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@arenaX · Feb 26, 2026

Arena Rankings Update: Nano-Banana 2 Text-to-Image

@arena's annotated chart drew 30.1K views on X: 0.7x its median post and #643 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Arena Rankings Update for Nano-Banana 2 Text-to-Image

XDataAnnotated chartGPT Image (and DALL-E)All OpenAI modelsGemini-3.1-Flash-Image (Nano-Banana-2)Gemini-3-Pro-Image 2k (Nano-Banana-Pro)GPT-Image-1.5 (High-Fidelity)
Published by @arena on X, Feb 26, 2026. Source: x.com
55/ 100

ViralChart score

Small but loved

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

#545 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #123 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 #545 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 0.15% save rate sits at the 81st percentile among AI chart posts, against a 0.076% median.

It ranked #2 of 2 posts from this account that day by views.

At 30.1K views it ran 0.65x the company median of 46.2K, ranking #155 of 239 @arena posts.

0.13views per follower

30.1K views from an account with 234.1K followers.

top 19%save rate

0.153% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

2posts from @arena that day

Part of a run of 2 posts on Feb 26, 2026. This one was #2 of 2 by views that day.

top 29%engagement rate

0.98% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

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 #545 of 1,162

Views30.1K#643bottom 45%
Likes250#606bottom 48%
Engagement rate0.98%#332top 29%
Save rate0.153%#219top 19%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #123 of 239

Views30.1K#155bottom 35%
Likes250#146bottom 39%
Engagement rate0.98%#47top 19%
Save rate0.153%#25top 10%

Growth

One read so far

Views30.1K
Age at our read228 days
Views per day of life132views 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 26, 2026

@arena posts Arena Rankings Update for Nano-Banana 2 Text-to-Image

An annotated chart with 3 models drew 30.1K views and a 0.15% save rate, landing in the Small but loved quadrant.

What happened

@arena posted an Arena Rankings Update for Nano-Banana 2 Text-to-Image on February 26, 2026. It was 1 of 2 posts from this account that day, alongside Claude Opus & Sonnet 4.6 Search Arena Rankings.

The numbers

It reached 30.1K views, ranking #643 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #155 of 239 @arena posts. Its score rank is #545 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

A 0.15% save rate at the 81st percentile among AI chart posts shows that a 合法性 annotated chart with 3 models is what readers bookmark, even when views trail the 39.9K median.

What it means

At #123 of 239 @arena posts by score, this chart sits below the account's own median, and its 0.65x ratio to the company median of 46.2K views shows the gap.

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

  1. Top 7 Open Models: February 2026 in Code16.2K views
  2. Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in Code Arena3.9K views
  3. Pareto Frontier: Text Models Cost vs Score50.8K views
  4. Video Edit Arena Rankings25.9K views

Data and API

24 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 53%
SeriesGroupValueRead
Gemini-3.1-Flash-Image (Nano-Banana-2)Overall1320 scoreprinted
Gemini-3-Pro-Image 2k (Nano-Banana-Pro)Overall1270 scoreprinted
GPT-Image-1.5 (High-Fidelity)Overall1250 scoreprinted
Gemini-3.1-Flash-Image (Nano-Banana-2)3D Imaging & Modeling1290 scoreestimated
Gemini-3-Pro-Image 2k (Nano-Banana-Pro)3D Imaging & Modeling1260 scoreestimated
GPT-Image-1.5 (High-Fidelity)3D Imaging & Modeling1250 scoreestimated
Gemini-3.1-Flash-Image (Nano-Banana-2)Art1280 scoreestimated
Gemini-3-Pro-Image 2k (Nano-Banana-Pro)Art1260 scoreestimated
GPT-Image-1.5 (High-Fidelity)Art1250 scoreestimated
Gemini-3.1-Flash-Image (Nano-Banana-2)Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy1280 scoreestimated
Gemini-3-Pro-Image 2k (Nano-Banana-Pro)Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy1260 scoreestimated
GPT-Image-1.5 (High-Fidelity)Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy1250 scoreestimated

Showing 12 of 24. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/9f1bb06fd3fc.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/9f1bb06fd3fc.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/9f1bb06fd3fc.skill.md
Make one like thisOpen the post JSONChart data JSONSkill fileAPI 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 9f1bb06fd3fc.

See the Max planAPI docs
PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/9f1bb06fd3fcTitle, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/9f1bb06fd3fc/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/9f1bb06fd3fc/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/9f1bb06fd3fc/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

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@arena published it on Feb 26, 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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