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title: "Walter Raftus (@walter-raftus)"
description: "Rank #1962 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/walter-raftus
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Walter Raftus (@walter-raftus)

Rank #1962 of 2502 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/walter-raftus

## Standing

- Rank: #1962 of 2502
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 2.72B all time
- Cost: $3598.67 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 339
- Tracking: 2026-07-31 to 2026-10-23

## 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 | 3.0M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 2.0 | 2.1 | no | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 27 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $58.61 | <= $315.60 | 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
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-07

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 69
- Busiest day: 2026-08-17 at 278.3M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 1.08B | $1003.59 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 684.4M | $1113.97 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 677.0M | $1213.99 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 193.6M | $225.74 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 45.8M | $13.47 |
| codex | gpt-5.6-sol | 29.5M | $21.35 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-7 | 970.9K | $6.42 |
| claude | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 187.2K | $0.13 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 35.1M
- Cached input: 2.59B
- Cache write 5m: 11.7M
- Cache write 1h: 64.0M
- Output: 11.0M
- Reasoning output: 2.7M

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/walter-raftus