GPT Image

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closed(no weights are distributed

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Proprietary(OpenAI API terms

GPT Image is available only through OpenAI's API and ChatGPT. No weights, training data or code are published.

• https://community.openai.com/t/introducing-gpt-images-2-5-in-the-api-and-chatgpt/1395897 recorded 2026-09-26

  OpenAI Developer Community announcement: "ChatGPT Images 2.5 is rolling out today to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users across desktop, mobile, and web."

• https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/image-generation.md recorded 2026-09-26

  "The API lets you generate and edit images from text prompts using gpt-image-2.5-sunburst and gpt-image-2.5-flare"; access may require "API Organization Verification".

• https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models recorded 2026-09-26

  Models catalog: "GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst Our most capable model for image generation and editing"; served as API models with no download.

OpenAI publishes no usage figure for its image models on the pages that could be read, and a hosted model has no download count, so no reading was possible.

• https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog.md recorded 2026-09-26

  API changelog, read for a usage disclosure: release notes for GPT Image 2 and 2.5 and no usage figure.

OpenAI's GPT Image models hold the top three places on the text-to-image arena. They set the frontier every other image model here is measured against.

• https://artificialanalysis.ai/image/leaderboard/text-to-image recorded 2026-09-26

  Leaderboard entries "GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max)" (rank 1, Elo 1196.1), "GPT Image 2.5 Flare (max)" (rank 2) and "GPT Image 2 (high)" (rank 3).