tan)

Rank #379 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/james-tan

## Standing

- Rank: #379 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 42.59B all time
- Cost: $26666.93 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 2202
- Tracking: 2026-08-09 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 3 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 25.2M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| sustain | 29 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 500
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 74
- Busiest day: 2026-10-13 at 3.44B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 21.80B | $8675.99 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 13.49B | $9081.63 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 3.10B | $3518.63 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 1.96B | $2958.60 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 1.42B | $2156.44 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 648.2M | $159.51 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 135.4M | $97.09 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 16.9M | $12.68 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 70.4M
- Cached input: 41.49B
- Cache write 5m: 665.2M
- Cache write 1h: 213.4M
- Output: 144.3M
- Reasoning output: 50.4M

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