Image 2.5 is an AI image generation and editing tool, based on the GPT Image 2.5 model family. According to official information, GPT Image 2.5 is OpenAI's image generation and editing series, released on September 8, 2026, accepting text and image inputs, and generating images through two variants, Sunburst and Flare.
Uses Image 2.5 can be used to create and edit images. Users can start from text, images, or rough sketches, generate new artwork, make precise edits, preserve important details, and iterate without rebuilding an idea from scratch. It is suitable for scenarios such as product and marketing visuals, infographics and structured layouts, character scenes and storyboards, and photo and design editing.
Main capabilities
- Model variants: Sunburst focuses on editing precision and the highest image quality; Flare focuses on fast, high-quality everyday generation.
- Input methods: Supports text prompts, one or more visual reference images, and rough sketches.
- Editing capabilities: Can change settings, style, objects, or composition while preserving details that should remain recognizable; supports isolating changes using direct instructions or masks, adjusting colors, materials, backgrounds, or styles.
- Sizes and formats: Supports recommended square, landscape, and portrait sizes, as well as custom sizes up to 4K within document limits; output can be PNG, JPEG, or WebP, with PNG and WebP supporting transparent backgrounds.
- Quality modes: Supports six quality settings: low, medium, high, xhigh, max, and auto.
- Multi-turn iteration: Can refine images across multiple turns in a continuous conversation, use reference images to guide the next version, and compare intentional changes.
- Consistency and layout: With product references, can keep a product's shape, material, and label structure consistent across a series; can keep character faces, clothing, proportions, and mood coherent across a sequence; can create visual hierarchy, spacing, annotations, and important information, with improved text rendering, but final copy still requires review.
- Streaming preview: Streams partial previews when available.
How to use
- Choose Sunburst or Flare: Choose Sunburst when you need editing precision and the highest image quality; choose Flare when you need fast, high-quality everyday generation.
- Add prompts and visual references: Start with text, upload images, or provide sketches; distinguish between what should change and details that must remain consistent.
- Set size, quality, and format: Choose automatic or custom size, select a quality level, and inSupport for PNG, JPEG, or WebP with opaque or transparent backgrounds when in use.
- Generate, inspect, and refine: check text, hands, materials, layout, and identity details; when available, stream partial previews, then refine the most important changes.
Use cases
- Product and marketing visuals: create coordinated product images, launch concepts, ad variants, and social crops while keeping key visual identity consistent.
- Infographics and structured layouts: turn dense briefs into clearer visual hierarchies for explainers, presentations, posters, charts, and information-rich social posts.
- Characters, scenes, and storyboards: develop recurring motifs within scenes and plan visual beats for comics, film, presentations, or narrative concepts.
- Photo and design editing: replace backgrounds, restyle scenes, recolor objects, extend compositions, or modify selected areas without redoing the entire image.
Limitations and considerations
- Complex prompts may still take up to two minutes.
- Text rendering has improved, but final copy still needs review.
- Every result should be reviewed, including text, hands, materials, layout, and identity details.
- For commercial use, paid plans and credit packs support personal and commercial projects, subject to the terms of service and the user's rights to uploaded source materials; every output should be reviewed before publishing or delivery.
- Credits remain valid during the subscription period and can be canceled at any time.
- Specific prices, individual plan names, and detailed terms are not yet fully available.
Sign-up and credits Official materials mention that logging in grants 100 free credits to start creating. Paid plans offer monthly, annual, or one-time credit options, including different benefits such as workspace credits, concurrent generation batches, number of results per batch, and commercial licensing.
