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title: "Will Whitelaw (@willw)"
description: "Rank #415 of 2503 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/willw
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Will Whitelaw (@willw)

Rank #415 of 2503 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/willw

## Standing

- Rank: #415 of 2503
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 38.95B all time
- Cost: $21973.68 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 4418
- Tracking: 2026-08-16 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 | 3.5 | 3.1 | yes | agents running at once |
| depth | 9.2M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 4.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 28 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $1016.05 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **two-hands** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-09-14
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-09-14

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 67
- Busiest day: 2026-10-18 at 4.67B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 32.00B | $12608.68 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 2.23B | $3242.62 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 1.84B | $1512.09 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 1.64B | $2895.28 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 990.0M | $1615.60 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 127.5M | $50.99 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 45.8M | $24.20 |
| codex | gpt-6-luna | 28.1M | $0.69 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 53.0M
- Cached input: 37.71B
- Cache write 5m: 843.1M
- Cache write 1h: 206.2M
- Output: 132.3M
- Reasoning output: 38.1M

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