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@ArtificialAnlysX · Apr 23, 2026

Text to Image: Quality vs API Price

@ArtificialAnlys's scatter plot drew 19.9K views on X: 1.7x @artificialanlys's median post and #719 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 12, 2026.

ELO score vs API price for image generation models

XDataScatter plotGPT Image (and DALL-E)All OpenAI modelsAlibaba CloudBlack Forest LabsBytePlusDeepInfrafal.aiGoogleOpenAIProdia
Published by @ArtificialAnlys on X, Apr 23, 2026. Source: x.com
56/ 100

ViralChart score

Small but loved

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

#533 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #166 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

Small but loved: views below the AI chart median, engagement above it, scoring #533 of 1,162.

Its 1.34% engagement rate sits at the 88th percentile, above the 0.73% median for all AI chart posts.

With 2 charts in the post, every chart shares the same numbers, a level factor for this post.

On launch day, it ranked #2 of 2 posts from this account, below the 267K-view leader.

2charts in this one post

The numbers belong to the post, so every chart in it shares them and it is ranked once.

top 12%engagement rate

1.34% of viewers liked, reposted, quoted or replied. The median post gets 0.73%.

top 15%save rate

0.166% of viewers bookmarked it to come back to. The median post gets 0.076%.

2posts from @artificialanlys that day

Part of a run of 2 posts on Apr 23, 2026. This one was #2 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 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 #533 of 1,162

Views19.9K#719bottom 38%
Likes250#607bottom 48%
Engagement rate1.34%#135top 12%
Save rate0.166%#174top 15%

Among 491 @artificialanlys posts

Score #166 of 491

Views19.9K#215top 44%
Likes250#174top 35%
Engagement rate1.34%#66top 13%
Save rate0.166%#88top 18%

Growth

One read so far

Views19.9K
Age at our read173 days
Views per day of life115views 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 · Apr 23, 2026

@ArtificialAnlys Text to Image Quality vs API Price

A scatter plot comparing ELO score to API price for 10 image generation models.

What happened

Published April 23, 2026, a scatter plot on Text to Image: Quality vs API Price, with 2 charts including Image Arena Quality ELO. Same day, the account posted 1 other chart, the 267K-view Intelligence Index v4.0.

The numbers

19.9K views, 250 likes, 1.34% engagement rate. Views rank #719 of 1,162 AI chart posts; engagement rank #135 of 1,162.

The lesson

Readers saved this scatter plot at 0.17% save rate, below the 0.73% median engagement. A clean table with 10 models may not drive saves, but the 88th-percentile engagement shows the format holds attention.

What it means

This post ranks #166 of 491 @ArtificialAnlys posts, below its own median views of 39.9K. The gap to the 267K same-day post shows a smaller topic can still earn high engagement, but not reach.

Written by ViralChart from public numbers read on Oct 12, 2026. Every number is checked against our data before it is shown.

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Data and API

20 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 41%
SeriesGroupValueRead
FLUX.2 [dev], DeepInfraMost attractive quadrant1350 ELOestimated
FLUX.2 [dev], fal.aiMost attractive quadrant1300 ELOestimated
grok-imagine-image, xAIMost attractive quadrant1400 ELOestimated
Z-Image Turbo, fal.aiMost attractive quadrant1200 ELOestimated
Z-Image Turbo, ReplicateMost attractive quadrant1100 ELOprinted
FLUX.2 [dev], Alibaba CloudMost attractive quadrant1150 ELOestimated
FLUX.1 [schnell] [fast], ProdiaMost attractive quadrant1000 ELOestimated
Seedream 4.0, BytePlusMost attractive quadrant1050 ELOestimated
Seedream 4.5, BytePlusMost attractive quadrant1100 ELOestimated
Qwen Image Plus 2601, Alibaba CloudMost attractive quadrant1050 ELOestimated
Imagen 4 Ultra, GoogleMost attractive quadrant1300 ELOestimated
FLUX.2 [max], Black Forest LabsMost attractive quadrant1200 ELOestimated

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

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/ebd62f9935d1.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/ebd62f9935d1.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/ebd62f9935d1.skill.md
Make one like thisOpen the post JSONChart data JSONSkill fileAPI 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 ebd62f9935d1.

Approximate values. Our two readings of this chart agreed only in part (confidence 0.41 of 1), so check the original before you quote a number. The API marks it lowConfidence, and ?min_confidence=0.5 leaves it out.

See the Max planAPI docs
PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/ebd62f9935d1Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/ebd62f9935d1/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/ebd62f9935d1/render?view=1The draw-only view this page usesOpen
POST/mcpTool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agentsMax
curlMax
curl -s https://viral-chart.com/api/v1/charts/ebd62f9935d1/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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