GPT Image 2.5 Flare
- Family
- GPT Image
- Released
- 2026-09-08
- Architecture
- Autoregressive Image
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API · cache read $1.25
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.
Providers(1)
Compare API pricing across 1 tracked provider route for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Batch in / out | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | $5.00 | $30.00 | $2.50 / $15.00 | read $1.25 | Serverless |
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 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction 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.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial 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.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
LMArena Text-to-Image ArenaPreliminary | 1,398 | text_to_image overall 2026-10-07Observed 2026-10-07 | Configuration: Overall leaderboard entry (unqualified board entry) Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry Evaluator: LMArena Confidence: confirmed Qualification: Preliminary (LMArena) Notes: Arena score 1398 (95% CI 1391-1404), 16,889 votes, rank 2 of 82, category overall, leaderboard published 2026-10-07. Board entry 'gpt-image-2.5-flare'. LMArena marks this score Preliminary. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-17. | Source Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0 |
LMArena Image Edit ArenaPreliminary | 1,481 | 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 Qualification: Preliminary (LMArena) Notes: Arena score 1481 (95% CI 1476-1486), 57,408 votes, rank 2 of 59, category overall, leaderboard published 2026-10-06. Board entry 'gpt-image-2.5-flare'. LMArena marks this score Preliminary. 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.
API versions
gpt-image-2.5-flaregpt-image-2.5-flare-2026-09-08Cheapest of 1 route · OpenAI API · cache read $1.25