Monthly report

AI coding spend — September 2025

What 145 developers actually spent on AI coding in September 2025, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$142,169

API-equivalent

Active developers

145

30 days with activity

Tokens

114.5B

92% cache reads

Median developer

$163

top 10% above $2,089

Spend by tool

Claude2 devs$22,302 Gemini14 devs$6,597 Codex29 devs$972 Cursor1 devs$85.00 OpenCode2 devs$0.00

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$20,321

gemini-2.5-pro$6,559

claude-sonnet-4-5$1,424

gpt-5-codex$842

gpt-5$128

claude-haiku-4-5$64.00

cursor-aggregate$40.00

gemini-2.5-flash$2.00

Top spenders — September 2025

1iabdulwasey30 days active24.3B$21,809 2toml000623 days active13.0B$10,392 3azamara30 days active2.7B$9,662 4RachidChabane20 days active3.6B$8,099 5juanatsap22 days active3.5B$7,948 6samuelreichor2 days active3.5B$5,952 7tartorodev118 days active1.5B$4,517 8sullyitg18 days active1.5B$4,517 9nikshepsvn8 days active1.6B$4,200 10kimjisub19 days active4.4B$3,732

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — September 2025", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2025-09. 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.