GPT Image 1
GPT Image 1 is a legacy integration reference; evaluate GPT Image 1.5 before starting new work.
- Family
- GPT Image
- Released
- 2025-04-23
- Architecture
- Autoregressive Image
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API
This model is deprecated. OpenAI recommends switching to GPT Image 1.5.
About
GPT Image 1 is OpenAI's first publicly released autoregressive image generation model. Made available via the API on April 23, 2025 (ChatGPT launched it March 25, 2025 where it generated over 700 million images in the first week). Supports low, medium, and high quality tiers with per-image pricing at $0.011/$0.042/$0.167 for 1024×1024. Superseded by GPT Image 1.5 in December 2025.
Providers(1)
Compare published price / image across 1 tracked provider route.
| Provider | Price / image | Route |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | $0.042/image | Serverless |
Deprecated provider routes(1)
| Provider | Status | Catalog ID |
|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | DeprecatedRetired November 2, 2026 | openai/gpt-image-1 |
Available via routers & gateways(15)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router (branded "AI Router" on its site) that picks the best model per request via a Decision API or an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint, with a private selection mode that routes on anonymized patterns; sold as BYOK subscription plans priced by routed tokens.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Benchmark scores(2)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,115 | text_to_image overall 2026-10-26Observed 2026-10-27 | Configuration: GPT-Image-1 Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: LMArena text to image leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-26 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, latest split). Board entry 'GPT-Image-1': rank 49 of 82, Arena Score 1115.1 (95% CI 1112.0-1118.3), 268430 votes. LLM Reference model is lifecycle-deprecated; score kept as historical. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 | |
| 1,139 | image_edit overall 2026-10-06Observed 2026-10-06 | Configuration: Overall leaderboard entry (unqualified board entry) Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Notes: Arena score 1139 (95% CI 1136-1141), 2,869,941 votes, rank 55 of 59, category overall, leaderboard published 2026-10-06. Board entry 'gpt-image-1'. LLM Reference model is lifecycle-deprecated; score kept as historical. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-17. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API