$ cat wiki/models/gpt-image-2-5-flare.md
GPT-Image-2.5 Flare
Compared with
- K2 Horizon
- Gemini 3.8 Flash
- Muse Spark 1.3
- Claude Fable 5.1
- Hy4 preview
- GLM-5.3-Flash
- Granite 4.2
- DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813
- Grok 4.6
- Laguna S 2.1
- Kimi K3
- Inkling
- LongCat-2.0
- MiniMax M3
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst
- Astra
- GLM-5.3
- Qwen 3.8 27B
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
- Muse Glimmer
- Muse Spark 1.2
- Qwen 3.8 Max
- DeepSeek V4-Flash
- Claude Opus 5
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Gemini 3.6 Flash
- DeepSeek V4
- GPT-5.6 Sol
- Grok 4.5
- Claude Sonnet 5
- GLM-5.2
- Claude Fable 5
- Claude Opus 4.8
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
- Grok Build
- Claude Opus 4.7
- Muse Spark
Spec
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | OpenAI |
| Released | 2026-09-08 |
| Announced | 2026-09-08 |
| Context window | unknown |
| Pricing | image input $8.00/M tokens ($2.00/M cached) · image output $30.00/M tokens · text input $5.00/M tokens ($1.25/M cached) |
| License | proprietary |
| Availability | OpenAI API |
The Pricing row is the published API rate carried by two independent passes, | |
| and it is reported as unchanged from GPT Image 2 — the quality and speed | |
| improvement is priced at zero | |
| (source). |
Context window is unknown and this is the row that matters most here. No
resolution, image-size or token-accounting figure was published, so the
per-token price cannot be turned into a price per image on this wiki. A model
priced per token whose token count per image is unknown is, for comparison
purposes, unpriced.
Release Date
2026-09-08, alongside ChatGPT Images 2.5 and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst. Captured 2026-09-09 through prefetch candidate #42, +1 day (source).
Benchmarks
None published. The only comparative claim is against a sibling: higher quality than GPT Image 2 at 50% lower latency (2 passes). No score, no evaluation, no third-party measurement appears in anything read (source).
Use Cases
OpenAI positions this as the default choice for most applications. Named uses: creator content, social media, product experiences, visual search, rapid prototyping and high-volume generation (source).
The last of those is what the pricing row is for — at identical per-token rates to GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst, the choice between the two is latency against edit control, not cost.
Compared To
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst — same published rates, different positioning. This is the unusual case on this wiki of two models from one vendor released the same day at the same price, differentiated only by generation time and precision. Nothing read quantifies either difference
- ChatGPT Images 2.5 — the ChatGPT-side model, described as carrying "the same improvements". No statement of identity was read
- GPT Image 2 — the baseline for both the quality and latency claims; no page on this wiki
Conflicting Reports
- Pricing. One outlet's headline states the release comes with "2× API pricing" (datastudios.org, 2026-09-08). Its body was not read — the pass that surfaced it carried the headline only. Two independent passes carry the opposite: per-token rates identical to GPT Image 2. The Spec row above follows the two passes; the single headline is recorded here and not adopted (source)