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title: "Carey McLean (@theappchick)"
description: "Rank #618 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/theappchick
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Carey McLean (@theappchick)

Rank #618 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

URL: https://paradev.com/theappchick

## Standing

- Rank: #618 of 2501
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 26.10B all time
- Cost: $15008.47 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 2037
- Tracking: 2026-07-30 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 | 1.8 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 9.3M | 23.3M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 6.5 | 6.0 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 26 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $81.73 | <= $104.48 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 1 of 3) at $750, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 72
- Busiest day: 2026-09-18 at 2.06B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 16.45B | $11374.13 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 3.99B | $1171.80 |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 2.45B | $1065.74 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 2.41B | $754.75 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-6 | 515.5M | $440.75 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 160.3M | $132.80 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-4-6 | 83.4M | $58.13 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 43.4M | $8.96 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 631.9K
- Cached input: 25.57B
- Cache write 5m: 147.9M
- Cache write 1h: 306.4M
- Output: 68.2M
- Reasoning output: 13.5M

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