GPT Image

Ships as two API models: Flare (speed - ~50% lower latency than GPT Image 2 at comparable quality) and Sunburst (quality - sharper detail, more natural lighting and texture, better preservation of people and products from reference photos, more reliable multi-turn editing). Both generate, edit and output transparent backgrounds

License

Proprietary

Commercial use

Allowed

Availability

Official API, Consumer app

API ids gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst; in ChatGPT for every tier and in Codex from launch day (product name ChatGPT Images 2.5). Seeded as one row for the pair.

Reasons before drawing; far more reliable text rendering including non-Latin scripts; up to 2K output and up to eight coherent images per prompt; convincing photorealism and UI screenshots

License

Proprietary

Commercial use

Allowed

Availability

Official API, Consumer app

Resolution

up to 2K

Model id gpt-image-2. API and Codex 2026-04-21, ChatGPT (all plans) 2026-04-22 under the product name ChatGPT Images 2.0. Transparent-background output added 2026-08.

Same model as ChatGPT 4o image gen made available via Images API; controllable moderation parameter; C2PA metadata embedded in all outputs; 130M users created 700M images in first week of ChatGPT launch

License

Proprietary

Commercial use

Allowed

Availability

Official API

Model ID

gpt-image-1

Native image generation embedded in GPT-4o; photorealistic output; image input and editing; accurate text in images; world knowledge for context-aware scenes; became ChatGPT's default image generator replacing DALL-E

License

Proprietary

Commercial use

Allowed

Availability

Consumer app