Monthly report

AI coding spend — May 2026

What 358 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

$1,167,515

API-equivalent

Active developers

358

31 days with activity

Tokens

1.3T

95% cache reads

Median developer

$967

top 10% above $8,056

Spend by tool

Codex210 devs$693,530 Claude197 devs$580,846 Other3 devs$45,263 Gemini50 devs$41,440 Hermes26 devs$33,351 OpenCode41 devs$30,198 pi14 devs$13,544 OpenClaw15 devs$13,079

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$557,728

claude-opus-4-7$357,297

claude-opus-4-8$70,890

claude-opus-4-6$37,785

claude-sonnet-4-6$13,071

gpt-5.5$11,349

gpt-5.4$6,217

claude-haiku-4-5$4,201

Top spenders — May 2026

1B-EtterDigital27 days active60.5B$42,576 2coseto612530 days active52.3B$42,133 3ahron052028 days active24.3B$41,861 4panbergco30 days active46.4B$30,924 5heitzek30 days active15.0B$28,273 6mattw9031 days active37.6B$27,154 7azamara31 days active33.4B$27,077 8cjleemesotes31 days active31.8B$25,605 9CJ31 days active31.5B$25,246 10hypler-dev30 days active13.6B$24,409

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