Monthly report

AI coding spend — April 2026

What 332 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

$576,091

API-equivalent

Active developers

332

30 days with activity

Tokens

836.1B

95% cache reads

Median developer

$547

top 10% above $4,795

Spend by tool

Codex149 devs$195,107 Claude90 devs$169,041 OpenCode36 devs$21,009 Gemini40 devs$12,613 pi11 devs$9,751 OpenClaw19 devs$9,652 Other2 devs$8,442 Hermes11 devs$5,667

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$90,131

gpt-5.4$84,414

gpt-5.5$70,636

claude-opus-4-7$52,673

claude-sonnet-4-6$5,954

claude-haiku-4-5$4,352

gpt-5.4$3,678

gpt-5.5$2,974

Top spenders — April 2026

1ismael-joffroy-chandoutis29 days active40.7B$30,414 2iabdulwasey30 days active23.6B$20,538 3B-EtterDigital28 days active36.8B$18,545 4chsong130 days active24.4B$17,915 5Lego400523 days active17.3B$13,528 6ercichen1228 days active4.0B$12,522 7DHxWhy29 days active18.2B$12,453 8dprvda30 days active19.0B$11,263 9wyattjoh28 days active13.7B$9,383 100xDarkMatter25 days active12.0B$8,840

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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.