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title: "John Paul Ashenfelter (@jpa5n)"
description: "Rank #1511 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/jpa5n
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# John Paul Ashenfelter (@jpa5n)

Rank #1511 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/jpa5n

## Standing

- Rank: #1511 of 2502
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 6.54B all time
- Cost: $6013.81 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1741
- Tracking: 2026-07-29 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 5 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.5 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 4.1M | 10.4M | no | 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 | $202.11 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 2 of 3) at $300, earned 2026-10-01
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-10-01
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-01
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-10-01

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 79
- Busiest day: 2026-10-20 at 410.8M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 2.22B | $2033.20 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 1.47B | $655.27 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 1.17B | $2023.82 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 684.3M | $566.25 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 470.7M | $280.53 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 223.9M | $338.03 |
| codex | gpt-6-sol | 82.9M | $21.97 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 75.0M | $16.14 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 37.1M
- Cached input: 6.33B
- Cache write 5m: 41.1M
- Cache write 1h: 103.2M
- Output: 29.1M
- Reasoning output: 9.6M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/jpa5n