GPT Image 2.5 is an AI image generation and editing tool that turns text prompts, reference images, or rough sketches into polished visuals, and lets users refine them through multi-turn conversation.
What is GPT Image 2.5?
GPT Image 2.5 is OpenAI's image-generation and editing model family, released September 8, 2026, and offered through the Image 2.5 web app. It accepts text prompts, uploaded images, and sketches as input and produces finished images as output, supporting square, portrait, landscape, and custom dimensions up to 4K. It ships in two variants: Sunburst for editing precision and maximum quality, and Flare for fast everyday generation.
What makes GPT Image 2.5 stand out?
- Two model variants — Sunburst prioritizes editing precision and image quality, while Flare is optimized for speed in everyday generation.
- Up to 4K output — square, portrait, landscape, or custom dimensions within documented limits.
- Six quality modes — low, medium, high, xhigh, max, and auto, letting users trade latency and cost against final detail.
- Multiple output formats — PNG, JPEG, or WebP, with transparent backgrounds available for PNG and WebP.
- Reference-guided consistency — product and character references hold shape, materials, label structure, face, wardrobe, and proportions across a campaign or storyboard.
- Targeted editing — direct instructions or masks isolate a change to color, material, background, or styling while preserving the rest of the scene.
- Multi-turn iteration — refine an image across turns and compare deliberate changes instead of rebuilding from scratch.
- Improved text rendering — clearer layouts, callouts, spacing, and infographics, though final copy still needs review.
Who should use GPT Image 2.5?
- Product and campaign marketers: produce coordinated product shots, launch concepts, ad variations, and social crops while keeping visual identity consistent.
- Designers and illustrators: restyle scenes, recolor objects, replace backgrounds, extend compositions, or revise selected areas without remaking the whole image.
- Storytellers and storyboard artists: keep a recurring character's face, wardrobe, and mood connected as pose, framing, and action change across frames.
- Presenters and content creators: turn dense briefs into clearer visual hierarchies for explainers, posters, diagrams, and information-rich social posts.
What can you do with GPT Image 2.5?
- Product and campaign visuals: generate coordinated studio shots, lifestyle scenes, and ad variations from a product reference while holding onto recognizable shape, materials, and label structure.
- Infographics and structured layouts: build visual hierarchy, spacing, and callouts for explainers, presentations, posters, and diagrams.
- Characters, scenes, and storyboards: develop a recurring subject across scenes and plan visual beats for comics, films, or narrative concepts.
- Photo and design edits: replace a background, restyle a scene, recolor an object, extend a composition, or revise a selected area.
How does GPT Image 2.5 work?
Users choose Sunburst or Flare, then add a prompt and optional visual references, separating what should change from what must stay consistent. They set size, quality, and format, then generate, inspect text, hands, materials, layout, and identity details, and refine the most important change. Partial-image streaming provides progress previews where available, and complex prompts can take up to two minutes.
Pricing
Image 2.5 offers a new creator bonus of 100 free credits after signing in. Paid plans and credit packs support personal and commercial projects, subject to the terms of service and rights to uploaded source material.
FAQ
What is the difference between Sunburst and Flare?
Sunburst is the quality-first GPT Image 2.5 model for workflows where editing precision matters most. Flare is the fastest GPT Image 2.5 model, intend
