GPT Image API with 3 Model Tiers
The GPT Image API gives developers OpenAI's image generation family across three tiers, GPT Image 1, 1.5, and Mini, each in text to image and editing variants. The models deliver accurate in-image text, photorealistic rendering, and strong prompt adherence across diverse styles. On Atlas Cloud you reach all tiers through one unified API alongside 300+ models, from $0.004 per image, with 99.99% uptime.
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| Modality | Description |
|---|---|
| GPT Image-1 T2I API(Text to Image) | The GPT Image-1 Text to Image API empowers developers to transform text prompts into stunning, photorealistic visuals with exceptional detail. By combining GPT-4 Turbo's reasoning with DALL·E-class visual synthesis, it delivers industry-leading prompt adherence and complex composition capabilities for professional-grade image production. |
| GPT Image-1 Edit API(Image to Image) | The GPT Image-1 Edit API empowers developers to transform existing images into refined or reimagined masterpieces with seamless consistency. By utilizing multimodal understanding, it generates precise stylistic transfers, contextual compositions, and targeted modifications for professional-grade asset iteration. |
| GPT Image-1.5 T2I API(Text to Image) | The GPT Image-1.5 Text to Image API empowers developers to transform text prompts into high-quality visuals at optimized cost. By leveraging GPT-powered architecture, it delivers strong prompt understanding and visual fidelity for balanced production workflows. |
| GPT Image-1.5 Edit API(Image to Image) | The GPT Image-1.5 Edit API empowers developers to refine existing assets with precise modifications. By supporting input_fidelity control, it enables fine-tuned adjustments while preserving essential elements like faces and logos. |
| GPT Image-1 Mini T2I API(Text to Image) | The GPT Image-1 Mini Text to Image API empowers developers with the most cost-efficient image generation in the family. By leveraging GPT-5 architecture, it delivers professional-grade results at the lowest cost-per-image for high-volume content production. |
| GPT Image-1 Mini Edit API(Image to Image) | The GPT Image-1 Mini Edit API empowers developers to transform existing images with streamlined editing capabilities. By providing essential editing functions at minimal cost, it enables rapid iteration and content production workflows. |
Key Features of GPT Image API
Explore what the GPT Image API delivers, from flexible styles, photorealistic fidelity, and accurate in-image text to mask-based editing, background control, and quality tiers.
Flexible Style Generation Using GPT Image API
Produces diverse visual outputs spanning photorealistic photography, stylized artwork, concept art, infographics, 3D-style illustrations, and more. From cinematic landscapes to UI mockups, the models adapt to your creative direction with precision.
High Visual Fidelity Using GPT Image API
Maintains object relationships, lighting consistency, and color balance with industry-leading prompt adherence. Generated images exhibit natural textures, accurate proportions, and physically plausible compositions.
Accurate Text Rendering Using GPT Image API
Capable of generating clean, legible typography within images — ideal for posters, memes, comics, branding visuals, and any project requiring integrated textual elements.
Knowledge-Grounded Creativity Using GPT Image API
Leverages GPT-4/GPT-5's world knowledge to generate factually accurate and contextually appropriate visuals. The model understands cultural references, historical contexts, and domain-specific concepts.
Mask-Based Editing Using GPT Image API
Edit specific regions with optional mask input, modifying only the selected areas while the rest of the image stays untouched. This makes the GPT Image API reliable for retouching, object removal, and precise composition changes.
Background and Transparency Control
Customize backgrounds and produce transparent outputs on supported models, ideal for logos, product shots, and layered design work. You can place subjects onto new scenes or export clean cutouts without manual masking.
Quality Tier Control
Choose Low, Medium, or High quality on each request to balance detail and cost for your workload. Lower tiers speed up high-volume drafts, while High delivers the most photorealistic results for final assets.
Comparisons with One Prompt
Surrealist fashion campaign poster, quadrant layout (2x2 grid of 4 variations), extreme macro photography of a human eye filling the entire frame as background — iris colors vary across panels: blue-green teal, golden hazel, natural brown — hyperrealistic eye texture with visible pores on eyelid skin, dramatic long eyelashes in black with some purple/violet colored lash extensions spiking outward in an editorial exaggerated style, miniaturized female model composited realistically into the eye environment, appearing to sit casually on the lower eyelid or eyelash roots, model wearing streetwear/casual fashion outfits — variations include: oversized grey graphic sweatshirt + black plaid wide-leg pants + black chunky platform boots, grey long-sleeve polo shirt + sage green cargo pants + tan Timberland boots + camo backpack, bold typographic brand logo "LKNLN" stamped/tattooed directly onto the eyelid skin in dark gothic/industrial bold sans-serif font, appearing as if embossed or inked into skin, lighting: dramatic studio lighting on the eye, soft fill on model, depth of field contrast between hyper-sharp iris and soft skin surroundings, color palette: skin tones, teal/hazel iris, muted sage green, plaid grey-black, amber boots, purple accent lashes, photorealistic composite, editorial fashion photography style, small watermark "AI dsgn" in bottom left corner, ultra high resolution, cinematic color grading
GPT Image 1
GPT Image 1.5
GPT Image 2
GPT Image API Use Cases for Image Generation
See what you can build with the GPT Image API, from professional photography and UI mockups to marketing campaigns, concept art, style transfer, and content localization.
Professional Photography & Visual Art
Generate photorealistic images with cinematic lighting, precise composition, and natural textures. From product photography to editorial visuals, GPT Image models produce outputs indistinguishable from professional camera work.
UI/UX Design & Mockups
Create clean, modern design concepts including app interfaces, dashboards, websites, and product layouts. The models excel at generating structured compositions with professional aesthetics.
Marketing & Advertising Campaigns
Rapidly produce campaign-ready visuals for social media, digital ads, and brand marketing. Support for multiple quality tiers enables both rapid A/B testing and high-end final deliverables.
Creative Concept Art & Illustration
Explore styles, moodboards, and concept art at speed. Generate illustrations in diverse artistic styles — from watercolor paintings to anime, comic books to oil paintings.
Style Transfer & Artistic Transformation
Transform existing images into different artistic styles while preserving core subject matter. Convert photos to cartoons, paintings, sketches, or any aesthetic direction with natural language instructions.
Content Localization & Adaptation
Quickly adapt visual content for different markets, audiences, or platforms. Modify backgrounds, adjust colors, update styling, or re-contextualize imagery through simple text descriptions.
Model Comparison
See how models from different providers stack up — compare performance, pricing, and unique strengths to make an informed decision.
| Model | Reference Image Limit | Output Num | Resolution | Aspect Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT Image-1 | 4 | 1~10 | 1024×1024, 1024×1536, 1536×1024 | 1:1, 3:2, 2:3 |
| GPT Image-1.5 | 10 | 1 | 1024×1024, 1024×1536, 1536×1024 | 1:1, 3:2, 2:3 |
| GPT Image-1 Mini | 4 | 1~10 | 1024×1024, 1024×1536, 1536×1024 | 1:1, 3:2, 2:3 |
| Nano Banana 2 | 14 | 1 | 4K, 2K, 1K | 1:1 3:2 2:3 3:4 4:3 4:5 5:4 9:16 16:9 21:9 |
| Seedream 5.0 | 14 | 1~15 | 2K~4K+ | 1:1 3:2 2:3 3:4 4:3 4:5 5:4 9:16 16:9 21:9 |
How to Use GPT Image on Atlas Cloud
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Why Use GPT Image on Atlas Cloud
Combining the advanced GPT Image models with Atlas Cloud's GPU-accelerated platform provides unmatched performance, scalability, and developer experience.
Performance & flexibility
Low Latency:
GPU-optimized inference for real-time reasoning.
Unified API:
Run GPT Image, GPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek with one integration.
Transparent Pricing:
Predictable per-token billing with serverless options.
Enterprise & Scale
Developer Experience:
SDKs, analytics, fine-tuning tools, and templates.
Reliability:
99.99% uptime, RBAC, and compliance-ready logging.
Security & Compliance:
SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA alignment, data sovereignty in US.
GPT Image API FAQ
The GPT Image API offers three tiers. GPT Image-1 is the flagship for the highest quality, GPT Image-1.5 balances strong quality with lower cost, and GPT Image-1 Mini is the most cost-efficient for high-volume work. Each tier is available in both text to image and image to image variants.
Each model supports Low, Medium, and High quality settings. Higher quality produces more detailed and photorealistic results but at higher cost. For initial testing and previews, use Low quality for speed and savings. Switch to High quality for final deliverables requiring maximum fidelity.
Text-to-Image models support three output sizes: 1024×1024 (square), 1024×1536 (portrait), and 1536×1024 (landscape). Choose based on your use case — portrait for characters and vertical art, landscape for cinematic scenes and wide compositions, square for general purpose content.
Yes. The GPT Image API edit models accept an optional mask input, so you can control exactly which regions of an image are modified while the rest stays untouched. This supports precise inpainting for retouching, object removal, and localized changes.
The GPT Image API gives developers programmatic access to OpenAI's GPT Image family, a suite of multimodal image generation and editing models. It generates and edits images from text and image inputs, with accurate in-image text, photorealistic rendering, and strong prompt adherence. On Atlas Cloud you reach all three tiers through one unified API alongside 300+ models.
On Atlas Cloud the GPT Image API uses flat per-image pricing, starting at $0.004 per image on GPT Image-1 Mini, $0.008 on GPT Image-1.5, and $0.009 on GPT Image-1. Pricing is transparent with no token math, so you can predict the cost per generation before you run it.
No. OpenAI gates the GPT Image models behind organization verification in its own developer console, which can block individual developers. With the GPT Image API on Atlas Cloud you only need an Atlas Cloud account, so you can get a key and start generating without OpenAI verification.
Yes. Images you generate through the GPT Image API come with full commercial usage rights, and you retain ownership of the content you create. This makes it suitable for client work, marketing campaigns, and products you ship.
Yes. Atlas Cloud exposes an OpenAI-compatible API, so you can point the OpenAI SDK at the Atlas Cloud base URL, add your Atlas key, and call the GPT Image API with your existing code. You can make your first request in minutes without rebuilding your integration.
The GPT Image API gives you programmatic control that the chat experience does not, including quality settings, output size and format, mask-based editing, and batch generation. It is built for integrating image generation into your own apps and pipelines, rather than one-off creation in a chat window.
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Gemini Omni
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GPT Image 2
The GPT Image 2 API gives developers access to OpenAI's latest image model, the successor to GPT Image 1.5. It generates and edits images with accurate text rendering across Latin and CJK scripts, plus strong composition for posters, mockups, and infographics. On Atlas Cloud you reach it through one unified API alongside 300+ models, with free credits, 99.99% uptime, and no OpenAI organization verification required.
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Seedance 2.0 Mini
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ByteDance
From cinematic video generation to high-fidelity image creation, ByteDance's most powerful models are live on Atlas Cloud. Run Seedance and Seedream at scale with the lowest inference pricing and zero infrastructure overhead.
Alibaba
Atlas Cloud brings together Alibaba's full model lineup under one API: Qwen for language and image tasks, Wan for video generation up to 1080p. Access every model pay-as-you-go with no subscriptions. The Alibaba API is available via a single base URL using your existing OpenAI-compatible client.
OpenAI
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