---
title: "Ricky Vadala (@rickyvadadala)"
description: "Rank #226 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/rickyvadadala
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Ricky Vadala (@rickyvadadala)

Rank #226 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/rickyvadadala

## Standing

- Rank: #226 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 61.91B all time
- Cost: $34747.83 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 9556
- Tracking: 2026-08-25 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 4 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 4.0 | 3.1 | yes | agents running at once |
| depth | 8.6M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 29 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $1297.98 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-23
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-23
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-23

## Milestones

- sessions: 1.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 60
- Busiest day: 2026-10-13 at 6.09B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 40.96B | $18591.75 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 16.26B | $13284.13 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 2.99B | $936.07 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 931.3M | $1615.49 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 509.2M | $265.06 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 222.3M | $42.85 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 23.0M | $4.86 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 6.6M | $7.61 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 1.3M
- Cached input: 59.99B
- Cache write 5m: 1.15B
- Cache write 1h: 512.6M
- Output: 252.1M
- Reasoning output: 122.9M

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