Monthly report

AI coding spend — January 2026

What 357 developers actually spent on AI coding in January 2026, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$234,567

API-equivalent

Active developers

357

31 days with activity

Tokens

315.2B

94% cache reads

Median developer

$117

top 10% above $1,804

Spend by tool

Claude25 devs$57,957 Codex56 devs$9,359 Gemini31 devs$6,514 OpenCode26 devs$5,204 Other1 devs$4,433 OpenClaw9 devs$893 Droid1 devs$75.00 Cursor1 devs$43.00

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$26,952

claude-opus-4-1$16,626

claude-opus-4-5$7,583

gpt-5.2-codex$4,879

glm-4.7$3,883

claude-opus-4-5$2,925

gpt-5.2$2,015

claude-sonnet-4-5$1,800

Top spenders — January 2026

1iabdulwasey30 days active29.5B$26,677 2chsong131 days active7.8B$17,055 3janiorvalle29 days active12.5B$9,171 4azamara27 days active17.9B$4,433 5jeong-sik10 days active5.3B$4,151 6kwondoeon29 days active5.5B$4,118 7Steve Huang31 days active5.6B$4,046 8popstick26 days active5.0B$3,596 9Ai8626 days active3.9B$3,198 10DHxWhy27 days active3.5B$3,167

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — January 2026", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2026-01. 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.