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title: "Neal Zhu (@neal-zhu)"
description: "Rank #1020 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/neal-zhu
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Neal Zhu (@neal-zhu)

Rank #1020 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/neal-zhu

## Standing

- Rank: #1020 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 13.98B all time
- Cost: $8024.83 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 885
- 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 3 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 4.6M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 20 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 62
- Busiest day: 2026-08-21 at 5.13B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 6.09B | $5050.71 |
| codex | unknown | 2.57B | $65.23 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 2.29B | $1493.69 |
| pi | kimi-k3 | 1.09B | $541.59 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-luna | 658.7M | $19.50 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 336.3M | $134.71 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 285.0M | $154.31 |
| pi | claude-opus-4-8 | 175.4M | $114.23 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 235.1M
- Cached input: 13.48B
- Cache write 5m: 58.3M
- Cache write 1h: 174.8M
- Output: 37.0M
- Reasoning output: 8.1M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/neal-zhu