---
title: "Markus Jordaan (@markus-jordaan)"
description: "Rank #1366 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/markus-jordaan
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Markus Jordaan (@markus-jordaan)

Rank #1366 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/markus-jordaan

## Standing

- Rank: #1366 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 8.19B all time
- Cost: $4266.65 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 607
- Tracking: 2026-08-11 to 2026-10-26

## Bio

> a still standing smart person will never beat an idiot in motion.

## 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 3 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 2.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 8.5M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 15 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-09

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 50
- Busiest day: 2026-09-29 at 909.0M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 3.01B | $2144.30 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 2.37B | $660.45 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 2.04B | $1065.58 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 484.7M | $132.72 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 249.8M | $197.98 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 28.3M | $60.94 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 10.4M | $2.95 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 2.6M | $1.74 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 193.9K
- Cached input: 8.02B
- Cache write 5m: 55.8M
- Cache write 1h: 80.6M
- Output: 26.9M
- Reasoning output: 8.4M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/markus-jordaan