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title: "Nicolai Austad (@nicolai-austad)"
description: "Rank #1033 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/nicolai-austad
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Nicolai Austad (@nicolai-austad)

Rank #1033 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/nicolai-austad

## Standing

- Rank: #1033 of 2498
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 13.81B all time
- Cost: $9972.54 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1460
- Tracking: 2026-08-10 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 | 2.0 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 7.5M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 6.0 | 6.0 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $89.36 | <= $104.48 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Milestones

- tokens: 10.0M

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 77
- Busiest day: 2026-09-16 at 634.6M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 8.31B | $5943.94 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 4.35B | $2827.11 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 904.0M | $862.04 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 158.7M | $301.17 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 85.7M | $28.89 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 3.8M | $8.38 |
| codex | gpt-6-luna | 1.7M | $0.08 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 553.7K | $0.41 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 968.8K
- Cached input: 13.52B
- Cache write 5m: 46.4M
- Cache write 1h: 204.9M
- Output: 47.1M
- Reasoning output: 15.9M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/nicolai-austad