I use 11.35B AI tokens a month. How many do you use?

An analysis of 12,000 developers across 200 companies in Q1 2026 found that the median AI coding user consumes about 51 million tokens per month (roughly $52.38), while 90th-percentile users consume about 380 million tokens (roughly $691.14). Higher token usage correlates with more merged pull requests, but cost per PR rises from $0.28 in the lowest usage tier to $89.32 in the highest, and the median developer uses about 7 million tokens per PR versus roughly 69 million for the top decile. The author argues that broad, moderate adoption delivers more value than pushing a small group to extreme usage, and that an "agentic barrier" limits gains from simply increasing token consumption.