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title: "Mike Straczek (@manss)"
description: "Rank #948 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/manss
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Mike Straczek (@manss)

Rank #948 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/manss

## Standing

- Rank: #948 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 15.39B all time
- Cost: $7943.83 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 2236
- 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 | 2.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 5.3M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 2.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 26 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $223.78 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-14

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 67
- Busiest day: 2026-09-29 at 1.03B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 9.06B | $3349.32 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 4.54B | $3646.78 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 1.30B | $606.27 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 291.1M | $156.96 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 81.7M | $38.62 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 76.6M | $107.46 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 38.7M | $36.86 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 711.9K | $1.57 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 225.7K
- Cached input: 14.97B
- Cache write 5m: 148.1M
- Cache write 1h: 224.8M
- Output: 41.7M
- Reasoning output: 10.0M

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