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title: "Thomas Wilks (@thomas-wilks)"
description: "Rank #1121 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2."
canonical: https://paradev.com/thomas-wilks
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Thomas Wilks (@thomas-wilks)

Rank #1121 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 2.

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

## Standing

- Rank: #1121 of 2499
- Tier: Operator
- Tokens: 11.94B all time
- Cost: $7760.03 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 356
- Tracking: 2026-08-02 to 2026-09-11

## 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 | 1.0 | 5.5 | no | agents running at once |
| depth | 36.1M | 23.3M | yes | tokens per session |
| output | 4.5 | 6.0 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 24 | 24 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $172.38 | <= $104.48 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **efficient** (level 2 of 3) at $300, earned 2026-09-07
- **ship-it** (level 2 of 4) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-07
- **whole-task** (level 3 of 3) at 40.0M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

- sessions: 100
- spend: 1.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 34
- Busiest day: 2026-08-18 at 1.15B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 11.38B | $7356.85 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 553.7M | $400.08 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-7 | 2.7M | $3.10 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 325.1K
- Cached input: 11.77B
- Cache write 5m: 17.1M
- Cache write 1h: 131.3M
- Output: 18.1M
- Reasoning output: 3.8M

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