LLM Reference

GPT Image 2.5 Flare

Released
2026-09-08
Last refreshed
2026-09-09
Status
Researched today
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalVision

GPT Image 2.5 Flare is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
GPT Image
Released
2026-09-08
Architecture
Autoregressive Image
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by
OpenAIOpenAI

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
-

Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API

Providers(1)
OpenAI API
View 1 provider route
Links
Website

About

GPT Image 2.5 Flare is OpenAI's fastest GPT Image 2.5 model for high-quality everyday image generation, released September 8, 2026. It accepts text and image inputs and produces image outputs, with low through max quality settings. Available via the Image API (model ids gpt-image-2.5-flare and dated snapshot gpt-image-2.5-flare-2026-09-08) and as the Responses API image generation tool model. OpenAI API multimodal token pricing: text input $5.00 / cached $1.25, image input $8.00 / cached $2.00, image output $30.00 per 1M tokens.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
OpenAI API--
ServerlessPartial

Available via routers & gateways(15)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-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.

Free OSSOpenAI API

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.

PassthroughOpenAI API

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

AIRouter

Router

Commercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.

Passthrough + feeOpenAI API

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-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.

SubscriptionOpenAI API

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningPrompt Caching

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

gpt-image-2.5-flaregpt-image-2.5-flare-2026-09-08