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title: "Michael Sanford (@michael-sanford)"
description: "Rank #201 of 2505 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/michael-sanford
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Michael Sanford (@michael-sanford)

Rank #201 of 2505 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

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

## Standing

- Rank: #201 of 2505
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 67.06B all time
- Cost: $44920.24 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 5543
- 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 | 1.0 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 9.9M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 36.5 | 6.0 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $80.00 | <= $104.48 | yes | 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
- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 83
- Busiest day: 2026-10-18 at 9.17B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 28.64B | $13498.14 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 22.87B | $15794.42 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 7.46B | $7029.36 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 4.63B | $6647.15 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 1.79B | $356.37 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 895.2M | $937.44 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 258.4M | $134.71 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 235.6M | $189.49 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 41.6M
- Cached input: 65.55B
- Cache write 5m: 640.6M
- Cache write 1h: 636.3M
- Output: 185.1M
- Reasoning output: 45.3M

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