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title: "Sam Macharia (@sam-macharia)"
description: "Rank #2009 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/sam-macharia
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Sam Macharia (@sam-macharia)

Rank #2009 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/sam-macharia

## Standing

- Rank: #2009 of 2501
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 2.34B all time
- Cost: $1751.25 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 359
- Tracking: 2026-08-06 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 | 5.3M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 21 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- spend: 100
- tokens: 100.0M

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 57
- Busiest day: 2026-09-23 at 127.4M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 964.1M | $717.21 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 924.2M | $639.82 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 325.0M | $324.86 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 108.6M | $44.13 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 17.6M | $24.42 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 5.0M | $0.76 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 244.6K | $0.06 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 89.6K
- Cached input: 2.29B
- Cache write 5m: 7.5M
- Cache write 1h: 42.2M
- Output: 8.1M
- Reasoning output: 2.1M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/sam-macharia