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AI coding spend — September 2026

What 89 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. This month is still in progress — numbers grow as submissions come in.

Total spend

$427,746

API-equivalent

Active developers

8 days with activity

Tokens

564.3B

97% cache reads

Median developer

$2,516

top 10% above $13,045

Spend by tool

Claude74 devs$381,172 Codex67 devs$248,964 Grok7 devs$45,302 Hermes6 devs$28,133 pi6 devs$21,048 Kimi1 devs$19,365 OpenCode4 devs$15,198 Droid1 devs$14,730

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$151,862

claude-fable-5-1$88,932

gpt-5.6-sol$75,152

claude-opus-4-8$27,673

gpt-6-astra$27,565

claude-fable-5$16,708

claude-sonnet-5$14,363

claude-opus-5$7,387

Top spenders — September 2026

1B-EtterDigital6 days active45.7B$29,681 2StartupBros6 days active30.0B$29,307 3raihaan1238 days active18.5B$19,680 4muqsitnawaz7 days active30.7B$19,617 5mattw904 days active15.0B$16,215 6yunsung-song_ktdev8 days active22.6B$15,613 7eyhtbfgb7 days active27.1B$14,903 8ismael-joffroy-chandoutis7 days active14.7B$14,846 9PursuitOfDataScience7 days active19.8B$13,389 10YoungMoneyInvestments6 days active24.9B$12,958

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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.