GPT Image 2
OpenAI's flagship text-to-image model with built-in reasoning, near-perfect in-image text, and up to 4K output.
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- OpenAI
- Price
- From $0.02 / image
- Max resolution
- 4K
- Released
- April 21, 2026
- License
- Proprietary
What is GPT Image 2?
GPT Image 2 is OpenAI's flagship text-to-image and image-editing model released in April 2026 as the replacement for DALL·E 3. It uses built-in reasoning to plan layouts, renders highly accurate multilingual in-image text, and generates images up to 4K resolution with flexible aspect ratios and selectable quality modes.
Use it privately on Venice
On Venice, GPT Image 2 runs under an anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training. You pay per image with credits instead of a subscription, and because Venice does not retain generation history, each session stays detached from your identity.
What can it do?
- •Best-in-class in-image text rendering across Latin, CJK, Hindi, Bengali and Arabic scripts, with reported character-level accuracy near 99% in English.
- •Built-in reasoning plans layout and composition before rendering, which improves instruction-following on complex, structured prompts.
- •Supports multi-turn conversational editing of existing images without starting from scratch.
- •Native 4K output with selectable quality modes that let you trade speed and cost for fidelity.
- •Particularly strong for infographics, UI mockups, posters and any asset where legible text matters.
- •Closed, proprietary, and not uncensored — content policies apply and you cannot self-host or fine-tune it.
- •Specialist rivals still lead on pure artistic aesthetics and typography-first design.
- •Higher resolutions and quality modes cost more and take longer to generate.
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
A retro travel poster with the bold headline "VENICE" in large condensed serif type, sunset color palette, clean layout
Photorealistic close-up portrait of a weathered fisherman at golden hour, 85mm lens, shallow depth of field, natural skin texture
A small red cube balanced on top of a large glossy blue sphere, with a green cone to the right, plain light-grey studio background
Cozy watercolor illustration of a hillside village in autumn, warm tones, soft paper texture
How to use it via API
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with gpt-image-2.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/image/generate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gpt-image-2",
"prompt": "A serene mountain lake at dawn, photorealistic"
}' --output image.pngSpecifications
Pricing
Pay per image on Venice — price scales with resolution and quality, from $0.02.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
GPT Image 2 vs alternatives
| Model | Max resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT Image 2 | 4K | Text & instruction-following | No | from $0.27 / image |
| Nano Banana 2 | 4K | Speed & web-grounded refs | No | from $0.10 / image |
| Flux 2 Max | 4K | Photoreal detail | No | $0.09 / image |
| Grok Imagine High Quality | 2K | Realism & speed | No | from $0.08 / image |
The leader for precise layouts, in-image text, and complex prompt adherence.
What is it good for?
- •Marketing creative and ad variations where on-image headline text must be spelled correctly.
- •Product mockups, packaging, and UI concepts that combine imagery with labels.
- •Infographics and diagrams generated directly from a written brief.
- •Conversational photo editing — adjusting an existing image across several turns.
- •Multilingual social assets that need legible non-Latin text.
Prompting tips
- •Put the exact text you want rendered in quotes inside the prompt.
- •Start at 1K low quality to iterate cheaply, then re-render the winning prompt at 4K high quality.
- •Describe layout explicitly ("headline top-left, product centered") — the model reasons over composition.
Version history
Predecessor image model.
First GPT-native image generation.
CurrentCurrent — reasoning-driven, 4K, improved text.
Frequently asked questions
GPT Image 2 is OpenAI's flagship text-to-image and image-editing model, released in April 2026. It replaces earlier DALL·E generations with built-in reasoning for layout planning, highly accurate multilingual in-image text, and image generation up to 4K resolution.
Venice charges per image based on resolution and quality. Prices range from $0.02 for a 1K low-quality image up to $0.21 for a 4K medium-quality image, with high-quality mode also available.
Venice offers pay-per-image access with no subscription required. You only spend credits when you generate, so there is no recurring fee to keep the model available.
No. GPT Image 2 is proprietary to OpenAI, with no open weights released. It cannot be self-hosted or fine-tuned. If you need an open-weight image model, Venice also hosts open alternatives such as Chroma.
Venice runs GPT Image 2 under its anonymized privacy tier. Your prompts are not stored, profiled, or used for training, and no personal generation history is retained.
GPT Image 2 leads on in-image text accuracy and instruction-following for complex layouts. Nano Banana 2 is optimized for speed and web-grounded reference search. Choose GPT Image 2 for text-heavy assets and Nano Banana 2 for rapid iteration with live references.
It supports 1K, 2K, and 4K resolutions with low, medium, and high quality modes. Aspect ratios include 1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 21:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, and 4:5.
Yes. It supports image-to-image editing and multi-turn conversational refinement, so you can upload an existing image and modify it across several steps rather than starting over.
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