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OpenAI's GPT Image 2 is a specific image-generation model release used for generating and editing visual assets, including reference-driven product imagery and storyboard frames.

Pricing

Official site · Sep 6, 2026, 1:09 PM
Input / 1M
$8.00
Output / 1M
$30.00
Cached input / 1M
$2.00

Image-token pricing only. OpenAI separately lists text input at $5.00 per 1M tokens and cached text input at $1.25 per 1M tokens; no text output rate is listed in this product entry.

OpenAI’s API pricing page lists GPT-Image-2 image-token rates: $8.00 per 1M input tokens, $2.00 per 1M cached-input tokens, and $30.00 per 1M output tokens. The model page identifies it as an image-generation model.

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Model Intelligence

Arena ranking
13
Benchmarkable
Yes
Model level
release
Intelligence Index
12.6
Math Index
14.7
MMLU Pro
0.65
GPQA
0.43
HLE
0.04
LiveCodeBench
0.23
SciCode
0.23
MATH-500
0.79
AIME
0.12
AIME 2025
0.15
IFBench
0.31

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