GPT Image 2.5 Flare

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Model ID

gpt-image-2.5-flareopenai/gpt-image-2.5-flareopenai/gpt-image-2.5/flare/text-to-imageimage-2.5-flare

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• LMArena Text-to-Image 1,400

  #3 of 38 listed models · CI 1,395–1,406 · 57,645 votes

• LMArena Image Edit 1,485

  #2 of 34 listed models · CI 1,480–1,489 · 118,252 votes

• LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Nov 8, 2026
• changes we made

• Sep 8, 2026Release OpenAI releases GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and Flare OpenAI released GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and GPT Image 2.5 Flare for generation and editing via the Image API and Responses image tool. Both add xhigh and max quality and use GPT Image 2 token rates.

1. Nov 3, 2026 Now priced on Azure OpenAI in Foundry Input (Text tokens) $5.00 · Cache read (Text tokens) $1.25 · Input (Image tokens) $8.00 · Cache read (Image tokens) $2.00 · +1 more
2. Sep 26, 2026 New image model

• Changelog (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
• GPT Image 2.5 Flare model page (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 5, 2026
• OpenAI API pricing (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
• Image generation | OpenAI API (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 8, 2026
• openai/gpt-image-2.5-flare on Replicate (opens in a new tab) replicate.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
• openai/gpt-image-2.5/flare/text-to-image on fal.ai (opens in a new tab) fal.ai · checked Nov 3, 2026
• Image generation | OpenAI API (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 9, 2026
• Create image edit (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 6, 2026
• GPT-Image-2.5 Flare (opens in a new tab) developers.openai.com · checked Nov 10, 2026
• models.dev: openai/gpt-image-2.5-flare (community data, MIT) (opens in a new tab) github.com · checked Oct 10, 2026
• Azure OpenAI pricing (opens in a new tab) azure.microsoft.com · checked Nov 8, 2026

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Snapshots, the same family and other models from this provider

• GPT-Image-2.6 Flare
• GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst
• GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
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• Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 vs GPT Image 2.5 Flare