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Text-to-Image Arena Top 20

@arenaX · Aug 10, 2026

Text-to-Image Arena Top 20

@arena's benchmark bar chart drew 1.2M views on X: 27x its median post and #95 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

MAI-Image-2.6 ranks second in text-to-image arena

XData Benchmark bar chart GPT Image (and DALL-E)All OpenAI models Muse ImageGPT Image 2 (Medium)MAI-Image-2.6Reve-2.1Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low)Reve-2.0Nano Banana 2Seedream-5.0 Pro

@arena: Text-to-Image Arena Top 20 — Published by @arena on X, Aug 10, 2026. Source: x.com

63/ 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.

#383 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #63 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 #383 of 1,162 AI chart posts by score.

Its 1.2M views are 27x @arena's median post, ranking #10 of 239 @arena posts.

The 0.12% engagement rate sits at the 3rd percentile among AI chart posts, in the bottom decile.

At 5.34 views per follower, it reaches the 93rd percentile among posts with known followers, a top decile figure.

27x@arena's median post

1.2M views, where @arena's typical post gets 46.2K.

28xthe median benchmark bar chart post

Across 215 benchmark bar chart posts we hold, the median gets 44.4K views.

bottom 3%engagement rate

0.12% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

5.34views per follower

1.2M views from an account with 234.1K followers.

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 #383 of 1,162

Views	1.2M	#95	top 8%
Likes	1.3K	#219	top 19%
Engagement rate	0.12%	#1,130	bottom 3%
Save rate	0.019%	#1,063	bottom 9%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #63 of 239

Views	1.2M	#10	top 4%
Likes	1.3K	#30	top 12%
Engagement rate	0.12%	#232	bottom 3%
Save rate	0.019%	#221	bottom 8%

Growth

Our reads cover 21 hours

Views1.2M

Age at our read64 days

Views per day of life19.6Kviews divided by days since it was posted

Gained between our reads+31views over 21 hours, about 35 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 10, 2026

@arena posts Text-to-Image Arena Top 20 benchmark chart

The chart shows MAI-Image-2.6 at 1336, second among the printed values, in a post that drew 1.2M views and a 0.12% engagement rate.

What happened

@arena published a Text-to-Image Arena Top 20 benchmark bar chart on August 10, 2026. It was the account's only post that day.

The numbers

It reached 1.2M views, #95 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a median of 39.9K views among AI chart posts. Its score of 63 ranks #383 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #63 of 239 @arena posts.

The lesson

A 20-model benchmark bar chart drew 1.2M views but a 0.12% engagement rate, 0.17x the AI chart median. The chart shows printed values from 1381 down to 1256.5, and the save rate was 0.019%.

What it means

For @arena, 1.2M views is 27x its own median of 46.2K, yet the 0.12% engagement rate is below its 0.68% account median. The post's #63 of 239 @arena posts by score sits far under its #10 of 239 by views.

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

25 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 74%

Group	Value	Read
GPT Image 2 (Medium)	1381	printed
MAI-Image-2.6	1336	printed
Reve Imagine Image 2.0 (Low)	1316	estimated
Muse Image	1302	estimated
Reve-2.0	1282	estimated
Nano Banana 2	1267	printed
Seedream-5.0 Pro	1261	printed
Qwen Image 3.0 Pro	1257.5	printed
MAI-Image-2.5	1256.5	printed
Nano Banana 2 Lite	1253.5	printed
Nano Banana 2 Lite	1251	estimated
GPT Image 1.5 High Fidelity	1235.5	printed

Showing 12 of 25. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/c1eddc486396.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/c1eddc486396.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/c1eddc486396.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 c1eddc486396.

See the Max plan API docs

	Path	Returns	Plan
GET	`/api/v1/charts/c1eddc486396`	Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link	Open
GET	`/api/v1/charts/c1eddc486396/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/c1eddc486396/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/c1eddc486396/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

Where does this chart come from?

@arena published it on Aug 10, 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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