Monthly report

AI coding spend — September 2026

What 260 developers actually spent on AI coding in September 2026, measured from real ccusage data across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and every other tracked agent.

Total spend

$4,597,304

API-equivalent

Active developers

260

30 days with activity

Tokens

6.8T

97% cache reads

Median developer

$6,091

top 10% above $25,390

Spend by tool

Claude214 devs$4,211,746 Codex194 devs$3,463,979 OpenCode44 devs$177,504 Grok Build21 devs$143,560 Hermes21 devs$139,603 pi15 devs$97,392 Antigravity27 devs$67,009 Openrouter1 devs$45,906

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$2,142,529

claude-opus-5-5$736,987

gpt-6-astra$605,362

claude-fable-5-1$375,558

gpt-5.6-sol$240,090

claude-sonnet-5$136,366

claude-opus-4-8$68,809

claude-fable-5$57,274

Top spenders — September 2026

1metalcorpe30 days active2.5T$1,589,461 2discordwell30 days active266.9B$188,960 3StartupBros30 days active130.7B$114,594 4mattw9030 days active185.5B$102,752 5yunsung-song_ktdev30 days active64.7B$69,692 6B-EtterDigital28 days active102.0B$66,590 7BrannLee2225 days active85.3B$63,016 8dprvda28 days active51.3B$60,917 9ismael-joffroy-chandoutis30 days active78.3B$60,016 10eyhtbfgb30 days active112.0B$54,743

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Numbers cite this page as: Viberank, "AI coding spend — September 2026", https://www.viberank.app/stats/monthly/2026-09. 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.