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title: "Katsuhisa Kitano (@katsuhisa-kitano)"
description: "Rank #1218 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/katsuhisa-kitano
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Katsuhisa Kitano (@katsuhisa-kitano)

Rank #1218 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/katsuhisa-kitano

## Standing

- Rank: #1218 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 10.24B all time
- Cost: $6202.22 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 572
- Tracking: 2026-08-03 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 | 13.7M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 1.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 29 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $513.77 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 100
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 67
- Busiest day: 2026-10-03 at 770.9M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 5.08B | $2611.02 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 3.49B | $2350.24 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 568.2M | $167.34 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 419.7M | $429.47 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 321.1M | $466.61 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 251.9M | $170.65 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 79.9M | $4.65 |
| devin | glm-5-3-max | 26.8M | $0.34 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 3.2M
- Cached input: 10.03B
- Cache write 5m: 72.6M
- Cache write 1h: 115.9M
- Output: 20.8M
- Reasoning output: 5.4M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/katsuhisa-kitano