Monthly report

AI coding spend — July 2026

What 362 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

$4,402,472

API-equivalent

Active developers

362

31 days with activity

Tokens

4.8T

95% cache reads

Median developer

$4,911

top 10% above $26,913

Spend by tool

Claude317 devs$3,600,015 Codex234 devs$2,733,233 Hermes36 devs$248,966 OpenCode46 devs$161,704 Other2 devs$151,590 Kimi18 devs$64,863 pi10 devs$36,927 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$1,614,642

claude-fable-5$1,065,698

claude-opus-4-8$814,131

claude-opus-5$398,308

gpt-5.5$270,471

claude-sonnet-5$93,885

claude-opus-4-6$19,897

gpt-5.6-terra$18,029

Top spenders — July 2026

1Abdulhalim-bit31 days active260.5B$186,996 2datafndr18 days active111.7B$143,585 3nbswgn100k-boop31 days active163.3B$136,499 4B-EtterDigital31 days active164.6B$132,153 5azamara31 days active161.6B$128,900 6KabirAcharya14 days active167.5B$120,652 7dprvda31 days active121.0B$98,810 8johnsilvavlogs31 days active130.5B$86,170 9CiprianSpiridon31 days active108.2B$82,683 10StartupBros31 days active48.3B$71,654

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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.