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@arenaX · Feb 28, 2026

Top 7 Open Models: February 2026 in Code

@arena's benchmark bar chart drew 16.2K views on X: 0.4x its median post and #743 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Top 7 Open Models in Code Arena for February 2026

XDataBenchmark bar chartDeepSeek V3All DeepSeek modelsGLM-5Kimi-K2.5 ThinkingMiniMax-M2.5Qwen-3.5-397B A17BDeepSeek-V3.2 ThinkingMimo V2 FlashMistral Large 3
Published by @arena on X, Feb 28, 2026. Source: x.com
58/ 100

ViralChart score

Small but loved

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

#495 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #101 of 239 @arena 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

The post sits in the Small but loved quadrant, with a score rank of #495 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 1.83% engagement rate sits at the 97th percentile among AI chart posts, against a 0.73% median.

Views of 16.2K are 0.35x this company's 46.2K median, ranking #174 of 239 @arena posts.

At 0.069 views per follower, it lands at the 32nd percentile among posts with known followers.

0.07views per follower

16.2K views from an account with 234.1K followers.

top 3%engagement rate

1.83% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

top 6%save rate

0.247% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

0.4x@arena's median post

16.2K views, where @arena's typical post gets 46.2K.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 2026. Peers: 1,162 AI chart posts we hold and 239 from @arena.

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 #495 of 1,162

Views16.2K#743bottom 36%
Likes253#601bottom 48%
Engagement rate1.83%#38top 3%
Save rate0.247%#66top 6%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #101 of 239

Views16.2K#174bottom 27%
Likes253#144bottom 40%
Engagement rate1.83%#1top 1%
Save rate0.247%#4top 1%

Growth

One read so far

Views16.2K
Age at our read227 days
Views per day of life71views 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.

@arena'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 · Feb 28, 2026

@arena posts Top 7 Open Models in Code for February 2026

A benchmark bar chart of 7 open models drew 16.2K views and a 1.83% engagement rate, above the 0.73% median for AI chart posts.

What happened

@arena published a benchmark bar chart on February 28, 2026, titled Top 7 Open Models: February 2026 in Code. It was the account's only post that day.

The numbers

The post reached 16.2K views, ranking #743 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #174 of 239 @arena posts. Its score of 58 ranks #495 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

At 1.83%, engagement ran above the 0.73% median for AI chart posts, while views of 16.2K sat below the 39.9K median. A 7-model benchmark bar chart drew saves at 0.25%.

What it means

For @arena, 16.2K views is 0.35x its own 46.2K median, ranking #174 of 239 of its posts. The 1.83% engagement rate sits at the 97th percentile among AI chart posts.

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

7 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 97%
SeriesGroupValueRead
GLM-51451printed
Kimi-K2.5 Thinking1436printed
MiniMax-M2.51436printed
Qwen-3.5-397B-A17B1396printed
DeepSeek-V3.2 Thinking1370printed
Mimo V2 Flash1341printed
Mistral Large 31222printed

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/40638c2c503a.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/40638c2c503a.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/40638c2c503a.skill.md

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

API · Max

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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 40638c2c503a.

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GET/api/v1/charts/40638c2c503a/render?view=1The draw-only view this page usesOpen
POST/mcpTool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agentsMax
curlMax
curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/40638c2c503a/data \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"
Claude CodeMax
claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"

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