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title: "Zaid Arshia Choudhary (@zmc)"
description: "Rank #116 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1."
canonical: https://paradev.com/zmc
last-updated: 2026-10-26
---

# Zaid Arshia Choudhary (@zmc)

Rank #116 of 2501 on the Paradev leaderboard, tier 1.

URL: https://paradev.com/zmc

## Standing

- Rank: #116 of 2501
- Tier: Button pusher
- Tokens: 88.99B all time
- Cost: $47517.51 API-equivalent
- Sessions: 9152
- 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 | 5.0 | 3.1 | yes | agents running at once |
| depth | 7.8M | 10.4M | no | tokens per session |
| sustain | 30 | 17 | yes | active days in the last 30 |
| cost | $11742.32 | <= $315.60 | no | USD per merged PR, lower is better |

## Achievements

- **plant-floor** (level 1 of 3) at 10, earned 2026-10-06
- **run-01**, earned 2026-10-06
- **two-hands** (level 2 of 3) at 30, earned 2026-10-06
- **whole-task** (level 1 of 3) at 2.5M, earned 2026-10-06

## Milestones

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

## Contributions

- Active days in the last year: 74
- Busiest day: 2026-10-04 at 3.72B tokens

## Models

| Provider | Model | Tokens | Cost |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| claude | claude-opus-5-5 | 40.18B | $15560.48 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5 | 12.10B | $3119.18 |
| claude | claude-sonnet-5-5 | 9.54B | $3498.80 |
| claude | claude-opus-5 | 8.57B | $5730.22 |
| codex | gpt-6-astra | 5.15B | $8453.97 |
| claude | claude-opus-4-8 | 4.00B | $2859.32 |
| claude | claude-fable-5 | 3.18B | $4236.20 |
| claude | claude-fable-5-1 | 2.88B | $2123.49 |

## Token breakdown

- Uncached input: 356.3M
- Cached input: 86.34B
- Cache write 5m: 1.62B
- Cache write 1h: 448.3M
- Output: 231.7M
- Reasoning output: 65.8M

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