Text-to-image · all categories · quality=max
95% CI 1,197.2–1,217.2 · n=12,120
openaiReleased Sep 8, 2026
GPT Image 2.5 Flare Text to Image
General-purpose GPT Image 2.5 tier with transparent output, custom dimensions and five explicit quality levels.
Source description
OpenAI's default image model for most applications. Fast, high-quality generation with natural lighting, rich textures, and support for complex layouts including transparent backgrounds.
Context window400K
Max output360K
Provider endpoints1
Benchmark results1
Measured performance
All leaderboards ↗Benchmark results
Access & cost
1 quote · 3 price componentsPrices across providers
- Text input
- $5.00USD / 1M tokens
- Image input
- $8.00USD / 1M tokens
- Image output
- $30.00USD / 1M tokens
Input/reference charges are listed separately. · Billing component; not a complete generation price.
Model specifications
- Developer
- openai
- Modality
- Image
- Context
- 400,000 tokens
- Maximum output
- 360,000 tokens
- Weights
- Not reported
- Released
- Sep 8, 2026
- Provider listed
- Sep 8, 2026
- First discovered
- Oct 16, 2026
Exact identities
- openrouter
openai/gpt-image-2.5-flare - fal
openai/gpt-image-2.5/flare/text-to-image - aa-image
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Sources
Updated Oct 18, 2026
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