Monthly report

AI coding spend — March 2026

What 374 developers actually spent on AI coding in March 2026, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$440,378

API-equivalent

Active developers

374

31 days with activity

Tokens

665.5B

94% cache reads

Median developer

$243

top 10% above $2,852

Spend by tool

Claude45 devs$174,495 Codex154 devs$89,804 OpenCode36 devs$15,168 Gemini48 devs$15,034 OpenClaw27 devs$7,807 Other2 devs$6,046 pi4 devs$2,694 Cursor3 devs$2,608

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$121,487

gpt-5.4$65,750

gpt-5.3-codex$12,743

claude-sonnet-4-6$11,321

claude-opus-4-7$7,280

claude-opus-4-8$6,349

claude-haiku-4-5$3,815

gpt-5.2$2,357

Top spenders — March 2026

1ismael-joffroy-chandoutis31 days active46.9B$45,180 2chsong131 days active38.2B$29,092 3coseto612526 days active30.9B$25,645 4web3dev133731 days active24.3B$12,006 5cmc-veup23 days active14.1B$10,992 6Seungwoo32130 days active16.6B$10,950 7B-EtterDigital31 days active13.4B$10,947 8Georgios Pilitsoglou31 days active13.6B$7,356 9jbaldwinroberts18 days active8.2B$6,613 10iabdulwasey31 days active7.1B$6,423

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — March 2026", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2026-03. 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.