Monthly report

AI coding spend — September 2026

What 236 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

$4,395,725

API-equivalent

Active developers

236

30 days with activity

Tokens

6.6T

97% cache reads

Median developer

$6,033

top 10% above $29,325

Spend by tool

Claude193 devs$4,030,362 Codex180 devs$3,393,831 OpenCode40 devs$159,640 Hermes20 devs$139,448 Grok18 devs$131,531 pi14 devs$97,116 Antigravity25 devs$70,845 Kimi6 devs$46,041

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$2,079,901

claude-opus-5-5$708,002

gpt-6-astra$582,373

claude-fable-5-1$355,913

gpt-5.6-sol$231,198

claude-sonnet-5$123,417

claude-opus-4-8$65,966

claude-fable-5$56,016

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 active64.6B$69,150 6B-EtterDigital28 days active102.0B$66,409 7BrannLee2225 days active85.3B$63,016 8ismael-joffroy-chandoutis30 days active78.5B$59,410 9dprvda28 days active46.9B$55,528 10eyhtbfgb30 days active111.9B$54,194

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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.