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Compare model capabilities, trade-offs, and alternatives before choosing an API.

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API pricing

GPT Image 2.5 API pricing: what one image costs at each quality

GPT Image 2.5 bills image output at $30 per million tokens. Measured on real renders, a 1024×1024 image runs from about $0.006 at low to $0.21 at max on OpenAI.

TokLab2026/11/02

Flare

GPT Image 2.5 Flare vs Sunburst: what 23 renders told us

We ran GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst on the same prompts. Token counts matched at each level we compared, Sunburst was slower on one route, output was close.

TokLab2026/11/02