GPT Image 2.6 Cost per Image Calculator
As of November 5, 2026, one GPT Image 2.6 image costs $0.020 (1536×1024, low) to $0.211 (1024×1024, max) at OpenAI's API rates. Sunburst and Flare are billed at the same token rates, and 2.6 has no Batch discount.
- Prices as of November 5, 2026
- $0.020 to $0.211 per image
- 11 priced combinations
GPT Image 2.6 · Calculator
gpt-image-2.6-flare
OpenAI's model pages list Batch as not supported for both 2.6 models, so only the standard rate applies.
Cost per image
$0.04347
gpt-image-2.6-flare · medium · 1024×1024
- Per 1,000 images
- $43.47
- Monthly total1,000 images
- $43.47
How this number is built
- Image output
- = $0.04347
- 1,449 tokens × $30 per 1M tokens
- Cost per image
- = $0.04347
- Per 1,000 images
- = $43.47
- $0.04347 × 1,000
- Monthly total
- = $43.47
- $0.04347 × 1,000 images
GPT Image 2.6 price per image: full table
Image output only, in USD: token count × the rate for each route. Items billed on top are in the rate table below.
| Quality | 1024×1024 | 1536×1024 | 3840×2160 |
|---|---|---|---|
low | $0.02472824 tokens | $0.01992664 tokens | $0.046771,559 tokens |
medium | $0.043471,449 tokens | $0.033961,132 tokens | not measured |
high | $0.052681,756 tokens | $0.040591,353 tokens | $0.100113,337 tokens |
xhigh | $0.093663,122 tokens | $0.073772,459 tokens | not measured |
max | $0.210727,024 tokens | not measured | not measured |
Token rates behind the table
USD per 1M tokens.
| Billed item | Standard |
|---|---|
| Image output | $30 |
| Text input | $5 |
| Image input | $8 |
| One reference image (1,048 input tokens) | $0.008384 |
How this is calculated
Cost per image = image output tokens × the image output rate ÷ 1,000,000, plus the tokens of each add-on × its own rate. Cost per 1,000 images and the monthly total multiply that figure, and nothing is rounded before the last step.
- Token rates are OpenAI's published prices for gpt-image-2.6-sunburst and gpt-image-2.6-flare.
- Output token counts are measured, not estimated: the LaoZhang API documentation team called OpenAI's API directly on November 5, 2026, with one prompt and one run per combination. Your own counts can differ by a few dozen tokens.
- At the same size and quality, Sunburst and Flare returned the same counts give or take a few dozen tokens (under $0.001 per image), so one set of counts is used for both.
- Combinations marked not measured had no test run. Portrait 1024×1536 was not measured either.
Where the numbers come from
- OpenAI API pricing
- gpt-image-2.6-flare model page (Batch: not supported)
- OpenAI image generation API reference (usage object)
Figures and test data are taken from our articles:
- GPT Image 2.6 Pricing: Sunburst & Flare, $0.02–$0.21 per Image
- GPT Image 2.6 vs 2.5: Same Price at High, 4× the Cost at Low
Data date: November 5, 2026. Rates change, so check the official pages above before you commit a budget.
Not included
- GIF and SVG output: a GIF is billed as one sheet that holds every frame, and an SVG adds the text model that writes the vector code.
- Requests sent without the quality parameter: Flare then picks a level from the prompt, and a detailed prompt used about 5,795 output tokens in the test.
- Images you discard or regenerate. Each one costs as much as an image you keep.