What GPT Image 2.5 costs, where it fails, and what it loses to
The price ladder nobody wrote about, the artifact the release did not fix, and comparisons in which every figure comes from a published rate card or a counted set of reports.
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ComparisonsGPT Image 2.5 vs GPT Image 2: What Actually Changed
OpenAI kept all three of GPT Image 2's price points and slid two new tiers in between them. The cheapest tier you'd actually ship went from 5.3¢ an image to 1.3¢ — and that, not picture quality, is the generational change.
Sep 9, 20268 min read
ComparisonsGPT Image 2.5 vs Nano Banana Pro: Where Each One Wins
These two lose to each other on different jobs, so there is no overall winner on this page. There is a routing table, the two jobs Nano Banana Pro wins — one of them not close — and what it costs to move either way.
Sep 9, 20267 min read
ComparisonsFlare vs Sunburst: Which One, and Why ChatGPT Won't Let You Choose
Two models, one price. Flare matches GPT Image 2 at roughly half the latency; Sunburst is the only one of the two rated above it. The whole decision is latency against the quality ceiling — money is not in it.
Sep 9, 20267 min read