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title: "Mani Malek (@mani-malek)"
description: "Rank #967 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/mani-malek
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Mani Malek (@mani-malek)

Rank #967 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/mani-malek

## Standing

- Rank: #967 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 14.80B all time
- Cost: $15931.75 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 2184
- Tracking: 2026-07-30 to 2026-09-21

## 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 | 2.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 8.2M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 4.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $473.39 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 1 of 3) at $750, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 52
- Busiest day: 2026-09-02 at 1.08B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 11.05B | $9476.37 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 2.07B | $5052.98 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 818.9M | $313.97 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 494.2M | $565.72 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 303.5M | $503.31 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 70.9M | $18.33 |
| codex | gpt-5.5 | 1.9M | $1.08 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 1.0M
- Cached input: 14.14B
- Cache write 5m: 224.3M
- Cache write 1h: 384.4M
- Output: 58.6M
- Reasoning output: 25.8M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/mani-malek