Shotcraft
Image generation

GPT Image 2

OpenAI's current image model (default snapshot gpt-image-2-2026-04-21), served on both /v1/images/generations and /v1/images/edits with documented inpainting support.

An image model by OpenAI · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing medium

Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Vendor states commercial use is permitted

It takes text and image input and returns images, and is billed by token rather than a published flat per-image rate. It replaces gpt-image-1.5 (Dec 2025) and gpt-image-1 (Apr 2025), both of which are still listed and priced.

Commercial use — Vendor states commercial use is permitted

Output ownership per OpenAI's terms (not verified from a fetched legal page).

The licence notes recorded during research were read for a commercial-use position and did not state one. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from OpenAI's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is mixed. Some fields came from pages we retrieved, others could not be confirmed and are left blank. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
image
Maximum resolution
not established
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
editing-by-instruction, inpainting, image-to-image, text-rendering, reference-character-consistency
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
token-based: image output $30.00 per 1M tokens, image input $8.00/1M ($2.00 cached), text input $5.00/1M ($1.25 cached). Batch API is 50% of standard. No flat per-image rate is published.
Released or updated
2026-04-21

Maximum resolution and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Strong instruction following and multilingual in-image text per vendor positioning
  • Both generation and edit/inpaint endpoints in one model
  • Batch API halves cost for async pipelines

Weaknesses

  • No published per-image price or supported-size table on the model/pricing pages, making cost modelling awkward
  • Token-metered image output is hard to forecast
  • Max resolution undocumented on the pages we could fetch

Best for

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

How to prompt it

Written for GPT Image 2. See prompt craft for the full vocabulary and cinematic language for the lens, light and mood tables.

MCP servers that front OpenAI

Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.

See it from the vendor

Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.