Monthly report

AI coding spend — February 2026

What 359 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

$253,900

API-equivalent

Active developers

359

28 days with activity

Tokens

402.1B

94% cache reads

Median developer

$158

top 10% above $1,702

Spend by tool

Claude28 devs$87,362 Codex92 devs$37,970 Gemini38 devs$6,142 OpenClaw25 devs$6,134 OpenCode29 devs$5,361 Cursor2 devs$2,140 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$60,430

gpt-5.3-codex$25,366

claude-sonnet-4-6$7,439

claude-haiku-4-5$2,781

gpt-5.2-codex$2,471

claude-opus-4-5$2,338

gpt-5.2$2,019

claude-sonnet-4-5$1,607

Top spenders — February 2026

1iabdulwasey28 days active23.8B$20,130 2chsong128 days active26.4B$20,049 3ismael-joffroy-chandoutis22 days active14.1B$11,358 4web3dev133728 days active23.7B$7,495 5cmc-veup15 days active9.1B$7,104 6kwondoeon15 days active9.6B$5,922 7Dexploarer27 days active9.8B$5,764 8scttbnsn22 days active8.7B$5,437 9maxghenis22 days active6.7B$4,633 10Shun-toda26 days active4.2B$4,532

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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.