GPT-5 Image
OpenAI · released Oct 14, 2025
- Type
- Proprietary
- Input
- $10.00
- Output
- $10.00
- Cached
- $1.25
List price · per 1M tokens · OpenAI at 400K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Aug 2, 2026GPT-5 Image handles both image generation and long-document analysis in a single request, accepting text, images and files up to 400,000 tokens. It is a proprietary hosted-only model with no measured quality data yet, priced at a premium tier across both tracked providers.
Pick this when you need one endpoint that both generates images and reasons over mixed inputs within a very large request limit, or when unified billing across providers matters. Skip it if you want downloadable weights, verified quality scores, or a lower per-token cost.
The case for it
- 400,000-token request limit enables long-document analysis alongside image generation — unusually large for an image-capable model.
- Single endpoint accepts text, images and files, and outputs both text and images.
- Consistent pricing across both tracked providers, with no host-to-host variance.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores or independent quality verification to justify the premium tier.
- Only one provider discloses throughput; the other is unverified in our data.
- Weights are proprietary, parameter count is undisclosed, and licence terms are not published.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
We look for every model we track on every board we watch, and none of them has turned up GPT-5 Image — so there is no intelligence, coding, agentic or writing score to show you, not a low one, none.
Or rent it from someone else
Why this differs from the header. The strip above quotes OpenAI's own list price. This is the cheapest live offer at the widest standard context we hold, whoever is serving it — a reseller undercutting a lab is ordinary commerce, not an error.
- per 1M tokens
- $10.00 in / $10.00 out
- Context served
- 400K
- Throughput
- Not measured
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $10.00 / $10.00 | 400K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| OpenAI | $10.00 / $10.00 | 400K | 113 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
Across the 2 listings we hold: 1 say they do not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 do not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us rather than confirmed either way.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
- ✓
- Supported
- ✗
- Not supported
- Not published
- host gave no parameter list
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenAI | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.
Models people weigh against GPT-5 Image
When we formed this view
Dates behind this page
Prices last checked 9d ago
What we do not know about this model yet
- No board we watch has turned up a score, so we hold no quality figures at all.
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings do not say whether they train on prompts.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
Commercial API terms. We hold no licence record for this model, so there is nothing to summarise here.
Identifiers
- Modality record
- text+image+file->text+image
- Catalogue slug
- openai-gpt-5-image