gpt image · openai · images
GPT Image: the brief, followed to the letter.
OpenAI's image models for detailed instructions, accurate text and edits to the part you paint.
- made by
- OpenAI
- versions
- 2
- from
- 8 tokens
- included on
- Starter+
best at
What GPT Image is good at
GPT Image is OpenAI's image generator, the one behind images in ChatGPT. Its strength is reading a long brief and keeping track of all of it: six labelled rooms in a cutaway house, a menu with the right items and prices, a four-panel comic where the cat is the same cat in every panel. Where other models drift after the third requirement, GPT Image tends to remember the eighth.
It also handles words well. Signs, packaging, chalkboards, diagrams with labels: the text usually comes out spelled the way you wrote it, which saves a round trip to a design tool.
Editing works two ways. Describe a change to the whole image, or paint over an area and only that part is redone. On LazySusan you also choose quality per image, so drafts can be cheap and the final version can take its time.
The trade-off is that careful costs more. High-quality images are among the pricier single images in the workspace, and the look is clean rather than moody. For atmospheric photography, FLUX often gets there with fewer words; for quick edits to a photo, Nano Banana is cheaper per try.
versions
GPT Image versions on LazySusan
| Version | Use it for |
|---|---|
| GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | The best quality, for text, detailed scenes and editing. The default. |
| GPT Image 2.5 Flare | Faster generation at the same price per image. |
pricing
What GPT Image costs on LazySusan
| Generation | Tokens |
|---|---|
| Low quality, square | 8 |
| Medium quality, square | 64 |
| Medium quality, landscape or portrait | 50 |
| High quality, square | 254 |
| High quality, landscape or portrait | 198 |
| Medium quality edit, square | 79 |
Sunburst and Flare share one price list. "Auto" quality is billed as medium. Editing adds 15 tokens for reading your image.
Every plan includes GPT Image. Starter is $8 a month with 1,000 tokens; unused tokens roll over while you're subscribed. Compare plans.
prompts
Prompts to try with GPT Image
// menu
A hand-lettered chalkboard menu for a corner bakery, listing croissant, sourdough and rye with prices
// diagram
Isometric cutaway of a two-story tiny house, labeled rooms, soft pastel palette
// comic
A four-panel comic of a cat learning to use a laptop, clean line art, the same cat in every panel
// packaging
Front of a cereal box called "Morning Orbit", planets as cereal pieces, playful type, nutrition panel on the side
// product
Product shot of a glass perfume bottle on wet black stone, single rim light
tips
Getting better results
- 01Write the brief as a list. Numbered requirements are easier for GPT Image to check off than one long sentence.
- 02Put exact wording in quotes and say where it goes: the headline "Grand Opening" across the top in bold serif.
- 03Draft at low quality (8 tokens square) to settle the composition, then render the final at medium or high.
- 04To fix one area, paint it in Edit instead of regenerating. The rest of the picture stays as it was.
alternatives
When to pick a different tool
- Nano Banana if you're making many quick edits to the same photo and want a lower price per image.
- Ideogram if you want typography-led designs with style presets, or to reframe and upscale in one place.
- FLUX if photographic realism matters more than following a long brief.
- ChatGPT if you'd rather talk the idea through first and write the image prompt together.
also on the api
GPT Image in your own app
Generate GPT Image pictures from your own code with the same request shape as Nano Banana or FLUX.
One key, our SDKs for JavaScript and Python, prepaid credits with no subscription. LazySusan API · docs
faq
GPT Image on LazySusan: questions
Yes. GPT Image 2.5 is included in every LazySusan plan, from Starter at $8 a month. You don't need an OpenAI account.
Sunburst gives the best quality and is the default. Flare is faster. They cost the same per image, so choose by whether you value speed or the last bit of detail.
It depends on quality and shape. A square image is 8 tokens at low, 64 tokens at medium and 254 tokens at high quality. The price is shown before you generate.
Yes, and it's one of its strengths. Put the exact words in quotes and say where they go. Check spelling on long passages before you publish.
Square (1024×1024), landscape (1536×1024) and portrait (1024×1536). Landscape and portrait cost slightly less than square at the same quality.
Yes. In Edit, add the image, press the brush and paint the area to change, then describe what should go there.
Yes. GPT Image 2.5 and GPT Image 2.5 Fast are in the developer API, called with one key and the LazySusan SDK, on a prepaid balance with no subscription.
get started
GPT Image and every other model, one plan.
One login, one bill and one Library for everything you make, with the right model for each part of the job.
Starter is $8/month. Cancel anytime.