GPT Image 2.6 Flare
Image generation
gpt-image-2.6-flare
$5 text in, $30 image out per 1M tokens
o3
Model ido3
Price$2 in, $8 out per 1M tokens
Checked24 October 2026
Knows up to June 2024
2,060events after its cutoff
98 historic, 490 major. 866 days of news.
It launched on 16 April 2025, already missing 34 of them. Coverage before 2026 is thin (34 entries for 2024 and 80 for 2025), so this count is a floor.
Its cutoff, June 2024, is before this chart starts: every mark here is news it has never seen.
How to call it
3 ways to use o3, with the model id each provider expects.
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | o3 |
https://api.openai.com/v1/responses |
developers.openai.com |
| Azure OpenAI (Microsoft Foundry) | o3 |
learn.microsoft.com | |
| OpenRouter | openai/o3 |
openrouter.ai |
Pricing
| Input | $2 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Cached input | $0.50 per 1M tokens |
| Output | $8 per 1M tokens |
As published: “per 1M tokens (USD), standard tier”.
Source: developers.openai.com, checked 24 October 2026.
Specs
- Input
- Text and images
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 200,000 tokens
- Max output
- 100,000 tokens
- Open weights
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Training cutoff
- June 2024
- Released
- 16 April 2025
- Status
- Deprecated
- Type
- Reasoning model
What stands out
What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.
Thinking with images
Reasoning model accepting image input with reasoning tokens.
Successor: GPT-5
Found after launch
Docs mark o3 as succeeded by GPT-5; o-series is legacy.
Four assistants, one scale
o3 is added as a fifth row. Each row runs from what the model knows (graphite) through the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched) to today (pink).
- GPT-6 Astra 271 at launch, 1,863 today
- Claude Opus 5.5 372 at launch, 1,795 today
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen 1,863 at launch, 1,889 today
- Grok 4.7 387 at launch, 1,829 today
- o3 34 at launch, 2,060 today
Show as a table
| Model | Cutoff | Released | Missing at launch | Missing today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-6 Astra | April 2026 | 3 September 2026 | 271 | 1,863 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | June 2026 | 22 September 2026 | 372 | 1,795 |
| Gemini 4 Hydrogen | March 2026 | 12 November 2026 | 1,863 | 1,889 |
| Grok 4.7 | May 2026 | 21 September 2026 | 387 | 1,829 |
| o3 | June 2024 | 16 April 2025 | 34 | 2,060 |
Notes
Snapshot o3-2025-04-16 (and o3-pro-2025-06-10) deprecated Jun 11 2026, shutdown Dec 11 2026; replace with gpt-5.6-*. o4-mini-2025-04-16 (and o1, o1-pro, o3-mini) were shut down on Oct 23 2026 per OpenAI’s deprecations page (replacement gpt-5.6-terra for o4-mini, gpt-5.6-sol for o1/o3-mini).
curl https://api.openai.com/v1/responses \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"o3","input":"Hello"}'
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