GPT-Image-1

imagedeprecatedproprietary

Status: Shut down · Succeeded by gpt-image-2.5-sunburst

Intelligence
Speed
Input price
$5/1M tokens
Output price
—

Capabilities

Infrastructure
Batch Processing

Details

Provider OpenAI
Creator openai
Familygpt-image-1
Licenseproprietary
Statusdeprecated
Typeimage
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiesimage
Open weightNo
Parameters—
Architecture—
Max resolution—
Resolutions—
Aspect ratios—
Batch size—
Release date—
Deprecation date
Retirement date
Successorgpt-image-2.5-sunburst
Sourceofficial

Endpoints

ResponsesPOST
Stateful multi-turn conversationshttps://api.openai.com/v1/responses
BatchPOST
Async batch processing at lower costhttps://api.openai.com/v1/batches
Image GenerationPOST
Generate images from text promptshttps://api.openai.com/v1/images/generations
Image EditPOST
Edit images with text instructionshttps://api.openai.com/v1/images/edits

Pricing

Text tokensPer 1M tokens
InputCached input
Standard$5$1.25
Image tokensPer 1M tokens
InputCached inputOutput
Standard$10$2.5$40
Image generationPer image
Quality1024x10241024x15361536x1024
Low—$0.011$0.016$0.016
Medium—$0.042$0.063$0.063
High—$0.167$0.25$0.25

Family Comparison: gpt-image-1

ModelMax resolutionResolutionsAspect ratiosBatch sizePricing
GPT-Image-1 Mini————$2—
GPT-Image-1————$5—

API

GET/v1/models/openai/gpt-image-1

GPT-Image-1

deprecated

Status: Shut down

gpt-image-1
Changes · 12 entries
gpt-image-1updateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM
nameGPT Image 1→GPT-Image-1
descriptionGPT Image 1 is a natively multimodal language model that ...→Status: Shut down
performance4→3
taglineOur previous image generation model→Retired image generation model
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...→[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...batch input$2.5
endpoints["batch","image_generation","image_edit","responses"]→["responses","batch","image_generation","image_edit"]
deprecation_date2026-04-22
retirement_date2026-10-23
successorgpt-image-2.5-sunburst
gpt-image-1updateb2f45bfOct 29, 2026, 03:29 AM
descriptionGPT Image 1 is a natively multimodal language model that ...→Status: Shut down
taglineOur previous image generation model→Retired image generation model
pricingtiers[{"label":"Image tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns"...→[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...
gpt-image-1update1a66bb0Sep 29, 2026, 06:40 AM
successorgpt-image-2→gpt-image-2.5-sunburst
gpt-image-1update118451aSep 24, 2026, 07:08 AM
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...→[{"label":"Image tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns"...batch input$2.5
endpoints["batch","image_generation","image_edit","responses"]→["responses","batch","image_generation","image_edit"]
deprecation_date2026-04-22
retirement_date2026-10-23
successorgpt-image-2
gpt-image-1update79684d6Sep 9, 2026, 06:38 AM
performance4→3
gpt-image-1updatee3d7dedAug 31, 2026, 04:13 AM
nameGPT Image 1→GPT-Image-1
gpt-image-1update6a1e7e3Apr 24, 2026, 02:41 AM
statusactive→deprecated
gpt-image-1updatef43e286Mar 24, 2026, 04:45 AM
capabilitiesstreamingnovisionnotool callnostructured outputnojson modenofine tuningnoreasoningnobatchyes
gpt-image-1update1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-image-1→https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-image-1
gpt-image-1update2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM
licenseproprietary
page_urlhttps://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-image-1
open_weightno
gpt-image-1updateb50649fMar 21, 2026, 11:58 PM
model_typeother→image
pricingtiers[{"label":"Text tokens","unit":"Per 1M tokens","columns":...
taglineOur previous image generation model
endpoints["batch","image_generation","image_edit","responses"]
snapshots["gpt-image-1"]
gpt-image-1create7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM