---
title: "Photon (@photon)"
description: "Rank #845 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/photon
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Photon (@photon)

Rank #845 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/photon

## Standing

- Rank: #845 of 2499
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 18.01B all time
- Cost: $14340.30 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1416
- Tracking: 2026-08-08 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 | 10.8M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| sustain | 29 | 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: 1.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 72
- Busiest day: 2026-10-04 at 2.62B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 8.90B | $6077.10 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 4.02B | $2326.31 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 2.22B | $1960.37 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 865.8M | $1449.42 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 754.4M | $1273.00 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 571.7M | $1038.80 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 383.5M | $76.91 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 130.2M | $45.03 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 136.7M
- Cached input: 17.27B
- Cache write 5m: 344.9M
- Cache write 1h: 172.7M
- Output: 95.2M
- Reasoning output: 45.4M

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