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title: "Joker James (@joker-james)"
description: "Rank #1715 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/joker-james
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Joker James (@joker-james)

Rank #1715 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

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

## Standing

- Rank: #1715 of 2499
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 4.57B all time
- Cost: $3889.87 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 980
- Tracking: 2026-07-29 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 4 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 7.4M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 19 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $697.38 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-08

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 67
- Busiest day: 2026-08-13 at 240.6M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 1.80B | $1373.23 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 1.19B | $1632.62 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 934.0M | $660.50 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 231.1M | $35.77 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 191.3M | $64.85 |
| claude | deepseek-v4-flash | 76.6M | $12.82 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 55.1M | $91.06 |
| claude | deepseek-v4-pro | 36.7M | $8.01 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 125.6M
- Cached input: 4.33B
- Cache write 5m: 93.1M
- Cache write 1h: 264.3K
- Output: 19.4M
- Reasoning output: 3.5M

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