---
title: "Mingxing Zhao (@mingxing-zhao)"
description: "Rank #1712 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/mingxing-zhao
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Mingxing Zhao (@mingxing-zhao)

Rank #1712 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/mingxing-zhao

## Standing

- Rank: #1712 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 4.58B all time
- Cost: $5693.59 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1002
- Tracking: 2026-07-29 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 4 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 1.9M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 28 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $1416.57 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 85
- Busiest day: 2026-09-05 at 679.5M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 2.71B | $3253.99 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 576.9M | $503.64 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 536.5M | $519.51 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 297.8M | $577.46 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 200.9M | $293.14 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 158.1M | $471.28 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 35.0M | $50.87 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 32.5M | $19.09 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 376.7M
- Cached input: 3.85B
- Cache write 5m: 339.3M
- Cache write 1h: 0
- Output: 16.9M
- Reasoning output: 2.5M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/mingxing-zhao