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title: "Jake Nelken (@jnelken)"
description: "Rank #520 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/jnelken
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Jake Nelken (@jnelken)

Rank #520 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/jnelken

## Standing

- Rank: #520 of 2498
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 31.35B all time
- Cost: $19182.08 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 6148
- Tracking: 2026-08-04 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. Plant Manager 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 | 3.8 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 3.4M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 38.0 | 6.0 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $32.11 | <= $104.48 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 3 of 3) at $100, 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
- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, 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: 1.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 84
- Busiest day: 2026-09-29 at 1.30B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 8.92B | $3288.48 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 6.35B | $3581.30 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 6.26B | $5039.14 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 2.56B | $885.76 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 2.23B | $2345.09 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.47B | $1600.18 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 882.8M | $1395.84 |
| cursor | default | 838.2M | $746.19 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 256.2M
- Cached input: 30.18B
- Cache write 5m: 347.2M
- Cache write 1h: 456.3M
- Output: 107.6M
- Reasoning output: 37.5M

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