GPT-5 Image
OpenAI · released Oct 14, 2025
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $10.00
- Output
- $10.00
- Cached
- $1.25
List price · per 1M tokens · OpenAI at 400K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Sep 1, 2026GPT-5 Image is a proprietary multimodal model from OpenAI that handles text, images and files across a 400,000-token working memory. It generates both text and images, with identical pricing across its two hosted providers.
Choose this for long-context image and document workflows where 400,000 tokens of working memory matters, or where consistent pricing across providers removes the need to shop for cost. Use it on OpenAI's own hosting if 97 tokens per second meets your speed needs. Skip it if you need verified benchmark scores to compare quality, or if you want to self-host or run the model privately.
The case for it
- 400,000-token request limit is among the largest we hold for any image-capable model.
- Identical pricing across both providers eliminates cost arbitrage.
The case against it
- No benchmark scores in our data — chat, reasoning, coding and vision quality are all unverified.
- Throughput is only confirmed for OpenAI; the second provider does not disclose it.
- Parameter count and architecture are undisclosed, so efficiency and capacity are unjudged.
How good is it?
We hold no score for this model.
So there is no figure here for everyday use, coding, agent work or writing. That is a gap in our data, not a low score.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 2 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
OpenAI, through OpenRouter
The lab is also the cheapest we hold. The strip above and this offer are the same one, so nothing on this page undercuts OpenAI on 400K of context.
- per 1M tokens
- $10.00 in / $10.00 out
- Context served
- 400K
- Throughput
- ~0 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $10.00 / $10.00checked 2 hours ago | 400K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| OpenAIThrough OpenRouter | $10.00 / $10.00checked 2 hours ago | 400K128K max reply | 0 tok/s | No | Yesunknown period | Unknown |
OpenRouterAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenAIThrough OpenRouter | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
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
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- No independent board has scored it, 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 does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
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
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text, images and documents in, text and images out
- Catalogue slug
- openai-gpt-5-image