Monthly report

AI coding spend — July 2026

What 286 developers actually spent on AI coding in July 2026, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$3,710,260

API-equivalent

Active developers

286

31 days with activity

Tokens

3.9T

96% cache reads

Median developer

$5,597

top 10% above $31,090

Spend by tool

Claude253 devs$3,171,514 Codex184 devs$2,302,153 Hermes32 devs$253,074 Other2 devs$151,590 OpenCode36 devs$146,431 Kimi12 devs$38,071 pi8 devs$36,674 Goose2 devs$27,379

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

Spend by model

gpt-5.6-sol$1,290,829

claude-fable-5$980,588

claude-opus-4-8$763,002

claude-opus-5$271,329

gpt-5.5$224,703

claude-sonnet-5$83,947

claude-opus-4-6$19,303

gpt-5.6-terra$14,402

Top spenders — July 2026

1B-EtterDigital31 days active184.6B$157,728 2datafndr18 days active111.7B$143,585 3nbswgn100k-boop31 days active163.3B$136,499 4azamara31 days active161.6B$128,900 5KabirAcharya14 days active167.5B$120,652 6johnsilvavlogs31 days active130.5B$86,170 7CiprianSpiridon31 days active108.2B$82,683 8charlie2331 days active51.1B$77,032 9StartupBros31 days active48.3B$71,568 10dprvda31 days active77.8B$69,040

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — July 2026", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2026-07. 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.