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GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst

Model idgpt-image-2.6-sunburst

Price$5 text in, $30 image out per 1M tokens

Checked5 November 2026

Where it stands

No newer image generation model in our registry yet.

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Before it from OpenAI
GPT Image 2.5 Flare8 Sep 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

2 ways to use GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
OpenAI API gpt-image-2.6-sunburst https://api.openai.com/v1/images/generations developers.openai.com
Web app (ChatGPT Images 2.6) and Codex chatgpt.com

Pricing

Prices for GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst
Text input$5 per 1M tokens
Cached text input$1.25 per 1M tokens
Image input$8 per 1M tokens
Cached image input$2 per 1M tokens
Image output$30 per 1M tokens

As published: “per 1M tokens (USD)”.

Source: developers.openai.com, checked 5 November 2026.

Specs

Input
Text and images
Output
Images
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
4 November 2026
Status
Current
Type
Image generation

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Animated GIF output

    Generates animated GIFs from a prompt or image; speed and single frames editable in ChatGPT (OpenAI on X, Nov 4 2026).

    Source: x.com

  • Markup-guided edits and SVG output

    Docs list markup-guided edits, SVG output and a complexity setting.

    Source: developers.openai.com

  • Speed

    Higher-quality model; at medium or high quality keeps details more consistent from one edit to the next (OpenAI Devs on X).

    Source: x.com

Notes

Successor to gpt-image-2.5-sunburst (Sept 2026) at the same token rates. Endpoints: v1/images/generations and v1/images/edits. Only snapshot listed: gpt-image-2.6-sunburst. Some early users on X said results looked worse than 2.5 (no benchmark yet).

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/images/generations \
 -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"model":"gpt-image-2.6-sunburst","prompt":"a lighthouse at dawn"}'