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AI Model Intelligence vs Cost Pareto

@ArtificialAnlysX · Aug 26, 2026

AI Model Intelligence vs Cost Pareto

@ArtificialAnlys's scatter plot drew 167.5K views on X: 15x @artificialanlys's median post and #287 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

AI Model Intelligence vs Cost Pareto Analysis

XData Scatter plot GLM-5.3 All Z.ai models GPT-4 Claude 3 Llama 3Gemini 1.5DeepSeekQwen

@ArtificialAnlys: AI Model Intelligence vs Cost Pareto — Published by @ArtificialAnlys on X, Aug 26, 2026. Source: x.com

82/ 100

ViralChart score

Reached and resonated

More views and a higher engagement rate than the median post: it travelled and people acted on it.

#35 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #6 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 Reached and resonated quadrant, at #35 of 1,162 AI chart posts by score.

Its 167K views are 15x @ArtificialAnlys's median post, ranking #59 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts by views.

A score of 82 places it #35 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #6 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts.

Engagement of 1.34% sits at the 88th percentile among AI chart posts, against a 0.73% median.

15x@artificialanlys's median post

167.5K views, where @artificialanlys's typical post gets 11.4K.

7.5xthe median scatter plot post

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

top 12%engagement rate

1.34% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

5posts from @artificialanlys that day

Part of a run of 5 posts on Aug 26, 2026. This one was #1 of 5 by views that day.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 13, 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 #35 of 1,162

Views	167.5K	#287	top 25%
Likes	1.9K	#158	top 14%
Engagement rate	1.34%	#137	top 12%
Save rate	0.173%	#164	top 14%

Among 491 @artificialanlys posts

Score #6 of 491

Views	167.5K	#59	top 12%
Likes	1.9K	#25	top 5%
Engagement rate	1.34%	#68	top 14%
Save rate	0.173%	#83	top 17%

Growth

Our reads cover 28 hours

Views167.5K

Age at our read48 days

Views per day of life3.5Kviews divided by days since it was posted

Gained between our reads+20views over 28 hours, about 17 a day now

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 · Aug 26, 2026

@ArtificialAnlys scatter plot on AI model intelligence vs cost

The August 26, 2026 scatter plot drew 167K views and a 1.34% engagement rate, both above the AI chart medians.

What happened

On August 26, 2026, @ArtificialAnlys posted a scatter plot on AI Model Intelligence vs Cost Pareto, one of 5 posts from the account that day, alongside 4 others including one on output tokens used to run evaluations.

The numbers

It reached 167K views, #287 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a 39.9K median among AI chart posts. Its score of 82 ranks #35 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #6 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts.

The lesson

A scatter plot with 6 models shown drew 1.34% engagement against a 0.73% median among AI chart posts, and 0.17% of viewers saved it. The chart shows printed values from 63 for Claude Opus 4.5 down to 59 for Gemini 3.1 Pro (high).

What it means

At #6 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts by score, this scatter plot sits well above the account's 0.82% median engagement rate. Its 167K views are 15x the account's 11.4K median, a gap the account's other August 26, 2026 posts did not match.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 13, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

Updates: what @artificialanlys posted next

Data and API

37 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 69%

Group	Value	Read
Claude Opus 4.5	63 index	printed
Claude Sonnet 4.5	62 index	printed
GPT-5.1 (high)	61 index	printed
Grok 4 (high)	61 index	printed
Kimi K2.5	60 index	printed
Gemini 3.1 Pro (high)	59 index	printed
Gemini 3 Flash (high)	58 index	printed
GPT-5.1 (medium)	57 index	printed
Gemini 3.1 Flash (high)	57 index	printed
Grok 4.1 (high)	56 index	estimated
Gemini 3.1 Pro (medium)	53 index	estimated
GPT-5.1 (low)	52 index	printed

Showing 12 of 37. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/1dece4da20b0.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/1dece4da20b0.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/1dece4da20b0.skill.md

Make one like this Open the post JSON Chart data JSON Skill file API docs

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

API · Max

Use this chart via API

On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id 1dece4da20b0.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/1dece4da20b0`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/1dece4da20b0/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/1dece4da20b0/render?view=1`	The draw-only view this page uses	Open
POST	`/mcp`	Tool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agents	Max

curlMax

curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/1dece4da20b0/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

Claude CodeMax

claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.

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