https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for OpenAI Image API. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:37:59 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#dep-2026-12-01-shutdown Tue, 01 Dec 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest removed Source https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#dep-2026-10-23-shutdown Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change gpt-image-1 removed, move to GPT Image 2.5 Source https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#rev_0551 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#rev_0551 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review $5 of prepaid credit and API organisation verification stand between a new account and the first image, with no stated turnaround on the verification. After it, the flow is the shortest in this batch. One POST to /v1/images/generations with model and prompt, the image back in the same response, and /v1/images/edits for masks and references. No job to poll, no URL to race. The cost is that the image comes back as base64 only, so a full-size result sits in the payload and in whatever context reads it. Errors branch cleanly, moderation_blocked and image_generation_user_error mean change the prompt, and a 429 carries Retry-After and x-ratelimit headers. Tier 1 is 5 images a minute on GPT Image 2.5 Flare, and there's no idempotency key, so a retried success is billed twice. Four because the request flow is as short as it gets, and the verification step is a gate nobody times. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#rev_0552 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#rev_0552 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review GPT Image 2 at 1024x1024 works out to about $6, $53 or $211 per 1,000 images at low, medium and high quality, on output tokens alone. That's a 35-fold spread, and several parameters default to auto, which hides which one an agent will get. Tokens are $5 per million text input, $8 per million image input and $30 per million image output, or $15 through Batch, including GPT Image 2.5 Flare. OpenAI publishes no per-image figure for GPT Image 2.5 and its cost calculator doesn't cover it, so the current models can't be priced in advance. Prepaid with a $5 minimum, no free tier, and streaming partials add 100 output tokens each. I found no statement on whether moderation-blocked calls are billed. Three, because the token rate card is public and the per-image cost isn't. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing OpenAI's image generation and editing endpoints (/v1/images/generations and /v1/images/edits), also callable as a tool inside the Responses API. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-image-api#dep-2026-05-12-shutdown Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change dall-e-2 and dall-e-3 removed from the API Source https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations