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Text-to-Image Arena 2.1 Rankings

@arenaX · Oct 6, 2026

Text-to-Image Arena 2.1 Rankings

@arena's benchmark bar chart drew 67.2K views on X: 1.5x its median post and #464 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

Nano Banana 2.1 ranked #5 in Text-to-Image Arena

XData Benchmark bar chart Nano Banana (Gemini image models)All Google models Muse ImageGPT Image 2.5 SunburstGPT Image 2.5 FlareGPT Image 2 (Medium)MAI Image 2.6Nano Banana 2.1Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (canvas)Reve 2.1

@arena: Text-to-Image Arena 2.1 Rankings — Published by @arena on X, Oct 6, 2026. Source: x.com

69/ 100

ViralChart score

Reached and resonated

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

#253 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #36 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 Reached and resonated quadrant at #253 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 0.16% save rate sits at the 83rd percentile among AI chart posts, above the 0.076% median.

The post scores 69 and ranks #253 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

It carries 3 charts, and every chart in the post shares the post's numbers.

3charts in this one post

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

0.29views per follower

67.2K views from an account with 234.1K followers.

top 17%save rate

0.158% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

top 20%engagement rate

1.15% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 13, 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 #253 of 1,162

Views	67.2K	#464	top 40%
Likes	660	#366	top 31%
Engagement rate	1.15%	#230	top 20%
Save rate	0.158%	#203	top 17%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #36 of 239

Views	67.2K	#98	top 41%
Likes	660	#60	top 25%
Engagement rate	1.15%	#29	top 12%
Save rate	0.158%	#20	top 8%

Growth

Our reads cover 21 hours

Views67.2K

Age at our read7 days

Views per day of life9.8Kviews divided by days since it was posted

Gained between our reads+327views over 21 hours, about 371 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.

@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 · Oct 6, 2026

@arena posts Text-to-Image Arena 2.1 Rankings benchmark bar chart

The post drew 67.2K views and a 1.15% engagement rate, with a 0.16% save rate at the 83rd percentile among AI chart posts.

What happened

@arena posted a Text-to-Image Arena 2.1 Rankings benchmark bar chart on October 6, 2026. The post carried 3 charts, including Image Nano Edit Arena 2.1, and it was the account's only post that day.

The numbers

It reached 67.2K views, ranking #464 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a median of 39.9K views among AI chart posts. Its score of 69 ranks #253 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #36 of 239 @arena posts.

The lesson

A 0.16% save rate at the 83rd percentile among AI chart posts shows readers kept this 15-model benchmark bar chart at more than the 0.076% median rate.

What it means

At #36 of 239 @arena posts, this chart sits inside the account's own top ranks while its 67.2K views run above 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 @arena posted next

Data and API

15 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 94%

Group	Value	Read
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst	1425	printed
GPT Image 2.5 Flare	1398	printed
GPT Image 2 (Medium)	1383	estimated
MAI Image 2.6	1333	printed
Nano Banana 2.1	1328	printed
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (canvas)	1321	printed
Reve 2.1	1302	printed
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low)	1297	printed
Muse Image	1274	printed
Reve 2.0	1269	printed
Nano Banana 2	1261	printed
Seedream 5.0 Pro	1256	printed

Showing 12 of 15. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/6961f5ffe98f.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/6961f5ffe98f.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/6961f5ffe98f.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 6961f5ffe98f.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/6961f5ffe98f`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/6961f5ffe98f/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/6961f5ffe98f/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/6961f5ffe98f/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.