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AI coding usage data

Most published figures for what AI coding costs are vendor estimates. These are measurements — token counts and API-equivalent costs computed by ccusage from developers' own local session logs, then submitted here. Free to use, CC BY 4.0, no key required.

Anthropic reports $150–$250 per developer per month. Across 1,195 developers who measure their own usage, the median is $1,505/month and 86% exceed $250.

Key figures

Developers
1.3K
Tracked spend
$17.0M
Tokens
20.3T
Cache reads
96%

Monthly spend per developer

PercentileAPI-equivalent / month
p10$181
p25$519
median$1,505
p75$3,562
p90$8,386
p99$35,114

n = 1,195 developers · mean $3,716 · top decile holds 55% of all tracked spend

API

One endpoint, no authentication, CORS open, refreshed hourly. Returns site totals, the full spend distribution, per-tool and per-model breakdowns, and a monthly series.

curl https://www.viberank.app/api/stats

Every response carries a meta.citation string and the methodology caveats below, so anything you publish from it can be attributed without extra work.

Cite this

Licensed CC BY 4.0 — use it commercially, republish the charts, quote the medians. Attribution to viberank.app is the only condition. If you're writing about AI coding costs and want a cut of the data we don't publish here, ask.

Methodology and limits

  • —Figures are API-equivalent cost computed by ccusage from local session logs, not amounts actually billed. Most developers on the board pay a flat subscription, so this measures what their usage would cost at API list prices.
  • —The population self-selects: these are developers who chose to measure their own usage and publish it, which skews heavier than the average Claude Code user.
  • —One row per developer (their highest-cost submission), normalised to a 30-day month. Submissions covering fewer than 7 days are excluded because they extrapolate to meaningless monthly figures.
  • —Submissions are validated server-side; only aggregate totals are accepted, never code or prompts. Accounts signed in with GitHub carry a verified badge.

Related: the full cost write-up, site-wide stats, and monthly reports.