---
title: "Taylor McKnight (@taylordotfyi)"
description: "Rank #465 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/taylordotfyi
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Taylor McKnight (@taylordotfyi)

Rank #465 of 2498 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/taylordotfyi

## Standing

- Rank: #465 of 2498
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 35.29B all time
- Cost: $13181.08 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 931
- Tracking: 2026-08-27 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 3 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 2.0 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 41.8M | 23.3M | yes | tokens per session |
| sustain | 29 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |

## Achievements

- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-19
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-10-19

## Milestones

- sessions: 500
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 41
- Busiest day: 2026-10-08 at 3.54B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 31.14B | $10006.21 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 2.53B | $2071.67 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 1.23B | $753.38 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 255.5M | $194.07 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 48.2M | $112.05 |
| codex | gpt-6.1-sol | 45.0M | $16.08 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 27.8M | $15.62 |
| grok | grok-4.7 | 7.8M | $10.07 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 9.2M
- Cached input: 34.77B
- Cache write 5m: 138.5M
- Cache write 1h: 289.0M
- Output: 83.2M
- Reasoning output: 42.0M

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