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Text-to-image and editing with strong instruction following and text rendering.

50

Trust score · Mixed

1 data point checked · 2026-11-07

Model stack: UnverifiableEntry price: UnverifiableVersion: DisputedHow this works →

Current version

dall-e-3

Entry cost

from $20/mo

Changes / 30d

0

The short answers

What is the latest version of GPT Image?
The current shipped version of GPT Image is dall-e-3.
How much does GPT Image cost?
GPT Image starts at $20 per month on its cheapest paid tier.
What AI model does GPT Image use?
GPT Image runs primarily on GPT Image 1.5.

Source: OpenAI — openai.com · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • Text rendering
  • Image editing
  • Reference images
  • Transparent backgrounds
  • Streaming previews
  • Image generation
  • Vision / Image analysis
  • Multimodal processing
  • API access
  • Vision / image analysis
  • Multimodal inputs
  • Instruction following
  • image generation
  • image editing
  • vision
  • image analysis
  • vision capabilities
  • multimodal inputs
  • vision analysis
  • multimodal input
  • image input
  • image_generation
  • multimodal
  • image inputs
  • Vision analysis
  • image understanding
  • Image inputs
  • Vision
  • image vision
  • image-generation
  • image-to-image
  • image-editing
  • Image analysis
  • image_editing
  • Image input
  • Vision fine-tuning

Pricing

  • ChatGPT Free

    Free

  • ChatGPT Plus

    $20

  • API

    per image

    Free

Entry price over time

8 of 35 points reconstructed from Internet Archive captures (hollow dots) — dated by capture, not by when we first saw the page. View a capture

11/20/2021 · $010/17/2026 · $20

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • DALL-E

    OpenAI

    inferred

  • DALL-E 3

    OpenAI

    inferred

  • dall-e-2

    OpenAI

    inferred

  • GPT Image

    OpenAI

    unknown

  • GPT Image 1.5

    OpenAI

    disclosed

  • GPT-4o

    OpenAI

    inferred

  • gpt-5.6

    OpenAI

    disclosed

  • gpt-6-astra

    OpenAI

    inferred

  • gpt-image-2

    OpenAI

    disclosed

  • gpt-image-2.5-sunburs

    OpenAI

    disclosed

  • gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    OpenAI

    disclosed

Context window

n/a

Public API

yes

Multi-model routing

yes

Stack signals

  • REST API

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • version

    GPT Image moved to dall-e-3

    DALL-E 3dall-e-3

    source
  • version

    GPT Image moved to DALL-E 3

    gpt-image-2.5-sunbursDALL-E 3

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Vision fine-tuning

    35 tracked36 tracked · +Vision fine-tuning

    source
  • version

    GPT Image moved to gpt-image-2.5-sunburs

    gpt-image-2.5-sunburstgpt-image-2.5-sunburs

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added gpt-image-2.5-sunburs to its model stack

    DALL-E, DALL-E 3, GPT Image, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, dall-e-2, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburstDALL-E, DALL-E 3, GPT Image, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, dall-e-2, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburs, gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added dall-e-2 to its model stack

    DALL-E, DALL-E 3, GPT Image, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburstDALL-E, DALL-E 3, GPT Image, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, dall-e-2, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added GPT Image to its model stack

    DALL-E, DALL-E 3, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburstDALL-E, DALL-E 3, GPT Image, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added DALL-E to its model stack

    DALL-E 3, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburstDALL-E, DALL-E 3, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added DALL-E 3, GPT-4o to its model stack

    GPT Image 1.5, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburstDALL-E 3, GPT Image 1.5, GPT-4o, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Image input

    34 tracked35 tracked · +Image input

    source
  • version

    GPT Image moved to gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    gpt-image-2gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added gpt-image-2.5-sunburst to its model stack

    GPT Image 1.5, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2GPT Image 1.5, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2, gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image_editing

    33 tracked34 tracked · +image_editing

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added gpt-6-astra to its model stack

    GPT Image 1.5, gpt-5.6, gpt-image-2GPT Image 1.5, gpt-5.6, gpt-6-astra, gpt-image-2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Image analysis

    32 tracked33 tracked · +Image analysis

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image-generation, image-to-image, image-editing

    29 tracked32 tracked · +image-generation, image-to-image, image-editing

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image vision

    28 tracked29 tracked · +image vision

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Image inputs, Vision

    26 tracked28 tracked · +Image inputs, Vision

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image understanding

    25 tracked26 tracked · +image understanding

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Vision analysis

    24 tracked25 tracked · +Vision analysis

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image inputs

    23 tracked24 tracked · +image inputs

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multimodal

    22 tracked23 tracked · +multimodal

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image_generation

    21 tracked22 tracked · +image_generation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image input

    20 tracked21 tracked · +image input

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: multimodal input

    194

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: vision analysis

    183

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: vision capabilities, multimodal inputs

    164

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image generation, image editing, vision

    124

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added gpt-5.6 to its model stack

    GPT Image 1.5, gpt-image-2GPT Image 1.5, gpt-5.6, gpt-image-2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Vision / image analysis, Multimodal inputs, Instruction following

    95

    source
  • version

    GPT Image moved to gpt-image-2

    GPT Image 1.5gpt-image-2

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added gpt-image-2 to its model stack

    GPT Image 1.5GPT Image 1.5, gpt-image-2

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Image generation, Vision / Image analysis, Multimodal processing

    55

    source
  • version

    GPT Image 1.5 released with better text rendering

    GPT Image 1GPT Image 1.5

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Image Generation, Image Editing

    3 tracked5 tracked · +Image Generation, Image Editing

    source
  • version

    GPT Image moved to DALL·E 3

    DALL·EDALL·E 3

    source
  • model

    GPT Image added DALL·E 2, DALL·E 3 to its model stack

    DALL·EDALL·E, DALL·E 2, DALL·E 3

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: image generation, image editing, api access

    3 tracked6 tracked · +image generation, image editing, api access

    source
  • version

    GPT Image moved to DALL·E

    —DALL·E

    source
  • pricing

    Entry price increased to $0.016/mo

    $0$0.016

    source
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How to cite this page

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APA
Tomorrow. (2026). GPT Image — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/dall-e
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-dall-e,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {GPT Image — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/dall-e}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}