claude code vs cursor vs codex — measured, not surveyed
| # | Agent | Devs | Tokens | Share | Top model | Est cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Claude Codeclaude | 100 | 143.12B | 68% | claude-opus-5-5 | $70,578 |
| 02 | Codex CLIcodex | 93 |
npx whoburnedmore CLI reads the local usage logs coding agents already keep and submits daily aggregate token totals per tool and model — never prompts, code or file names. Panel = 163 listed developers who opted in publicly, including subscription usage (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) that API-gateway rankings never see. Costs estimated from public per-token pricing. what we collect · leaderboard · state of AI coding| 52.22B |
| 25% |
| gpt-6-astra |
| $9,232 |
| 03 | Cursorcursor | 30 | 6.52B | 3.1% | grok-bot-cua | $5,369 |
| 04 | OpenCodeopencode | 38 | 4.41B | 2.1% | minimax-m3 | $217 |
| 05 | Hermeshermes | 15 | 2.04B | 1.0% | gpt-6-astra | $7.85 |
| 06 | Pipi | 5 | 536.3M | 0.3% | model-5c8393b7aaa1 | $116 |
| 07 | Openclawopenclaw | 1 | 102.5M | <0.1% | model-95d1f9678305 | $105 |
| 08 | Factory Droiddroid | 1 | 8.2M | <0.1% | claude-opus-4-6 | $11.19 |
| 09 | Openai Apiopenai-api | 1 | 4.5M | <0.1% | gpt-realtime-1.5 | $4.41 |
| 10 | Goosegoose | 1 | 29.3K | <0.1% | glm-5.3-flash | $0 |
| 11 | Kimi CLIkimi | 1 | 28.5K | <0.1% | k3 | $0.07 |