GPT Image (gpt-image-2)

OpenAI
class B live

OpenAI's natively-multimodal image model; strong text rendering and an inpaint edit endpoint. Flagship gpt-image-2 tops the arena.

Layer 1 — factual axes

API & price public · $0.011–$0.25/image (tiered); gpt-image-2 ~$0.21/image high official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Max resolution up to 1536×1024 official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Control text+image input; inpaint/edit; strong text rendering official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Weights closed official source ↗ 2026-07-04
Free tier limited (free in ChatGPT with caps; API paid) secondary source ↗ 2026-07-04

Layer 2 — output quality

Eligible for Best freeBest for API

OpenAI’s natively-multimodal image model; strong text rendering and an inpaint edit endpoint. Flagship gpt-image-2 tops the arena.

Data as of 2026-07-04 · verified 2026-07-04. One ruler for all tools. How we measure ↗