GPT Image 2.5 (Sunburst and Flare)
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The facts
- Version
- 2.5
- Price
- Price not verified. Open the tool record for the available pricing sources.
- API
✓Supported - Open weights
✕Not supported - Commercial use
- yes
- Text rendering in image
?Not verified OpenAI's own docs pages reached did not state text-rendering behaviour; the predecessor GPT Image 2 tops llm-stats' blind-vote image leaderboard with an arena score of 506
Source for Text rendering in image (opens in a new tab)- Image editing/inpainting
✓Supported Generation and editing in one model; up to 16 reference images per request
Source for Image editing/inpainting (opens in a new tab)- Character consistency
✓Supported OpenAI's release claims better reference-photo preservation and up to 50% lower latency than 2.0
Source for Character consistency (opens in a new tab)- Commercial licence
✓Supported Commercial use permitted under the OpenAI API terms
Source for Commercial licence (opens in a new tab)
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