Imagen 4 Fast

by Google

Imagen 4 Fast is the speed-optimized variant of the Imagen 4 family, launched August 15, 2025. It delivers visual fidelity close to standard Imagen 4 while generating images up to roughly 10 times faster than Imagen 3, with individual generations completing in about 2.7 seconds, which suits high-volume pipelines and rapid creative iteration. The model maintains strong typography and text rendering across styles from photorealism and illustration to concept art, supports multiple aspect ratios and resolutions up to 2K, and watermarks every output with SynthID. It is built for developers and creative workflows where generation speed determines viability.

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Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
480
Max output
8K
Pricing
$0.02 / generation
Billing
Per generation
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention with abuse monitoring
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Pricing

Usage-based pricing, billed per generation, not by token.

VariantPrice
Standard$0.02 / generation

Available routes

Imagen 4 Fast runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingPrice
USNo$0.02 / generation

Uptime and availability

Imagen 4 Fast runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

99.40%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Imagen 4 Fast has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Google Cloud — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for abuse monitoring only, for a window the provider does not state, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, window not stated.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content, 55 days, a person can view samples
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call Imagen 4 Fast through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.

Imagen 4 Fast is a premium model on Opper. Sign up needs no credit card: you get an API key straight away and the free models work in the playground and the API. Add a card to use premium models, pay-as-you-go with no minimum.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "gemini/imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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