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title: "Sam McLean (@sammymac)"
description: "Rank #1620 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/sammymac
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Sam McLean (@sammymac)

Rank #1620 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/sammymac

## Standing

- Rank: #1620 of 2498
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 5.40B all time
- Cost: $4640.26 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 1625
- Tracking: 2026-09-03 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 | 2.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 3.1M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 29 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-18
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-18

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 46
- Busiest day: 2026-10-16 at 815.5M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.70B | $2765.47 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 1.37B | $736.13 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 1.01B | $413.51 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 683.4M | $129.31 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 274.0M | $399.48 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 135.4M | $69.14 |
| codex | gpt-6-luna | 100.4M | $1.52 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 89.6M | $96.94 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 34.0M
- Cached input: 5.08B
- Cache write 5m: 182.3M
- Cache write 1h: 76.1M
- Output: 29.2M
- Reasoning output: 12.5M

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