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title: "Reuben Mereku (@yao-mereku)"
description: "Rank #2253 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/yao-mereku
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Reuben Mereku (@yao-mereku)

Rank #2253 of 2499 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/yao-mereku

## Standing

- Rank: #2253 of 2499
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 849.6M all time
- Cost: $572.74 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 170
- Tracking: 2026-08-12 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 | 2.8M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| output | 10.0 | 2.1 | yes | agent PRs merged per week |
| sustain | 21 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $9.04 | <= $315.60 | yes | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Milestones

- spend: 100
- tokens: 100.0M

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 48
- Busiest day: 2026-10-02 at 129.6M tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 341.7M | $143.52 |
| cursor | claude-opus-5-thinking-high | 166.9M | $160.04 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 84.3M | $22.87 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 68.3M | $120.83 |
| cursor | cursor-grok-4.6-high-fast | 37.8M | $57.59 |
| cursor | gpt-5.6-sol-medium | 28.2M | $23.68 |
| cursor | moonshotai/kimi-k3 | 23.1M | $6.39 |
| codex | gpt-reserve | 22.3M | $0.61 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 16.0M
- Cached input: 813.8M
- Cache write 5m: 11.7M
- Cache write 1h: 4.0M
- Output: 4.0M
- Reasoning output: 583.4K

Published voluntarily by the account holder. Source: https://paradev.com/yao-mereku