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title: "Karthik Iyer (@karthikiyer365)"
description: "Rank #2193 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/karthikiyer365
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Karthik Iyer (@karthikiyer365)

Rank #2193 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/karthikiyer365

## Standing

- Rank: #2193 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 1.22B all time
- Cost: $729.56 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 133
- Tracking: 2026-08-24 to 2026-10-25

## Links

- Site: https://karthikiyer.info

## 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 | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 6.9M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 5.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 19 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $15.62 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Milestones

- spend: 100
- tokens: 100.0M

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 27
- Busiest day: 2026-09-21 at 210.4M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 775.5M | $459.17 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 308.7M | $210.72 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 106.7M | $49.16 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 23.6M | $8.46 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 6.1M | $2.00 |
| codex | codex-auto-review | 503.1K | $0.03 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 28.9K | $0.04 |
| codex | unknown | 0 | $0.00 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 296.5K
- Cached input: 1.19B
- Cache write 5m: 677.2K
- Cache write 1h: 30.7M
- Output: 4.1M
- Reasoning output: 1.1M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/karthikiyer365