GPT Image 2.5 Price
$0.075 an image on the plan most people pick — and your first one is free, without an account. Every plan runs the real gpt-image-2.5, shows you the model ID on every result, and never charges you for a failed run.
Risk reversed
Four ways out, all of them written down
- 7-day refund on your first payment, while those credits are untouched or under 50 spent
- A failed run never costs credits — timeouts, moderation blocks and our own errors are all free
- No card and no account for your first image, on the real gpt-image-2.5
- Cancel in two clicks; the images you already made stay yours commercially, forever
Three plans, and a free tier that stays free
Same monthly credits either way. Yearly just costs less per month. Prices exclude VAT and local tax, calculated at checkout.
Same credits either way — yearly just costs less per month
Or buy credits once, and spend them slowly
Packs cost more per credit than a plan, and the reason is on the label: they last twelve months, where plan credits expire at the end of the month they are granted. The premium buys shelf life, not extras.
$29.90 once
800 credits · ≈ 133 standard images
Good for twelve months. No Think mode, no 2K, no private generations, no batch.
$29.90 a month
2,400 credits · ≈ 400 standard images
Plus Think mode, Ultra and 2K, private generations and four jobs at once.
Same price. The plan gives you three times the credits — the pack gives you time instead.
- Small pack
$11.90one-time
260 credits
Tops up any plan, or stands on its own
≈ 43 standard images (or 10 at HD)
Good for 12 months
- Medium pack
$29.90one-time
800 credits
Same price as a month of Pro, for a third of the credits
≈ 133 standard images (or 33 at HD)
Good for 12 months
- Large pack
$79.90one-time
2,400 credits
Exactly one month of Pro — which costs $29.90
≈ 400 standard images (or 100 at HD)
Good for 12 months
Plan credits are always spent first, so the ones with a deadline go before the ones without. Subscribers get 10% extra credits on every pack.
Four things the free image can’t do
Everything else — the real gpt-image-2.5, the model ID on your result, and not paying for failed runs — you get on the free tier too. These are the four that need a plan.
Free: badgedWatermark
Free images carry a small corner badge. Every paid plan removes it.
Free: personal onlyCommercial use
Free is personal use only. Paid plans include commercial rights — publish it, sell it, bill for it — and they stay yours after you cancel.
Free: 1K standardResolution
Free stops at Standard, 1K. Starter reaches HD, Pro reaches Ultra and 2K, Studio reaches Max and native 4K.
Free: last in lineThe queue
Free runs last and behind a captcha. That queue position is the cost control that lets a free tier exist at all. Paid runs first, with no captcha, and up to eight at a time.
No plan gates the model itself. A free image and a Studio image come from the same gpt-image-2.5.
GPT Image 2.5 price per image, at every quality tier
Four ways to get a GPT Image 2.5 image, priced the same way. The raw API is the cheapest of them and it is in the table rather than left out — the question the other three columns answer is what it costs you in work. Measured 2026-09-09.
Price per standard image
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- $0.075cheapest hosted
- A typical 2.5 site
- $0.133
- ChatGPT Plus
- Not sold separately
- Raw OpenAI API
- $0.013cheapest, if you build the rest
Runs the real gpt-image-2.5
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yes
- A typical 2.5 site
- Sometimes
- ChatGPT Plus
- Yes
- Raw OpenAI API
- Yes
Pick Flare (fast) or Sunburst (quality)
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yesonly hosted option that does
- A typical 2.5 site
- No
- ChatGPT Plus
- No
- Raw OpenAI API
- Yes
Model ID and timing on every result
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yesonly here
- A typical 2.5 site
- No
- ChatGPT Plus
- No
- Raw OpenAI API
- You build it
Generate before signing up
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yesonly here
- A typical 2.5 site
- No
- ChatGPT Plus
- No
- Raw OpenAI API
- No — org verification first
Keep-Intact editing
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yes
- A typical 2.5 site
- No
- ChatGPT Plus
- No
- Raw OpenAI API
- You build it
Transparent PNG, requested as a real alpha channel
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yes
- A typical 2.5 site
- No
- ChatGPT Plus
- No
- Raw OpenAI API
- You build it
A failed run never costs you
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yes
- A typical 2.5 site
- No
- ChatGPT Plus
- n/a
- Raw OpenAI API
- You carry the risk
Native 4K (3840×2160)
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yes, on Studio
- A typical 2.5 site
- Sometimes
- ChatGPT Plus
- No
- Raw OpenAI API
- Yes
Commercial rights on every paid plan
- GPTImage25 · Pro
- Yes
- A typical 2.5 site
- Sometimes
- ChatGPT Plus
- Yes
- Raw OpenAI API
- Yes
The second column is a competing GPT Image 2.5 site’s published plan on 2026-09-09: $24 a month yearly, 900 credits, 5 credits an image. It is left unnamed on purpose — the figure is checkable, and naming a rival adds risk without adding evidence. ChatGPT does not sell images individually or publish a per-image rate. The API column assumes you have OpenAI organization verification and your own queue, storage and front end.
On 2026-09-09 several sites ranking for “gpt image 2.5” were still serving GPT Image 2, or showed a Coming Soon button over a generator that did not run.
Your images, your business
Two questions people ask before they pay, answered before they have to ask: whether you can use these images commercially, and what happens to the ones you have already made if you stop paying. Both answers are below in full, and neither of them has an asterisk on it.
What happens to your images
Private by default on Pro
Your generations are not shown in any gallery and are not public. Free and Starter images stay unlisted too — we just do not guarantee it in writing.
We do not train on your images
Not us, and OpenAI’s API does not train on API inputs by default either.
Delete anything, anytime
One click per image, or wipe the account. Deletion is immediate.
How you pay, and what “no watermark” means
Cards and wallets, including UnionPay, Alipay and WeChat Pay
Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover, JCB, UnionPay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, SEPA, Alipay and WeChat Pay, in 20+ currencies.
Tax handled at checkout
Processed by Stripe and Creem. Creem is our merchant of record, so local VAT and sales tax are calculated and filed for you.
About that invisible watermark
OpenAI embeds C2PA metadata and an invisible watermark in every image this model produces. Every provider’s output carries it and nobody can strip it. When we say “no watermark”, we mean we do not stamp our own logo on your picture.
The corner badge on free images is ours and comes off on any paid plan. The C2PA signal is OpenAI’s and does not.
The exits, written down
How to leave, written down before you join. Cancel any time from the billing page and keep the credits you have already bought; nothing expires because you stopped subscribing. This is the section most pricing pages bury three clicks deep, which is exactly why it is the last thing here before you decide.
How a refund works
First subscription or first top-up pack. Once per account.
You pay
You subscribe, or buy a top-up pack.
Within 7 days
You decide it is not for you.
Credits untouched
The credits from that payment are still unspent.
Money back
No reason needed. In full as account credit, or to the card less the processing fees our processor keeps.
If a run fails
Every plan, including the free image. No ticket, no email.
The run fails
It errors, times out, or is blocked by moderation.
Credits come back
Automatically. The job shows no credits were used.
The one condition
Ask within 7 days, while those credits are untouched or under 50 spent. Fifty credits is about eight standard images — enough to judge the quality, and about eleven cents of exposure for us.
Refund window
7 days from first payment
Credits spent and still refundable
Up to 50
How to ask
One email, no form, no retention call
Refunded to
Your original payment method
A failed run
0 credits, every plan
Cancelling
Two clicks, runs to end of period
Images you already made
Yours commercially, forever
If we raise prices
Your rate is locked while subscribed
Plan credits expire at the end of the month they are granted; pack credits last twelve months. Cancelling does not claw back anything you already made.
What the GPT Image 2.5 price buys, and when credits go away
Every rule about credits in one place, including the ones that are not in our favour. What a credit buys, when a run is free because it failed, what happens to a monthly allowance you did not spend, and which balance is drawn down first. If a rule is not here, it is not a rule we enforce.
What a run costs
Fixed table, no surge pricing, no per-account variation.
A standard 1024×1024 image
6 credits. Draft is 3, HD is 24, Ultra is 42, Max is 96.
Bigger sizes
2K doubles the credits, 4K triples them. The full grid is in the cost table below.
Editing or image-to-image
+4 credits, which covers up to four reference images. Extras are 3 credits each — OpenAI bills image input on top of the output it returns.
Think mode (Sunburst)
The same price as Fast. Both models bill at $30 per million image output tokens, so the quality model is slower, not dearer.
A blocked or failed run
0 credits. Timeouts, moderation blocks and our own errors are all free, on every plan.
When credits arrive and expire
The part worth reading twice, because it is the one that surprises people.
Plan credits
Granted monthly and spent within that month. They expire at the end of the month they are granted — they do not carry forward.
Pack credits
Last twelve months from purchase. That shelf life is what the higher per-credit price buys.
Spend order
Plan credits first, then packs, so the credits with a deadline always go before the ones without.
The signup gift
Registering adds credits valid for 30 days, and a daily check-in adds more on top.
Async batch jobs
Cost 30% fewer credits on Pro and 50% fewer on Studio, because OpenAI’s Batch tier costs us half and there is no reason to keep the difference.
If any of this is not what happened to your account, that is a bug and we will fix the balance.
How much does GPT Image 2.5 cost per image?
OpenAI bills GPT Image 2.5 by token rather than by image, which is why almost nobody answers this directly. We measured every tier. Both gpt-image-2.5-flare and gpt-image-2.5-sunburst are billed at the same rate — $30 per million image output tokens.
What OpenAI charges per image, and what the same image costs in credits here
What OpenAI charges us, per image
The 4K column is derived from measured token scaling rather than measured directly — OpenAI’s estimator does not offer that size. We recalibrate the whole grid from live response.usage. Last verified 2026-09-09.
What we charge you, in credits
Editing or image-to-image adds 4 credits, which covers up to four reference images. Think mode (Sunburst) is the same price as Fast — it is slower, not dearer. A blocked or failed run is 0.
On Pro, that works out to
- a standard image
- $0.075a standard image400 a month
- an HD image
- $0.299an HD image100 a month
- a draft
- $0.037a draft800 a month
Yes, the raw API is cheaper than we are. It is also an OpenAI organization verification, an async job queue, a two-minute timeout, storage, retries and a front end. If you already have all of that, use the API — we publish these numbers precisely so you can decide. Figures come from OpenAI’s own estimator and are recalibrated against live response.usage data.
GPT Image 2.5 pricing: the twelve questions people ask
How much does GPT Image 2.5 cost per image?
Is GPT Image 2.5 free?
What is the difference between the plans?
How do credits work?
Why are one-time credit packs more expensive than a plan?
Can I use the images commercially?
Do you add a watermark?
What happens if a generation fails or gets blocked?
Can I choose between Flare and Sunburst?
Can I cancel or get a refund?
Do prices include tax?
Is this an official OpenAI product?
Something not answered here? Ask us — the reply comes from a person.
Start with one free image. Decide after.
No card, no account — generate one image on the real gpt-image-2.5 and read the model ID off the result. If it is good, plans start at $19.90 a month with a 7-day refund.
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