Monthly report

AI coding spend — March 2026

What 356 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

$447,840

API-equivalent

Active developers

356

31 days with activity

Tokens

678.7B

94% cache reads

Median developer

$274

top 10% above $2,848

Spend by tool

Claude44 devs$185,870 Codex142 devs$86,863 OpenCode35 devs$15,114 Gemini43 devs$14,839 OpenClaw25 devs$6,165 Other2 devs$6,046 Cursor3 devs$2,608 pi3 devs$2,064

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$133,466

gpt-5.4$63,979

gpt-5.3-codex$12,358

claude-sonnet-4-6$9,672

claude-opus-4-7$7,280

claude-opus-4-8$6,349

claude-haiku-4-5$3,789

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 4iabdulwasey31 days active23.1B$19,838 5web3dev133731 days active24.3B$12,006 6cmc-veup23 days active14.1B$10,992 7Seungwoo32130 days active16.6B$10,950 8B-EtterDigital31 days active15.1B$10,278 9Georgios Pilitsoglou31 days active13.6B$7,356 10jbaldwinroberts18 days active8.2B$6,613

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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.