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Qwen-Image-2.1 vs Open Weights Capability Frontier

@ArtificialAnlysX · Oct 1, 2026

Qwen-Image-2.1 vs Open Weights Capability Frontier

@ArtificialAnlys's annotated chart drew 4.6K views on X: 0.4x @artificialanlys's median post and #968 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

Qwen-Image-2.1 gap to open weights frontier

XData Annotated chart Qwen-Image All Qwen modelsQwen-Image-2.1Ideogram 4.0

@ArtificialAnlys: Qwen-Image-2.1 vs Open Weights Capability Frontier — Published by @ArtificialAnlys on X, Oct 1, 2026. Source: x.com

28/ 100

ViralChart score

Quiet

Fewer views and a lower engagement rate than the median post.

#950 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #336 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 Quiet quadrant, at #950 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its #5 of 11 rank by views that day sits level with the account's 11 posts from October 1, 2026.

At #950 of 1,162 AI chart posts, the score of 28 sits below the field.

The post carries 4 charts, and every chart in the post shares the post's numbers.

4charts in this one post

The numbers belong to the post, so every chart in it shares them and it is ranked once.

11posts from @artificialanlys that day

Part of a run of 11 posts on Oct 1, 2026. This one was #5 of 11 by views that day.

0.2xthe median annotated chart post

Across 62 annotated chart posts we hold, the median gets 22.8K views.

0.4x@artificialanlys's median post

4.6K views, where @artificialanlys's typical post gets 11.4K.

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 #950 of 1,162

Views	4.6K	#968	bottom 17%
Likes	23	#994	bottom 14%
Engagement rate	0.58%	#732	bottom 37%
Save rate	0.130%	#293	top 25%

Among 491 @artificialanlys posts

Score #336 of 491

Views	4.6K	#348	bottom 29%
Likes	23	#367	bottom 25%
Engagement rate	0.58%	#343	bottom 30%
Save rate	0.130%	#148	top 30%

Growth

Our reads cover 21 hours

Views4.6K

Age at our read12 days

Views per day of life392views divided by days since it was posted

Gained between our reads+23views over 21 hours, about 26 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 · Oct 1, 2026

@ArtificialAnlys charts Qwen-Image-2.1 against the open weights frontier

An annotated chart on Qwen-Image-2.1's gap to the open weights frontier drew 4.6K views and a 0.58% engagement rate.

What happened

@ArtificialAnlys posted an annotated chart on October 1, 2026 on Qwen-Image-2.1's gap to the open weights frontier, with 4 charts in the post. It was one of 11 posts from the account that day.

The numbers

It reached 4.6K views, #968 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a median of 39.9K views among AI chart posts. Its score of 28 ranks #950 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #336 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts.

The lesson

The post carries 4 charts, and every chart shares the post's numbers, so the 4.6K views are split across all of them. A 0.13% save rate against a 0.58% engagement rate shows the annotated chart was read more than kept.

What it means

At #336 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts, this chart sits below the account's own body of work, and its 4.6K views fall far short of the 39.9K median among AI chart posts.

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

27 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 58%

Series	Group	Value	Read
Qwen-Image-2.1	Complex Compositions	0	printed
Qwen-Image-2.1	Human Anatomy	-19	printed
Qwen-Image-2.1	Knowledge	0	printed
Qwen-Image-2.1	Layout	0	printed
Qwen-Image-2.1	Lighting	0	printed
Qwen-Image-2.1	Material	-17	printed
Qwen-Image-2.1	Physics	-17	printed
Qwen-Image-2.1	Reasoning	-4	printed
Qwen-Image-2.1	Text Rendering	0	printed
Open weights frontier	Complex Compositions	0	estimated
Open weights frontier	Human Anatomy	0	estimated
Open weights frontier	Knowledge	0	estimated

Showing 12 of 27. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/596bd93a7c47.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/596bd93a7c47.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/596bd93a7c47.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 596bd93a7c47.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/596bd93a7c47`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/596bd93a7c47/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/596bd93a7c47/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/596bd93a7c47/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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