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Why use GPT-5 Image on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers GPT-5 Image with pay-as-you-go pricing at $10.00/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Input / 1M
$10.00
Output / 1M
$10.00
Cache
read $1.25
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackInstall
Use the provider REST API or SDKAuth
Create a provider API keyCall
model: openai/gpt-5-imageModel ID
openai/gpt-5-imageRequest example
Curated snippets for this provider are not sourced yet. Use OpenRouter documentation with model ID
openai/gpt-5-image.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "openai/gpt-5-image", not the LLMReference slug "gpt-5-image".
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $10.00 |
| Output tokens | $10.00 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool use
About GPT-5 Image
GPT-5 Image combines OpenAI's GPT-5 language model with state-of-the-art image generation, enabling both text understanding and image creation within a single 400K context model.
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Model Specs
Released2025-10-01
Context400k
ArchitectureDecoder Only