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OpenAI: GPT Image 1
openai/gpt-image-1
Our take
AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.
OpenRouter’s catalog describes openai/gpt-image-1 as an OpenAI image model that accepts text and image inputs and returns images through the dedicated Images API. The catalog reports generation and editing, accurate text rendering, transparent-background output, support for up to 16 reference images in edits, a 400,000-token context window, and parameters for output formatting, seeds, and structured outputs. A Design Arena image-editing result is listed as measured data, but this source pack contains no independent model card or broader evaluation evidence.[1]
Strengths
- Catalog-reported: generates and edits images from text plus image inputs, with up to 16 reference images for edit requests.[1]
- Catalog-reported: accurate text rendering and transparent-background image output.[1]
- Catalog-reported features include a 400,000-token context window, seed selection, response formatting, and structured outputs.[1]
Limitations
- Only OpenRouter catalog evidence was supplied; an independent model card was not available in this source pack.[1]
- Measured evidence is limited to one Design Arena image-editing entry, so it does not establish broad quality, reliability, or safety.[1]
- The catalog does not document licensing, deployment requirements, latency, content-policy behavior, or workload-specific performance; validate before production use.[1]
Where to use it
- Worth evaluating for image generation and editing workflows that combine prompts with multiple visual references.[1]
- Potentially useful for design assets that need legible embedded text or transparent backgrounds; inspect outputs for each workload.[1]
- Consider for API integrations where seed, response-format, and structured-output parameters can support controlled image requests; verify consistency in testing.[1]
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · OpenAI: GPT Image 1Sources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
OpenAI's GPT Image 1 generates and edits images via the dedicated Images API. Features accurate text rendering, transparent backgrounds, and up to 16 reference images for edits.
Specifications
- Model ID
- openai/gpt-image-1
- Creator
- openai
- Added to OpenRouter
- 24.06.2026
- Context length
- 400,000
- Modality
- text+image->image
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- image
- Token pricing
- No per-token price in the source snapshot — see OpenRouter for the billing unit
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | — |
| Coding | No measurement | — |
| Agents | No measurement | parameters: structured_outputs |
| Writing | No measurement | — |
| Reasoning | No measurement | — |
| Document analysis | No measurement | — |
| Vision | No measurement | input: image |
| Image generation | No measurement | output: image |
| Audio | No measurement | — |
| Video | No measurement | — |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
| Source | Benchmark | Value | Grade | Data retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena | models · imageeditingwin rate 46.6% · rank 7 | 1,081Elo | —Not rated | 13.11.2026 |
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 400,000 | — | — | — | — | — |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026
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