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AI coding spend — August 2026

What 130 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. This month is still in progress — numbers grow as submissions come in.

Total spend

$1,015,569

API-equivalent

Active developers

130

18 days with activity

Tokens

1.2T

96% cache reads

Median developer

$3,333

top 10% above $21,574

Spend by tool

Claude111 devs$942,603 Codex85 devs$600,977 Hermes12 devs$75,437 pi6 devs$32,265 Other1 devs$21,905 OpenCode12 devs$11,945 Copilot2 devs$8,037 Grok2 devs$4,912

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$349,731

gpt-5.6-sol$282,031

claude-fable-5$251,109

claude-opus-4-8$43,947

claude-sonnet-5$28,533

gpt-5.5$16,965

claude-opus-5$14,727

gpt-5.6-terra$6,187

Top spenders — August 2026

1nbswgn100k-boop17 days active100.1B$71,016 2B-EtterDigital17 days active87.9B$70,446 3StartupBros16 days active44.8B$47,502 4panbergco18 days active42.8B$37,355 5Abdulhalim-bit17 days active45.8B$34,677 6dprvda13 days active49.5B$34,060 7Brannon Lee8 days active34.4B$28,936 8ismael-joffroy-chandoutis18 days active28.9B$28,918 9raihaan12318 days active30.1B$28,628 10cmc-veup14 days active18.8B$24,579

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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.