Monthly report

AI coding spend — December 2025

What 275 developers actually spent on AI coding in December 2025, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$179,232

API-equivalent

Active developers

275

31 days with activity

Tokens

226.5B

93% cache reads

Median developer

$140

top 10% above $1,788

Spend by tool

Claude11 devs$41,743 Codex67 devs$8,617 Gemini31 devs$6,101 OpenCode10 devs$2,619 Cursor1 devs$54.00 Qwen3 devs$29.00 Other1 devs$5.00 Goose1 devs$2.00

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$27,479

claude-opus-4-1$8,718

gpt-5.2$2,083

claude-sonnet-4-5$1,653

claude-opus-4-5$1,610

gpt-5.2-codex$1,447

gpt-5.1-codex-max$1,101

claude-sonnet-4-5$880

Top spenders — December 2025

1iabdulwasey31 days active29.0B$26,242 2chsong131 days active4.1B$8,958 3Phonedolly30 days active6.5B$5,719 4glamp31 days active7.0B$4,552 5buremba20 days active5.6B$4,030 6adamstankiewicz26 days active5.2B$3,849 7Jean29 days active4.8B$3,736 8jeong-sik16 days active4.0B$3,559 9iplanwebsites30 days active4.5B$3,358 10Waveful21 days active4.6B$3,319

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — December 2025", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2025-12. 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.