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@ArtificialAnlysX · Mar 12, 2026

Intelligence vs. Cost to Run Index

@ArtificialAnlys's scatter plot drew 5K views on X: 0.4x @artificialanlys's median post and #945 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Most attractive quadrant highlighted for intelligence vs cost

Published by @ArtificialAnlys on X, Mar 12, 2026. Source: x.com
32/ 100

ViralChart score

Small but loved

Fewer views than the median post but a higher engagement rate: a smaller crowd that acted on it.

#877 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #285 of 491 @artificialanlys posts. Score = views 40%, likes 30%, engagement rate 15%, save rate 15%, each as a percentile of every AI chart post we hold.

Our read

It sits in the Small but loved quadrant at #877 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its #3 of 3 rank by views that day comes with 3 posts from this account on March 12, 2026.

The score of 32 lands at #877 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #285 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts.

Engagement of 1.05% sits at the 75th percentile among AI chart posts, 1.4x the 0.73% median.

0.2xthe median scatter plot post

Across 187 scatter plot posts we hold, the median gets 22.4K views.

3posts from @artificialanlys that day

Part of a run of 3 posts on Mar 12, 2026. This one was #3 of 3 by views that day.

0.4x@artificialanlys's median post

5K views, where @artificialanlys's typical post gets 11.4K.

top 25%engagement rate

1.05% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 491 from @artificialanlys.

Where it sits

Reach against resonance

Each dot is a post. Right is more views, up is a higher engagement rate. The lines are the medians, so the four corners are the four kinds of post.

Among 1,162 AI chart posts we hold

Score #877 of 1,162

Views5K#945bottom 19%
Likes48#875bottom 25%
Engagement rate1.05%#288top 25%
Save rate0.060%#725bottom 38%

Among 491 @artificialanlys posts

Score #285 of 491

Views5K#334bottom 32%
Likes48#294bottom 40%
Engagement rate1.05%#153top 31%
Save rate0.060%#295bottom 40%

Growth

One read so far

Views5K
Age at our read214 days
Views per day of life24views divided by days since it was posted

Dots are our reads. The dotted line from the day it was posted to our first read is a gap, not data.

@artificialanlys's posts over time

Every post from this account we hold, by date and views. This one is marked; the line is the running median of the last 10.

News · Mar 12, 2026

@ArtificialAnlys scatter plot on intelligence versus cost to run

A 1-chart scatter plot with 29 models shown drew 5K views and a 1.05% engagement rate, 1.4x the AI chart median.

What happened

On March 12, 2026, @ArtificialAnlys posted a scatter plot on Intelligence vs. Cost to Run Index, with 1 chart and 29 models shown. That day the account posted 3 times, including AI Model Performance Benchmarks and Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.0.

The numbers

It reached 5K views, #945 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a median of 39.9K views among AI chart posts. Its score of 32 ranks #877 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #285 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts.

The lesson

A 1-chart scatter plot with 29 models shown drew 5K views and a 1.05% engagement rate, 1.4x the 0.73% median among AI chart posts. The save rate was 0.060%.

What it means

At #285 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts, this chart sits below the account's own score ranks while its 1.05% engagement rate is above the 0.82% median for this account.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 12, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Data and API

20 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 51%
SeriesGroupValueRead
GoogleGemini 3.1 Pro Preview56 indexestimated
Z AIArtificial Analysis55 indexestimated
AnthropicClaude Opus (xhigh)54 indexestimated
OpenAIGPT-5.3 Codex (xhigh)52 indexestimated
AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.6 (max)51 indexestimated
OpenAIGPT-5.2 (xhigh)50 indexestimated
xAIGrok 4.20 Beta 030949 indexestimated
Z AIGLM-549 indexestimated
KimiKimi K2.548 indexestimated
AlibabaQwen3.5 397B A17B47 indexestimated
GoogleGemini 3 Flash46 indexestimated
DeepSeekDeepSeek V3.242 indexestimated

Showing 12 of 20. All points, the redraw and the maker

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GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/0a0d40efe59a.skill.md

Static files in this prototype. The post JSON holds the public numbers, ranks, score, quadrant, our reads and, when checked, our copy.

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