Monthly report

AI coding spend — April 2026

What 397 developers actually spent on AI coding in April 2026, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$647,415

API-equivalent

Active developers

397

30 days with activity

Tokens

901.2B

95% cache reads

Median developer

$408

top 10% above $4,738

Spend by tool

Codex202 devs$245,371 Claude103 devs$201,182 Gemini51 devs$23,423 OpenCode44 devs$23,115 OpenClaw25 devs$11,822 pi12 devs$9,753 Other2 devs$8,442 Hermes13 devs$5,825

A day's spend counts toward every tool active that day, so tool figures can sum past the total.

Spend by model

gpt-5.4$101,620

gpt-5.5$91,733

claude-opus-4-6$88,527

claude-opus-4-7$73,540

claude-sonnet-4-6$8,978

claude-opus-4-8$6,307

claude-haiku-4-5$4,671

gpt-5.4$3,680

Top spenders — April 2026

1ismael-joffroy-chandoutis29 days active40.7B$30,484 2coseto612524 days active30.6B$25,468 3B-EtterDigital28 days active22.3B$24,708 4chsong130 days active24.4B$17,915 5Lego400523 days active17.3B$13,528 6ercichen1228 days active4.0B$12,522 7DHxWhy29 days active18.2B$12,453 8muqsitnawaz27 days active10.7B$11,345 9dprvda30 days active19.0B$11,263 10dpmango26 days active13.5B$9,721

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — April 2026", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2026-04. 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.