Medium “LLM” tag statistics
How busy the LLM tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is friendly for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 6.6 days
Busier than 66% of 73 tracked tags
46% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 122 stories a day, LLM is busier than 66% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (4,922 followers per daily story) is higher than 15% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
66% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 46% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 35% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 8.2 minutes to read.
Publications that publish LLM stories
| Publication | Followers | LLM stories (last 6.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| Towards AI | 151K | 46 |
| Models to Systems | 9 | 14 |
| AI Simplified in Plain English | 2.5K | 14 |
| Artificial Intelligence in Plain English | 50K | 13 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 13 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 10 |
| Data Science Collective | 962K | 6 |
| MLWorks | 336 | 5 |
| JavaScript in Plain English | 182K | 5 |
| AlgoMart | 395 | 4 |
Top LLM stories right now
- The Terrifying Reason the AI Bubble Cannot Stop Inflating Until It Bursts
- The American DeepSeek Is Here, and It Just Beat Opus 5 on a Viral Test
- Most People Think AI Is Overhyped. They Have No Idea What’s Coming.
- Agentic AI in practice: How Jev cut our agent’s table lookup from 9 seconds to 1
- Agentic AI Production Strategies and Performance Trade-offs
- Route First, Retrieve Second
- Build a Live Incident Room App with ToolJet MCP and Jev
- Anthropic Engineers Don’t Use Giant CLAUDE.md Files. Here’s What They Do Instead
- I had a free Qwen3.8-27B agent copy 10 web pages. It spent 64% of its time measuring pixels
- Best Local LLMs for Frontend Prototyping in 2026: Qwen3.8, Gemma 4, Devstral
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the LLM tag on Medium?
- About 122 per day (851 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 6.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 80,676 stories in total.
- Is the LLM tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 66% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 4,922 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in LLM?
- 46% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is friendly for newcomers. 66% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.