OpenAI: GPT-5 Image✓ Catalog verified
GPT-5 Image combines OpenAI's GPT-5 model with state-of-the-art image generation capabilities. It offers major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience while incorporating GPT Image 1's superior instruction following, text rendering, and detailed image editing.
Overview
GPT-5 Image combines OpenAI's GPT-5 model with state-of-the-art image generation capabilities. It offers major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience while incorporating GPT Image 1's superior instruction following, text rendering, and detailed image editing.
Access: available through the official OpenAI API. Context window: 400K.
Specifications
| API identifier | openai/gpt-5-image |
| Provider | OpenAI |
| Model type | Multimodal LLM |
| Context window | 400K catalog |
| Input modalities | image · text · file |
| Output modalities | image · text |
| Released | Oct 14, 2025 |
| Tokenizer | GPT |
| Moderated | Yes |
| Architecture modality | text+image+file->text+image |
API defaults
{
"top_p": null,
"temperature": null,
"frequency_penalty": null
}Pricing
Live pricing components for openai/gpt-5-image as published in the catalog.
| Pricing component | Raw unit price | Normalized | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt tokens | $0.00001 | $10.00 / 1M | Per input token |
| Completion tokens | $0.00001 | $10.00 / 1M | Per output token |
| Request fee | N/A | N/A | Per request |
| Image fee | N/A | N/A | Per image unit |
| Web search fee | $0.01 | $0.010000 | Per search request |
Cost calculator
Estimate monthly spend from your own token volumes.
Estimated Total Cost
$7Calculated from current list pricing in the ModelsAtlas catalog.Capabilities
| Capability | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Understanding | ✓ Supported | Image and document analysis support |
| Audio Processing | Not advertised | Speech and voice aligned flows |
| Tool Calling | ✓ Supported | Supports tools / function calling |
| Self-Hosting | Not advertised | Deploy outside managed APIs |
Capability signals
Directional signals derived from model metadata and capability tags — not official benchmark submissions.
Quick start
Call OpenAI: GPT-5 Image through an OpenAI-compatible client.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-5-image",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum physics."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Alternatives
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta: Llama 4 Scout | Meta | 328K | $0.08 | View → |
| Amazon: Nova Lite 1.0 | Amazon | 300K | $0.06 | View → |
Head-to-head comparisons
Side-by-side breakdowns of OpenAI: GPT-5 Image against other frontier models.
Sources & attribution
Pricing and metadata are maintained in the ModelsAtlas catalog.
Frequently asked questions
How much does OpenAI: GPT-5 Image cost?
$10.00 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens on the official OpenAI API.
What is the context window of OpenAI: GPT-5 Image?
OpenAI: GPT-5 Image supports up to 400K tokens of context.
Does OpenAI: GPT-5 Image support tool / function calling?
Yes, OpenAI: GPT-5 Image supports tool / function calling — you can register tools and the model will emit structured tool calls.
How do I access OpenAI: GPT-5 Image?
Use the official OpenAI API with the model id `openai/gpt-5-image`. See the Quick start section above for code examples.