Monthly report

AI coding spend — March 2026

What 328 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

$403,259

API-equivalent

Active developers

328

31 days with activity

Tokens

609.1B

94% cache reads

Median developer

$270

top 10% above $2,845

Spend by tool

Claude38 devs$158,708 Codex119 devs$68,721 OpenCode29 devs$14,755 OpenClaw24 devs$6,285 Gemini34 devs$6,183 Other2 devs$6,046 Cursor2 devs$2,397 pi2 devs$2,063

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$125,359

gpt-5.4$49,322

gpt-5.3-codex$10,799

claude-sonnet-4-6$7,930

claude-haiku-4-5$3,529

gpt-5.4$1,698

gpt-5.2$1,605

claude-sonnet-4-5$1,540

Top spenders — March 2026

1ismael-joffroy-chandoutis31 days active46.9B$45,180 2chsong131 days active38.2B$29,092 3iabdulwasey31 days active23.1B$19,838 4web3dev133731 days active24.3B$12,006 5cmc-veup23 days active14.1B$10,992 6Seungwoo32130 days active16.6B$10,950 7B-EtterDigital31 days active15.1B$10,278 8Georgios Pilitsoglou31 days active13.6B$7,356 9jbaldwinroberts18 days active8.2B$6,613 10stevehuang011531 days active10.6B$6,240

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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.