Monthly report

AI coding spend — February 2026

What 377 developers actually spent on AI coding in February 2026, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$273,351

API-equivalent

Active developers

377

28 days with activity

Tokens

433.5B

95% cache reads

Median developer

$163

top 10% above $1,693

Spend by tool

Claude34 devs$102,273 Codex105 devs$42,708 Gemini44 devs$16,090 OpenClaw26 devs$6,142 OpenCode32 devs$5,463 Cursor3 devs$2,236 Kimi5 devs$426 Other1 devs$244

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$64,354

gpt-5.3-codex$28,921

claude-sonnet-4-6$8,400

claude-opus-4-7$4,042

claude-opus-4-8$3,525

claude-opus-4-5$3,251

claude-haiku-4-5$2,979

gpt-5.2-codex$2,595

Top spenders — February 2026

1iabdulwasey28 days active23.8B$20,130 2chsong128 days active26.4B$20,049 3coseto612516 days active17.8B$14,392 4ismael-joffroy-chandoutis22 days active14.1B$11,358 5web3dev133728 days active23.7B$7,495 6cmc-veup15 days active9.1B$7,104 7kwondoeon15 days active9.6B$5,922 8Dexploarer27 days active9.8B$5,764 9scttbnsn22 days active8.7B$5,437 10maxghenis22 days active6.7B$4,633

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — February 2026", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2026-02. 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.