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GPT Image 2
Released Apr 21, 2026
The OpenAI image model behind ChatGPT Images 2.0, for generation and editing with flexible sizes and high-fidelity image inputs. Superseded by GPT Image 2.5.
- Price per image
- $0.21
- Max resolution
- 3840x2160
- AA arena Elo
- 1172
- LMArena Elo
- 1383
- Capabilities
- text to image, editing, inpainting, reference images
- Licence
- Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Custom sizes up to 3840px on the long edge, including 3840x2160
- All image inputs processed at high fidelity
- #3 on both the Artificial Analysis and LMArena text-to-image leaderboards (2026-10-14)
Weaknesses
- $0.211 per 1024x1024 image at high quality
- Superseded by GPT Image 2.5 Flare/Sunburst
Release date from the OpenAI announcement (April 21, 2026), which matches the snapshot date. In the top 10 on both leaderboards despite being superseded. AA scored the "high" setting and LMArena the "medium" setting. The OpenAI models overview now lists only the 2.5 models as current, but no deprecation date is published for gpt-image-2.
Links
API model strings
- openai
gpt-image-2 - openai
gpt-image-2-2026-04-21