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Text-to-Image Arena Rankings

@arenaX · Aug 26, 2025

Text-to-Image Arena Rankings

@arena's leaderboard drew 6.1K views on X: 0.1x its median post and #904 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ranks #1 on Text-to-Image Arena

XData Leaderboard GPT Image (and DALL-E)All OpenAI models qwen-imagegemini-2.5-flash-image-previewgpt-image-1imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-preview-06-06seedream-3flux-1-kontext-maximagen-3.0-generate-002flux-1-kontext-pro

@arena: Text-to-Image Arena Rankings — Published by @arena on X, Aug 26, 2025. Source: x.com

36/ 100

ViralChart score

Small but loved

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

#813 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #184 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 #813 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

At 6.1K views, this post sits at 0.13x @arena's median of 46.2K, ranking #205 of 239 @arena posts.

Its 1.48% engagement rate lands in the 92nd percentile among AI chart posts, against a 0.73% median.

Views per follower of 0.026 falls at the 16th percentile among posts with known followers, against a 0.20 median.

0.03views per follower

6.1K views from an account with 234.1K followers.

0.1x@arena's median post

6.1K views, where @arena's typical post gets 46.2K.

0.1xthe median leaderboard post

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

top 8%engagement rate

1.48% 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 #813 of 1,162

Views	6.1K	#904	bottom 22%
Likes	81	#791	bottom 32%
Engagement rate	1.48%	#94	top 8%
Save rate	0.049%	#837	bottom 28%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #184 of 239

Views	6.1K	#205	bottom 14%
Likes	81	#181	bottom 25%
Engagement rate	1.48%	#7	top 3%
Save rate	0.049%	#191	bottom 20%

Growth

One read so far

Views6.1K

Age at our read412 days

Views per day of life15views 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 · Aug 26, 2025

@arena posts Text-to-Image Arena Rankings leaderboard

The leaderboard drew 6.1K views and an engagement rate of 1.48%, above the 0.73% median among AI chart posts.

What happened

@arena posted a Text-to-Image Arena Rankings leaderboard on August 26, 2025. It was the account's only post that day.

The numbers

The post reached 6.1K views, ranking #904 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #205 of 239 @arena posts. Its score rank is #813 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

A leaderboard with 10 models shown drew 6.1K views against a 39.9K median among AI chart posts, yet its 1.48% engagement rate beat the 0.73% median.

What it means

For @arena, this post's 6.1K views sit at 0.13x its own 46.2K median, while the 1.48% engagement rate is above the account's 0.68% 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

12 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 50%

Group	Value	Read
gemini-2.5-flash-image-preview	1147	estimated
gpt-image-1	1129	estimated
gpt-image-1.0-ultra-generate-preview-06-06	1119	estimated
imagen-4.0-generate-preview-06-06	1077	estimated
seedream-3	1075	estimated
flux-1-kontext-max	1062	estimated
imagen-3.0-generate-002	1056	estimated
flux-1-kontext-pro	1051	estimated
qwen-image	1035	estimated
photon	1033	estimated
lucid-origin	1031	estimated
ideogram-v3-quality	1031	estimated

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/b4ff47d14418.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/b4ff47d14418.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/b4ff47d14418.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 b4ff47d14418.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/b4ff47d14418`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/b4ff47d14418/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/b4ff47d14418/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/b4ff47d14418/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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