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title: "Nima Gardideh (@nimsical)"
description: "Rank #483 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/nimsical
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Nima Gardideh (@nimsical)

Rank #483 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/nimsical

## Standing

- Rank: #483 of 2502
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 33.98B all time
- Cost: $23493.74 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 7328
- Tracking: 2026-09-10 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 | 2.5 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 3.9M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 12.0 | 6.0 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 27 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $189.41 | <= $104.48 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 2 of 3) at $300, earned 2026-10-04
- **run-01**, earned 2026-10-04
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-10-04
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-10-04

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 42
- Busiest day: 2026-09-17 at 4.10B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 13.61B | $9248.39 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 10.56B | $7940.62 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 4.50B | $1279.82 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 2.32B | $3660.97 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 2.20B | $921.91 |
| pi | Beam-1.0-501B-A23B | 339.9M | $5.80 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 187.8M | $343.87 |
| codex | gpt-6-sol | 165.4M | $47.70 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 26.7M
- Cached input: 32.49B
- Cache write 5m: 1.11B
- Cache write 1h: 217.1M
- Output: 130.8M
- Reasoning output: 47.7M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/nimsical