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title: "Seth Gholson (@sethgho)"
description: "Rank #342 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/sethgho
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Seth Gholson (@sethgho)

Rank #342 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/sethgho

## Standing

- Rank: #342 of 2498
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 46.11B all time
- Cost: $31240.23 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 5390
- Tracking: 2026-07-28 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. Plant Manager 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 | 3.0 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 7.3M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 3.5 | 6.0 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 30 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $556.72 | <= $104.48 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **day-one**, earned 2026-09-07
- **efficient** (level 1 of 3) at $750, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **thirty** (level 1 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 90
- Busiest day: 2026-09-28 at 1.82B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 19.57B | $11312.29 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 9.41B | $2901.55 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 6.99B | $5264.48 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 5.77B | $8323.93 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 2.07B | $2408.84 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 543.1M | $288.23 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-terra | 520.1M | $159.95 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 379.7M | $96.60 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 40.8M
- Cached input: 44.93B
- Cache write 5m: 465.6M
- Cache write 1h: 565.4M
- Output: 108.1M
- Reasoning output: 34.1M

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