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title: "Norman Zuo (@norman-zuo)"
description: "Rank #1735 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/norman-zuo
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Norman Zuo (@norman-zuo)

Rank #1735 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/norman-zuo

## Standing

- Rank: #1735 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 4.41B all time
- Cost: $4576.57 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 698
- Tracking: 2026-08-14 to 2026-10-24

## 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 5 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 7.4M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 1.5 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 12 | 17 | no | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $73.97 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 1 of 3) at $750, earned 2026-09-12
- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-12
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-12

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 46
- Busiest day: 2026-08-29 at 366.9M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 1.88B | $1645.51 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 877.7M | $492.03 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 826.4M | $1751.18 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 519.5M | $458.27 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 83.8M | $130.87 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 81.7M | $17.90 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 67.3M | $33.21 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 36.8M | $17.73 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 7.5M
- Cached input: 4.25B
- Cache write 5m: 6.6M
- Cache write 1h: 133.0M
- Output: 14.3M
- Reasoning output: 5.3M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/norman-zuo