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Text-to-Image Arena Top 20

@arenaX · Aug 8, 2026

Text-to-Image Arena Top 20

@arena's leaderboard drew 280.2K views on X: 6.1x its median post and #219 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low) ranked #2 in Text-to-Image Arena

XData Leaderboard Grok Imagine All xAI models Muse ImageGPT Image 2 (Medium)Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low)Reve-2.0Qwen Image 3.0 ProNano Banana 2Seedream-5.0 ProMai Image 2.5

@arena: Text-to-Image Arena Top 20 — Published by @arena on X, Aug 8, 2026. Source: x.com

65/ 100

ViralChart score

Wide but thin

More views than the median post but a lower engagement rate: many saw it, few acted. Common for big accounts.

#343 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #50 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

It sits in the Wide but thin quadrant, at #343 of 1,162 AI chart posts by score.

Its 280K views are 6.1x @arena's median post, ranking #37 of 239 @arena posts by views.

At 1.20 views per follower, it sits in the 80th percentile among posts with known followers.

It was #1 of 2 posts from this account that day, ahead of the Image Edit Arena Top 20 at 16.1K.

6.1x@arena's median post

280.2K views, where @arena's typical post gets 46.2K.

6.2xthe median leaderboard post

Across 107 leaderboard posts we hold, the median gets 45.3K views.

2posts from @arena that day

Part of a run of 2 posts on Aug 8, 2026. This one was #1 of 2 by views that day.

bottom 29%engagement rate

0.51% 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 #343 of 1,162

Views	280.2K	#219	top 19%
Likes	1.2K	#235	top 20%
Engagement rate	0.51%	#828	bottom 29%
Save rate	0.052%	#794	bottom 32%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #50 of 239

Views	280.2K	#37	top 15%
Likes	1.2K	#33	top 14%
Engagement rate	0.51%	#167	bottom 30%
Save rate	0.052%	#183	bottom 24%

Growth

Our reads cover 22 hours

Views280.2K

Age at our read67 days

Views per day of life4.2Kviews divided by days since it was posted

Gained between our reads+10views over 22 hours, about 11 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 · Aug 8, 2026

@arena posts Text-to-Image Arena Top 20 leaderboard

The leaderboard drew 280K views and 1.2K likes on a 0.51% engagement rate, with a 0.052% save rate.

What happened

@arena published a Text-to-Image Arena Top 20 leaderboard on August 8, 2026. The same day the account also posted an Image Edit Arena Top 20, which drew 16.1K views.

The numbers

It reached 280K views, #219 of 1,162 AI chart posts by views and #37 of 239 @arena posts. Its score of 65 ranks #343 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

A leaderboard with 18 models shown drew 280K views, 6.1x @arena's median post, but a 0.052% save rate. The chart shows a top score of 1380 against 1320 at #2.

What it means

At #50 of 239 @arena posts by score, this leaderboard trails the account's own top posts despite 6.1x the median views. The 0.51% engagement rate sits below the AI chart median.

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

20 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 91%

Group	Value	Read
GPT Image 2 (Medium)	1380	printed
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low)	1320	printed
Muse Image 2	1292	printed
Reve-2.0	1273	printed
Qwen Image 3.0 Pro	1270	printed
Nano Banana 2	1260.5	printed
Seedream-5.0 Pro	1257.5	printed
Mai Image 2.5	1256.5	printed
Nano Banana 2 Lite	1253.5	printed
Nano Banana Pro 2K	1248.5	printed
GPT Image 1.5 High Fidelity	1242.5	printed
Nano Banana Pro	1235.5	printed

Showing 12 of 20. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/a50ce6b3370c.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/a50ce6b3370c.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/a50ce6b3370c.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 a50ce6b3370c.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a50ce6b3370c`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a50ce6b3370c/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/a50ce6b3370c/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/a50ce6b3370c/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.