GPT Image 2
Key facts
- Released
- Apr 21, 2026
- What it does
- Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.
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- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.0”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $5.00
- per million tokensCached: $1.25
- Output
- $30.00
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 272K tokens
- about 200,000 words
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- Longest answer
- 128K tokens (about 96,000 words)
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Pictures, by people's votes#5 of 78
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst1,428
- 2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst1,406
- 3GPT-Image-2.5 Flare1,400
- 4GPT-Image-2.6 Flare1,383
- 5GPT Image 21,382
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-image
Compare GPT Image 2 with
It came out 126 days after GPT Image 1.5, the lab's previous model.
The details
Model ID: The exact name developers type to use a model, like gpt-5-mini. New IDs often show up in a lab's systems before the official announcement, which is how trckr spots many releases early.
openai/gpt-5.4-image-2gpt-image-2-2026-04-21Timeline
/OpenRouterFirst signal
/OpenAI APIOfficial
gpt-image-2-2026-04-21
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