OpenAI · image model · Released Sep 26, 2025GPT Image 1 Mini
GPT Image 1 Mini is an image model from OpenAI, released Sep 26, 2025. It handles text to image and image editing.
- Arena score
- 1,124#58 of 61 · image editing
- Starting price
- $0.033per image · 1024×1024
- Largest size
- —Not published
- References
- 16input images for editing
How it rates and what it costs
- Text to image arena
- 1,109 ±3#54 of 82 · 170,993 votes
- Image editing arena
- 1,124 ±3#58 of 61 · 682,755 votes
Arena scores come from blind, side-by-side human votes on the same prompts (higher is better; ± is the 95% range). Boards updated Oct 26, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.
Listed prices
- 1024×1024
- $0.033/image
Measured cost of one square image at default settings.
Specs and prices checked Nov 2, 2026: OpenRouter, image generation models compared (Sep 11, 2026) . Labs change prices often.
The details
- Lab
- OpenAI
- Type
- Image model
- Released
- Sep 26, 2025
- Inputs
- Text prompts, Reference images
- Output
- Images
- Can do
- Text to image, Image editing
- Max reference images
- 16
- Images per request
- Up to 10
- Weights
- Proprietary
- API model ID
gpt-image-1-minion OpenAI- Availability
- 1 API host
- Status
- Deprecated by the provider
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About GPT Image 1 Mini
How good is GPT Image 1 Mini?
In blind side-by-side votes, GPT Image 1 Mini scores 1,109 for text to image (#54 of 82) and 1,124 for image editing (#58 of 61). Higher is better; scores within about 6 points of each other are effectively tied.
Who makes GPT Image 1 Mini?
GPT Image 1 Mini is an image model from OpenAI, released Sep 26, 2025.
What can GPT Image 1 Mini do?
GPT Image 1 Mini accepts text prompts and reference images and produces images. In practice: text to image and image editing.
Is GPT Image 1 Mini open source?
No. GPT Image 1 Mini is proprietary; you use it through OpenAI’s API or partner apps.
Where can I use GPT Image 1 Mini?
It is listed by 1 API host we track; the model ID on OpenAI is gpt-image-1-mini.
How much does GPT Image 1 Mini cost?
GPT Image 1 Mini costs from $0.033/image (1024×1024). Prices checked Nov 2, 2026.
What are the alternatives to GPT Image 1 Mini?
The closest image models from other labs, by release date, are Seedream 4.0 (ByteDance Seed, Sep 9, 2025), Qwen-Image (Alibaba (Qwen), Aug 7, 2025), FLUX.2 [pro] (Black Forest Labs, Nov 25, 2025) and GLM-Image (Z.ai (Zhipu), Jan 14, 2026).