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@arenaX · Mar 3, 2026

Pareto Frontier: Text Models Cost vs Score

@arena's scatter plot drew 50.8K views on X: 1.1x its median post and #531 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

XDataScatter plotGemini Flash-LiteAll Google modelsClaude Opus 4.6Gemini-3.1 ProGemini-3 FlashGLM-4.7Claude Sonnet 4o1Claude Opus 4.1GPT-5.2 Chat
Published by @arena on X, Mar 3, 2026. Source: x.com
66/ 100

ViralChart score

Reached and resonated

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

#331 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #48 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 #331 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 0.24% save rate sits in the 94th percentile among AI chart posts, against a 0.076% median.

The post ranked #1 of 2 posts from this account that day by views.

A score of 66 places it at #331 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

top 6%save rate

0.244% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

0.22views per follower

50.8K views from an account with 234.1K followers.

top 21%engagement rate

1.12% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

2posts from @arena that day

Part of a run of 2 posts on Mar 3, 2026. This one was #1 of 2 by views that day.

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 #331 of 1,162

Views50.8K#531top 46%
Likes480#453top 39%
Engagement rate1.12%#242top 21%
Save rate0.244%#69top 6%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #48 of 239

Views50.8K#113top 47%
Likes480#89top 37%
Engagement rate1.12%#34top 14%
Save rate0.244%#5top 2%

Growth

One read so far

Views50.8K
Age at our read223 days
Views per day of life228views 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 · Mar 3, 2026

@arena posts Pareto Frontier scatter of text model cost vs score

A 17-model scatter plot from @arena drew 50.8K views and a 0.24% save rate, the 94th percentile among AI chart posts.

What happened

@arena posted a scatter plot titled Pareto Frontier: Text Models Cost vs Score on March 3, 2026. It was one of 2 posts from the account that day, alongside Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite in Code Arena.

The numbers

The post reached 50.8K views, ranking #531 of 1,162 AI chart posts by views. Its score of 66 ranked #331 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #48 of 239 @arena posts.

The lesson

A 0.24% save rate, the 94th percentile among AI chart posts, shows that a 17-model scatter plot is what readers bookmark. The 0.076% median save rate for AI chart posts is far below this post's rate.

What it means

At #48 of 239 @arena posts by score, this chart sits in the account's upper range. Its 50.8K views exceed the 39.9K median among AI chart posts, while its save rate is 0.24% against a 0.076% 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

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  3. Arena GLM Model Rankings: GLM-5.1 vs 4.7 Text22.2K views
  4. GLM-5.1 Code Arena Ranking494.1K views

Data and API

18 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 70%
SeriesGroupValueRead
AnthropicClaude Opus 4.61500printed
GoogleGemini-3.1 Pro1495printed
AnthropicClaude Opus 4.11445printed
OpenAIGPT-5.2 Chat1465printed
GoogleGemini-3 Flash1440estimated
Z.aiGLM-4.71435estimated
GoogleGemini-3.1 Flash Lite1425estimated
xAIGrok-4 Fast Chat1422.5printed
AnthropicClaude Haiku 4.51415printed
AnthropicClaude Sonnet 41400printed
OpenAIo3-mini-high1370printed
AlibabaQwen-3.5-35B-A3B1395estimated

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