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Quality vs Price Frontier (Image Editing)

@ArtificialAnlysX · Sep 2, 2026

Quality vs Price Frontier (Image Editing)

@ArtificialAnlys's scatter plot drew 3.4K views on X: 0.3x @artificialanlys's median post and #1,015 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Quality vs Price Frontier for Image Editing Models

XData Scatter plot GPT Image (and DALL-E)All OpenAI modelsMAI-Image-2.5MAI-Image-2.5-FlashStep Image Edit 2Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)Qwen-Image-3.0-ProGPT Image 2 (high)

@ArtificialAnlys: Quality vs Price Frontier (Image Editing) — Published by @ArtificialAnlys on X, Sep 2, 2026. Source: x.com

12/ 100

ViralChart score

Quiet

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

#1,143 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #479 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

The post sits in the Quiet quadrant, at #1,143 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its score of 12 places it at #1,143 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Engagement rate of 0.21% sits at the 5th percentile among AI chart posts.

It ranked #10 of 10 by views among the account's 10 posts that day.

10posts from @artificialanlys that day

Part of a run of 10 posts on Sep 2, 2026. This one was #10 of 10 by views that day.

bottom 5%engagement rate

0.21% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

0.2xthe median scatter plot post

Across 187 scatter plot posts we hold, the median gets 22.4K views.

0.3x@artificialanlys's median post

3.4K views, where @artificialanlys's typical post gets 11.4K.

Public X numbers from our read on Oct 12, 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 #1,143 of 1,162

Views	3.4K	#1,015	bottom 13%
Likes	5	#1,154	bottom 1%
Engagement rate	0.21%	#1,110	bottom 5%
Save rate	0.059%	#731	bottom 37%

Among 491 @artificialanlys posts

Score #479 of 491

Views	3.4K	#387	bottom 21%
Likes	5	#486	bottom 1%
Engagement rate	0.21%	#472	bottom 4%
Save rate	0.059%	#298	bottom 39%

Growth

One read so far

Views3.4K

Age at our read40 days

Views per day of life85views 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.

@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 · Sep 2, 2026

@ArtificialAnlys posts Quality vs Price Frontier for Image Editing Models

A scatter plot of 6 image editing models drew 3.4K views and a 0.21% engagement rate.

What happened

@ArtificialAnlys published a scatter plot on September 2, 2026, titled Quality vs Price Frontier for Image Editing Models. It was one of 10 posts from the account that day, alongside 9 others including Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.

The numbers

The post reached 3.4K views, ranking #1,015 of 1,162 AI chart posts. Its score of 12 ranked #1,143 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #479 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts.

The lesson

A scatter plot with 6 models drew 0.21% engagement against a 0.73% median among AI chart posts. The chart shows MAI-Image-2.5-Flash at 1250 Arena Elo.

What it means

At #479 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts, this chart sits below the account's own median engagement rate of 0.82%. The gap to the 39.9K median views among AI chart posts is 3.4K against that 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 @artificialanlys posted next

Data and API

24 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 34%

Series	Value	Read
MAI-Image-2.5-Flash	1250	printed
MAI-Image-2.5	1250	estimated
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)	1200	estimated
Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro	1200	estimated
GPT Image 2 (high)	1300	estimated
Other	1200	estimated
Other	1100	estimated
Other	1200	estimated
Other	1100	estimated
Other	1200	estimated
Other	1100	estimated
Other	1200	estimated

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

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/a300c43d4f3a.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/a300c43d4f3a.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/a300c43d4f3a.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 a300c43d4f3a.

Approximate values. Our two readings of this chart agreed only in part (confidence 0.34 of 1), so check the original before you quote a number. The API marks it lowConfidence, and ?min_confidence=0.5 leaves it out.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a300c43d4f3a`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a300c43d4f3a/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a300c43d4f3a/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/a300c43d4f3a/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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