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@arenaX · Sep 8, 2026

Text-to-Image Arena Rankings

@arena's leaderboard drew 213.5K views on X: 4.6x its median post and #253 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold by views. Read Oct 13, 2026.

GPT Image 2.5 tops text-to-image arena

XDataLeaderboardGPT Image (and DALL-E)All OpenAI modelsGPT Image 2.5 SunburstGPT Image 2.5 FlareGPT Image 2 (medium)MAI Image 2.6Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (low)Reve-2.1
Published by @arena on X, Sep 8, 2026. Source: x.com
73/ 100

ViralChart score

Reached and resonated

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

#162 of 1,162 AI chart posts we hold · #18 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 Reached and resonated quadrant, at #162 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

Its 214K views are 4.6x @arena's median post, ranking #43 of 239 @arena posts by views.

A score of 73 puts it at #162 of 1,162 AI chart posts and #18 of 239 @arena posts.

The post carries 3 charts, and every chart in the post shares the post's numbers.

4.6x@arena's median post

213.5K views, where @arena's typical post gets 46.2K.

3charts in this one post

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

4.7xthe median leaderboard post

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

2posts from @arena that day

Part of a run of 2 posts on Sep 8, 2026. This one was #1 of 2 by views that day.

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 #162 of 1,162

Views213.5K#253top 22%
Likes1.4K#214top 18%
Engagement rate0.75%#560top 48%
Save rate0.104%#404top 35%

Among 239 @arena posts

Score #18 of 239

Views213.5K#43top 18%
Likes1.4K#29top 12%
Engagement rate0.75%#103top 43%
Save rate0.104%#71top 29%

Growth

Our reads cover 23 hours

Views213.5K
Age at our read35 days
Views per day of life6.1Kviews divided by days since it was posted
Gained between our reads+35views over 23 hours, about 37 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 · Sep 8, 2026

@arena posts Text-to-Image Arena Rankings leaderboard

The September 8, 2026 leaderboard drew 214K views and a 0.75% engagement rate, above the AI chart median on both.

What happened

@arena posted Text-to-Image Arena Rankings on September 8, 2026, a leaderboard with 3 charts including Image Edit Arena Rankings and Multi-GPT-Image-2.5 Edit Arena. That day the account posted 2 posts, the other being Pareto Frontier for Code Arena at 44.4K views.

The numbers

It reached 214K views, #253 of 1,162 AI chart posts by views and #43 of 239 @arena posts. Its score of 73 ranks #162 of 1,162 AI chart posts.

The lesson

At 3 charts in one post, every chart shares the post's numbers, so the 214K views and 0.10% save rate belong to the set, not to one leaderboard.

What it means

At #18 of 239 @arena posts by score, this sits well inside the account's own range, while its 214K views run 4.6x the @arena median of 46.2K.

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

  1. Pareto Frontier for Code Arena44.4K views
  2. How Claude Models Write Language Markers55.6K views
  3. Agent Arena Spark 1.3 (Max) Ranked #1349.5K views
  4. Agent Arena Spark 1.3 (Max) Performance6.9K views
  5. Conceptual similarity to Claude222K views

Data and API

18 points read off this chart

Estimated from the image 79%
SeriesGroupValueRead
1 GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1421printed
2 GPT Image 2.5 Flare1399printed
3 GPT Image 2 (medium)1381printed
4 MAI Image 2.61331printed
5 Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (low)1315printed
6 Reve-2.11301estimated
7 Muse Image1277estimated
8 Reve-2.01270estimated
9 Nano Banana 21259printed
10 Seedream-5.0 Pro1255.5printed
11 Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1254printed
12 MAI Image 2.51252printed

Showing 12 of 18. All points, the redraw and the maker

Max plan · API

GET https://viral-chart.com/api/posts/fd4508dbf3dc.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/fd4508dbf3dc.json
GET https://viral-chart.com/api/charts/fd4508dbf3dc.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 fd4508dbf3dc.

See the Max planAPI docs
PathReturnsPlan
GET/api/v1/charts/fd4508dbf3dcTitle, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data linkOpen
GET/api/v1/charts/fd4508dbf3dc/dataEvery point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSVMax
GET/api/v1/charts/fd4508dbf3dc/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/fd4508dbf3dc/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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