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title: "Thomas Kim (@thomas-kim)"
description: "Rank #1932 of 2505 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/thomas-kim
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Thomas Kim (@thomas-kim)

Rank #1932 of 2505 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/thomas-kim

## Standing

- Rank: #1932 of 2505
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 3.00B all time
- Cost: $2038.07 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 396
- Tracking: 2026-08-02 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 5 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 1.0 | 3.1 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 6.0M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 8.5 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 20 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $33.49 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **ship-it** (level 1 of 4) at 1, earned 2026-09-19

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 34
- Busiest day: 2026-10-16 at 425.2M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 759.2M | $600.22 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 739.6M | $291.11 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 645.6M | $539.14 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 533.3M | $386.36 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 252.9M | $76.09 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 65.1M | $143.68 |
| claude | claude-haiku-5-5 | 1.0M | $1.08 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 374.6K | $0.38 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 84.2K
- Cached input: 2.92B
- Cache write 5m: 13.5M
- Cache write 1h: 51.3M
- Output: 10.6M
- Reasoning output: 2.2M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/thomas-kim