Monthly report

AI coding spend — May 2025

What 9 developers actually spent on AI coding in May 2025, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$20,653

API-equivalent

Active developers

31 days with activity

Tokens

15.5B

97% cache reads

Median developer

$301

top 10% above $7,994

Spend by tool

Claude1 devs$8,993 Cursor2 devs$20.00

A day's spend counts toward every tool active that day, so tool figures can sum past the total.

Spend by model

claude-opus-4-6$8,290

claude-sonnet-4-5$681

claude-haiku-4-5$22.00

cursor-aggregate$20.00

gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06$0.00

claude-4-opus-thinking$0.00

Top spenders — May 2025

1iabdulwasey31 days active10.4B$8,993 2sigridjineth31 days active3.2B$7,745 3onlyabrak8 days active1.5B$2,949 4drourke23 days active258.2M$635 5georgecollier-nqu2 days active158.9M$301 6YoungMoneyInvestments28 days active15.9M$20.00 7saramaebee2 days active12.2M$9.00 8panzacoder1 days active2.0M$2.00 9benpalmer13 days active15.9M$0.00

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — May 2025", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2025-05. Costs are API-equivalent values computed by ccusage from model list prices; developers on flat-rate subscriptions pay less. Verified and unverified submissions included; flagged submissions excluded.