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title: "Tsavo Knott (@tsavo)"
description: "Rank #45 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/tsavo
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Tsavo Knott (@tsavo)

Rank #45 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/tsavo

## Standing

- Rank: #45 of 2502
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 145.02B all time
- Cost: $130695.74 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 12200
- Tracking: 2026-07-29 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 4 axes, measured over the trailing 30 days.

| Axis | Current | Needed | Met | Measures |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| width | 6.0 | 3.1 | yes | agents running at once |
| depth | 12.2M | 10.4M | yes | tokens per session |
| sustain | 29 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $2460.21 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-16
- **two-hands** (level 2 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-10-16
- **whole-task** (level 2 of 3) at 10.0M, earned 2026-10-16

## Milestones

- sessions: 5.0K
- spend: 10.0K
- tokens: 10.00B

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 72
- Busiest day: 2026-10-24 at 19.72B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 72.80B | $33976.34 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 32.53B | $49599.78 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 23.07B | $33750.10 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 6.21B | $5229.68 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 3.57B | $1110.81 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 1.19B | $2150.48 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 1.10B | $1187.07 |
| cursor | gpt-5.6-sol-max | 1.05B | $1223.41 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 814.3M
- Cached input: 138.66B
- Cache write 5m: 3.46B
- Cache write 1h: 1.28B
- Output: 798.7M
- Reasoning output: 393.9M

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