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title: "Lenin Bala (@lenin-bala)"
description: "Rank #2138 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/lenin-bala
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Lenin Bala (@lenin-bala)

Rank #2138 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/lenin-bala

## Standing

- Rank: #2138 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 1.47B all time
- Cost: $1230.87 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 125
- Tracking: 2026-08-03 to 2026-09-16

## 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 | 9.3M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 15 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $642.73 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 1 of 3) at $750, earned 2026-09-16
- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-16
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-16

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 27
- Busiest day: 2026-09-02 at 256.4M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 850.3M | $685.56 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 315.5M | $320.96 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-7 | 298.0M | $223.21 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 1.5M | $1.02 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 267.8K | $0.12 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 22.0K
- Cached input: 1.42B
- Cache write 5m: 2.8M
- Cache write 1h: 34.4M
- Output: 6.4M
- Reasoning output: 1.5M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/lenin-bala