Monthly report

AI coding spend — August 2026

What 227 developers actually spent on AI coding in August 2026, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$3,331,729

API-equivalent

Active developers

227

31 days with activity

Tokens

4.3T

97% cache reads

Median developer

$5,969

top 10% above $33,473

Spend by tool

Claude199 devs$2,961,380 Codex154 devs$1,961,244 Hermes18 devs$189,592 Grok13 devs$145,970 pi14 devs$92,759 Kimi9 devs$92,163 Other3 devs$59,859 Droid1 devs$51,932

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

Spend by model

claude-opus-5$1,209,982

gpt-5.6-sol$994,113

claude-fable-5$689,090

claude-opus-4-8$126,063

claude-sonnet-5$96,574

claude-opus-5$38,682

gpt-5.5$34,884

openai.gpt-5.6-sol$24,275

Top spenders — August 2026

1Abdulhalim-bit31 days active318.6B$223,948 2B-EtterDigital31 days active190.1B$150,503 3StartupBros31 days active120.3B$136,860 4dprvda31 days active154.5B$116,819 5nbswgn100k-boop31 days active147.7B$106,199 6BrannLee2231 days active106.2B$87,808 7muqsitnawaz31 days active118.6B$80,724 8mattw9031 days active78.5B$70,499 9panbergco31 days active84.7B$67,926 10eyhtbfgb31 days active110.5B$65,392

← July 2026 September 2026 →All-time stats

Be in next month's report

One command reads your local logs and adds your usage to the board — only totals are submitted, never code or prompts. viberank-cli autosubmit keeps you counted every month.

npx viberank-cli

Already on the board? Your personal recap lives at /wrapped/2026-08/{your-username} — or find it on your profile.

Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — August 2026", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2026-08. 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.