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Cost per Hour of Input Audio by Model

@ArtificialAnlysX · Jul 28, 2026

Cost per Hour of Input Audio by Model

@ArtificialAnlys's bar chart drew 4.6K views on X: 0.4x @artificialanlys's median post and #969 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

Cost per hour of input audio varies by model

XData Bar chart gpt-realtime and Realtime API All OpenAI modelsGemini 2.5 Audio NativeGemini 3.1 Flash Live PreviewGemini 3.1 Flash Preview - HighQwen3 Omni Instruct (Flash)Qwen3 Omni A2B InstructGrok Voice Fast 1.0Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0GPT-Realtime Mini (Oct 25)

@ArtificialAnlys: Cost per Hour of Input Audio by Model — Published by @ArtificialAnlys on X, Jul 28, 2026. Source: x.com

12/ 100

ViralChart score

Quiet

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

#1,142 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #478 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 #1,142 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its score of 12 sits at #1,142 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

A save rate of 0.022% lands at the 10th percentile among AI chart posts, against a median of 0.076%.

At 4.6K views it runs 0.40x this company's median of 11.4K.

0.2xthe median bar chart post

Across 241 bar chart posts we hold, the median gets 25.6K views.

bottom 10%save rate

0.022% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

bottom 13%engagement rate

0.35% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

0.4x@artificialanlys's median post

4.6K 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 #1,142 of 1,162

Views	4.6K	#969	bottom 17%
Likes	14	#1,072	bottom 8%
Engagement rate	0.35%	#1,011	bottom 13%
Save rate	0.022%	#1,041	bottom 10%

Among 491 @artificialanlys posts

Score #478 of 491

Views	4.6K	#349	bottom 29%
Likes	14	#421	bottom 14%
Engagement rate	0.35%	#446	bottom 9%
Save rate	0.022%	#428	bottom 13%

Growth

One read so far

Views4.6K

Age at our read76 days

Views per day of life60views 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 · Jul 28, 2026

@ArtificialAnlys charts cost per hour of input audio by model

A bar chart of cost per hour of input audio by model drew 4.6K views and a 0.35% engagement rate.

What happened

@ArtificialAnlys posted a bar chart on July 28, 2026 titled Cost per Hour of Input Audio by Model. It was the account's only post that day.

The numbers

It reached 4.6K views, #969 of 1,162 AI chart posts, against a median of 39.9K. Its score of 12 ranks #478 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts.

The lesson

A save rate of 0.022% sits at the 10th percentile among AI chart posts, against a median of 0.076%. The chart shows printed values from $1.42 to $3.

What it means

At 0.40x this company's median of 11.4K views, the post ranks #349 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts by views. The gap to the 39.9K median among AI chart posts is 4.6K against 39.9K.

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

19 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 77%

Group	Value	Read
Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio Dialog	1.42 $	printed
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview -	1.5 $	printed
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Preview - High	1.75 $	printed
Qwen3-Omni Instruct (Flash)	1.77 $	printed
Qwen3-Omni A3B Instruct	2.26 $	printed
Grok Voice Fast 1.0	3 $	printed
Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0	3 $	printed
GPT-Realtime Mini (Oct'25)	3.04 $	printed
GPT-Realtime-2 (Mini)	3.07 $	printed
GPT-Realtime-2 (High)	3.45 $	printed
GPT-Realtime-2 (High)	4.14 $	printed
Qwen Audio 3.0 Alibaba Cloud	4.42 $	estimated

Showing 12 of 19. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/e2bd4fe6e532.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/e2bd4fe6e532.json
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GET	`/api/v1/charts/e2bd4fe6e532/data`	Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV	Max
GET	`/api/v1/charts/e2bd4fe6e532/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

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Claude CodeMax

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