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title: "Michael Litchev (@michael-nightingale)"
description: "Rank #1065 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/michael-nightingale
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Michael Litchev (@michael-nightingale)

Rank #1065 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/michael-nightingale

## Standing

- Rank: #1065 of 2502
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 13.23B all time
- Cost: $10097.90 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1002
- Tracking: 2026-08-09 to 2026-10-20

## 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 | 5.3M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 23 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **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: 100
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 58
- Busiest day: 2026-08-31 at 5.18B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 7.94B | $4365.22 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 1.71B | $2399.36 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 1.12B | $1737.17 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 1.06B | $864.94 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 426.8M | $607.83 |
| codex | unknown | 425.2M | $11.60 |
| codex | codex-auto-review | 309.3M | $9.60 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 237.9M | $101.86 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 296.9M
- Cached input: 12.82B
- Cache write 5m: 14.2M
- Cache write 1h: 55.7M
- Output: 43.1M
- Reasoning output: 16.0M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/michael-nightingale