Monthly report

AI coding spend — May 2026

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

Total spend

$1,197,027

API-equivalent

Active developers

397

31 days with activity

Tokens

1.3T

95% cache reads

Median developer

$814

top 10% above $6,902

Spend by tool

Codex238 devs$733,284 Claude208 devs$574,753 Gemini56 devs$46,451 Other3 devs$45,263 Hermes26 devs$32,884 OpenCode43 devs$31,348 pi15 devs$13,545 OpenClaw17 devs$12,979

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

Spend by model

gpt-5.5$592,677

claude-opus-4-7$359,783

claude-opus-4-8$69,727

claude-opus-4-6$27,249

claude-sonnet-4-6$14,805

gpt-5.5$11,349

gpt-5.4$6,439

claude-haiku-4-5$4,379

Top spenders — May 2026

1B-EtterDigital27 days active38.1B$66,604 2coseto612530 days active52.3B$42,133 3ahron052028 days active24.3B$41,861 4panbergco30 days active46.4B$30,924 5heitzek30 days active15.0B$28,274 6azamara31 days active33.4B$27,077 7cjleemesotes31 days active31.8B$25,605 8CJ31 days active31.5B$25,246 9hypler-dev30 days active13.6B$24,409 10jonathan-kellerai24 days active20.6B$21,135

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — May 2026", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2026-05. 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.