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Text-to-Image-2.1 Arena Leaderboard

@arenaX · Sep 22, 2026

Text-to-Image-2.1 Arena Leaderboard

@arena's benchmark bar chart drew 7.6K views on X: 0.2x its median post and #865 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Qwen-Image-2.1 ranked #1 open model

XData Benchmark bar chart Qwen-Image All Qwen modelsQwen-Image-2.1ideogram-4.0-qualityCosmos-3 Super T2I (Agentic)Cosmos-3 Super T2Ihunyuan-image-3.0Flux-2 Devqwen-image-2512hidream-o1-image

@arena: Text-to-Image-2.1 Arena Leaderboard — Published by @arena on X, Sep 22, 2026. Source: x.com

34/ 100

ViralChart score

Quiet

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

#845 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #189 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 Quiet quadrant, with a score rank of #845 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

At 7.6K views, the post sits at 0.16x @arena's median of 46.2K, ranking #195 of 239 @arena posts.

Its 0.033 views per follower lands at the 20th percentile among posts with known followers, against a 0.20 median.

The 0.14% save rate beats the 0.076% median among AI chart posts, ranking #245 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

0.03views per follower

7.6K views from an account with 234.1K followers.

0.2x@arena's median post

7.6K views, where @arena's typical post gets 46.2K.

0.2xthe median benchmark bar chart post

Across 215 benchmark bar chart posts we hold, the median gets 44.4K views.

3posts from @arena that day

Part of a run of 3 posts on Sep 22, 2026. This one was #3 of 3 by views that day.

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 #845 of 1,162

Views	7.6K	#865	bottom 26%
Likes	40	#907	bottom 22%
Engagement rate	0.55%	#769	bottom 34%
Save rate	0.145%	#245	top 21%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #189 of 239

Views	7.6K	#195	bottom 19%
Likes	40	#198	bottom 17%
Engagement rate	0.55%	#150	bottom 37%
Save rate	0.145%	#29	top 12%

Growth

One read so far

Views7.6K

Age at our read20 days

Views per day of life375views 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 · Sep 22, 2026

@arena posts Text-to-Image-2.1 Arena Leaderboard chart

The benchmark bar chart drew 7.6K views and a 0.14% save rate, ranking #845 of 1,162 AI chart posts by score.

What happened

@arena posted a Text-to-Image-2.1 Arena Leaderboard benchmark bar chart on September 22, 2026. That day the account also posted an Image Edit Arena 2.1 Leaderboard and a Code Arena: WebDev Ranked #10.

The numbers

The post reached 7.6K views, ranking #865 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #195 of 239 @arena posts. Its score rank is #845 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

A 0.14% save rate at the 79th percentile among AI chart posts shows readers bookmark this benchmark bar chart at a higher rate than the 0.076% median, even at 7.6K views.

What it means

At #189 of 239 @arena posts by score, this chart trails the account's own median views of 46.2K by 0.16x, while its save rate sits above the AI chart median.

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

Updates: what @arena posted next

Data and API

10 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 50%

Group	Value	Read
Qwen-Image-2.1	1228	estimated
ideogram-4.0-quality	1204	estimated
Cosmos-3 Super T2I (Agentic)	1165	estimated
Cosmos-3 Super T2I	1152	estimated
hunyuan-image-3.0	1151	estimated
Flux-2 Dev	1145	estimated
qwen-image-2512	1125	estimated
hidream-o1-image	1116	estimated
krea-2-turbo	1112	estimated
z-image-turbo	1083	estimated

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/5fd90f7b597d.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/5fd90f7b597d.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/5fd90f7b597d.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 5fd90f7b597d.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/5fd90f7b597d`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/5fd90f7b597d/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/5fd90f7b597d/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/5fd90f7b597d/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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Questions people ask

Where does this chart come from?

@arena published it on Sep 22, 2026 on X (x.com). We keep it here, with the publisher and date credited as text, so you can study it without leaving.

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