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title: "Luke Melia (@luke-melia)"
description: "Rank #947 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/luke-melia
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Luke Melia (@luke-melia)

Rank #947 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/luke-melia

## Standing

- Rank: #947 of 2499
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 15.41B all time
- Cost: $9083.83 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1854
- Tracking: 2026-08-05 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. Plant Manager 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 | 2.0 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 7.5M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 31.5 | 6.0 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $32.78 | <= $104.48 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 2 of 3) at $300, earned 2026-10-06
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-10-06
- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-10-06
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-06
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-10-06

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 56
- Busiest day: 2026-10-15 at 831.2M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 9.96B | $4229.99 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 2.54B | $1823.23 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 1.23B | $1617.54 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 819.2M | $652.84 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-7 | 649.7M | $616.75 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 60.9M | $67.83 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 57.5M | $14.91 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 39.3M | $18.42 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 3.0M
- Cached input: 15.02B
- Cache write 5m: 68.3M
- Cache write 1h: 264.0M
- Output: 52.5M
- Reasoning output: 17.2M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/luke-melia