GPT-Image-1

GPT-Image-1 has a dedicated page in OpenAI's developer documentation model catalog, where it is listed alongside other text, code, and structured-output guides, signaling its place within OpenAI's broader generative lineup. Third-party creative-tooling coverage from IMG.LY frames the model as an image generation API aimed at creative workflows, positioning it as a practical option for product teams building visual content features rather than a general-purpose text model. Because the supplied evidence only captures catalog-index confirmation and a blog reference, any deeper claims about training scale, architectural lineage, benchmark performance, or specific capability ranges should be treated as unverified. Teams evaluating this model should consult the live OpenAI documentation page and official pricing reference for current details on modality support, context behavior, and integration patterns before production adoption.

For practitioners, the documented presence in OpenAI's model catalog means GPT-Image-1 fits into standard API request patterns used across the OpenAI ecosystem, which simplifies integration for teams already running other OpenAI-backed services. The IMG.LY creative-guide context suggests the model is best suited to design and media pipelines where generated imagery is the primary output rather than multimodal reasoning tasks. Readers seeking verifiable technical specifications should pull the live model card directly, since the available excerpts confirm existence and positioning but do not provide the parameter counts, benchmark scores, or training-recipe context needed to compare this model against other image generators in the field.

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Provider: Azure
Model key: gpt-image-1
Release date: Apr 24, 2025
Last updated: Apr 24, 2025
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Input token cost: $5.00
Output token cost: $40.00

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Latest news about GPT-Image-1

OpenAI

Official sourceAnnouncement

On April 23, 2025, OpenAI introduced gpt-image-1 to the API, the natively multimodal model that powered ChatGPT's image generation and had produced over 700 million images for 130 million users in its first week. The model creates images across diverse styles, follows custom guidelines, leverages world knowledge, and accurately renders text for professional-grade output. Leading partners including Adobe (Firefly and Express), Canva (Canva AI and Magic Studio), and GoDaddy (GoDaddy Airo) were already integrating gpt-image-1 for design, logo creation, and editing workflows. The API release gave developers and businesses direct access to the same image generation capabilities used inside ChatGPT, enabling integration into their own tools and platforms across creative, e-commerce, education, enterprise software, and gaming domains. Early use cases highlighted in the announcement include transforming rough sketches into graphic elements in Canva, generating editable logos with background removal in GoDaddy, and offering creators flexible aesthetic style choices through Adobe's ecosystem. The announcement positioned gpt-image-1 as unlocking practical, high-fidelity image generation for production applications.

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Microsoft announced GPT-image-1's arrival in Azure AI Foundry on April 23, 2025, making the OpenAI image generation model available to gated customers via API, with a playground rollout planned the following week. The post is authored by Steve Sweetman, VP of Product Management for Foundry Models, framing the launch as Azure-hosted availability for the model. The model supports text-to-image, image-to-image generation, text-driven transformation, and inpainting with user-drawn bounding boxes, and accepts uploaded images alongside text prompts. Key improvements cited over DALL-E include granular instruction following, reliable in-image text rendering, and image-input acceptance, targeting use cases such as educational materials, storybook illustration, game asset production, and UI design.

OpenAI

Official sourceDocumentation

OpenAI's developer documentation describes GPT-Image-1 as a natively multimodal language model accepting text and image inputs and producing image outputs, with a performance tier labeled "High" at the slowest speed. Pricing is token-based with text input at $5.00 per million tokens ($1.25 cached) and image input at $10.00 per million tokens ($2.50 cached), plus image output at $40.00 per million tokens. Per-image generation costs range from $0.011 (low quality, 1024×1024) up to $0.25 (high quality, 1536×1024 or 1024×1536). The model is exposed across multiple API endpoints including Image generation (v1/images/generations), Responses, Chat Completions, and Batch, with text and image input modalities and image output only; audio and video are not supported. The docs page currently labels GPT-Image-1 as "Our previous image generation model," indicating it has since been superseded in OpenAI's catalog by a newer image model. The page links to a Playground for hands-on testing of the named model.