Monthly report

AI coding spend — January 2026

What 372 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

$251,390

API-equivalent

Active developers

372

31 days with activity

Tokens

343.1B

94% cache reads

Median developer

$117

top 10% above $1,813

Spend by tool

Claude29 devs$70,660 Codex64 devs$12,806 Gemini37 devs$10,015 OpenCode31 devs$5,651 Other1 devs$4,433 OpenClaw9 devs$893 Cursor2 devs$112 Droid1 devs$75.00

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$30,156

claude-opus-4-1$16,626

claude-opus-4-5$8,397

gpt-5.2-codex$5,744

gpt-5.2$4,443

glm-4.7$3,923

claude-opus-4-7$3,420

claude-opus-4-8$2,983

Top spenders — January 2026

1iabdulwasey30 days active29.5B$26,677 2chsong131 days active7.8B$17,055 3coseto612517 days active14.5B$12,065 4janiorvalle29 days active12.5B$9,171 5azamara27 days active17.9B$4,433 6jeong-sik10 days active5.3B$4,151 7kwondoeon29 days active5.5B$4,118 8Steve Huang31 days active5.6B$4,046 9popstick26 days active5.0B$3,596 10Ai8626 days active3.9B$3,198

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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.