---
title: "Jason McFadden (@jason-mcfadden)"
description: "Rank #1820 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/jason-mcfadden
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Jason McFadden (@jason-mcfadden)

Rank #1820 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/jason-mcfadden

## Standing

- Rank: #1820 of 2502
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 3.82B all time
- Cost: $1693.00 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 894
- Tracking: 2026-08-23 to 2026-09-27

## Bio

> System Prompt & Persona Instructions Tone of Voice and Style •	The Persona: Speak like Jason Fried, but with a highly professional executive edge. Be direct, cl

## Links

- Site: https://linkedIn.com/jaymcfadden

## 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 | 1.5 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 2.1M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 10 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |

## Milestones

- sessions: 500
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 15
- Busiest day: 2026-09-21 at 3.08B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| opencode | claude-sonnet-4-6 | 2.97B | $1151.16 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 320.0M | $292.63 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 204.1M | $91.27 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 188.9M | $54.48 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 45.6M | $31.23 |
| codex | gpt-reserve | 26.1M | $0.70 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 22.8M | $23.01 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 20.3M | $37.33 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 13.6M
- Cached input: 3.73B
- Cache write 5m: 51.1M
- Cache write 1h: 17.6M
- Output: 12.4M
- Reasoning output: 2.4M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/jason-mcfadden