GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst

by OpenAI

Released 5 days after GPT-6 Astra · Announcement · All OpenAI releases

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst is the precision tier of OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 family. It generates and edits images from text and image inputs, and OpenAI's guidance is to choose Sunburst for workflows where editing precision matters most and its sibling, Flare, for fast, high-quality everyday generation. The current snapshot is dated September 8, 2026. The model supports inpainting and six quality settings (low, medium, high, xhigh, max and auto). Beyond the recommended 1024x1024, 1536x1024 and 1024x1536 sizes it accepts custom dimensions in multiples of 16, with aspect ratios between 1:3 and 3:1 and up to 3840 pixels per edge, which covers 4K output. It fits production creative and editing workflows such as campaign assets and product imagery, where repeated edits need to stay faithful to the original and fidelity matters more than turnaround time.

Call GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst on Opper through POST /v3/images. Sign up without a credit card. Get started

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Pricing
from $0.0047 / image
Billing
Per image
Released
  • US residency available on OpenAI
  • Zero data retention with abuse monitoring
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Pricing

Usage-based pricing, billed by the image and tiered by variant, not by token.

VariantPrice
Auto · 1024×1024$0.0059 / image
Auto · 1024×1536$0.0047 / image
Auto · 1536×1024$0.0047 / image
Auto · 2048×1152$0.0047 / image
Auto · 2048×2048$0.0119 / image
Auto · 2160×3840$0.0111 / image
Auto · 3840×2160$0.0111 / image
High · 1024×1024$0.0527 / image
High · 1024×1536$0.0412 / image
High · 1536×1024$0.0412 / image
High · 2048×1152$0.0424 / image
High · 2048×2048$0.107 / image
High · 2160×3840$0.1001 / image
High · 3840×2160$0.1001 / image
Low · 1024×1024$0.0059 / image
Low · 1024×1536$0.0047 / image
Low · 1536×1024$0.0047 / image
Low · 2048×1152$0.0047 / image
Low · 2048×2048$0.0119 / image
Low · 2160×3840$0.0111 / image
Low · 3840×2160$0.0111 / image
Max · 1024×1024$0.2107 / image
Max · 1024×1536$0.1646 / image
Max · 1536×1024$0.1646 / image
Max · 2048×1152$0.1695 / image
Max · 2048×2048$0.4282 / image
Max · 2160×3840$0.4003 / image
Max · 3840×2160$0.4003 / image
Medium · 1024×1024$0.0132 / image
Medium · 1024×1536$0.0103 / image
Medium · 1536×1024$0.0103 / image
Medium · 2048×1152$0.011 / image
Medium · 2048×2048$0.0268 / image
Medium · 2160×3840$0.026 / image
Medium · 3840×2160$0.026 / image
Xhigh · 1024×1024$0.0937 / image
Xhigh · 1024×1536$0.0738 / image
Xhigh · 1536×1024$0.0738 / image
Xhigh · 2048×1152$0.0753 / image
Xhigh · 2048×2048$0.1903 / image
Xhigh · 2160×3840$0.1779 / image
Xhigh · 3840×2160$0.1779 / image

Available routes

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst runs on 2 different routes 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
MultiNofrom $0.0047 / image
USNofrom $0.0047 / image

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=openai%2Fgpt-image-2.5-sunburst

Uptime and availability

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst runs on 2 independently monitored routes through the Opper gateway. A direct integration leaves you on one of them, the gateway serves whichever is healthy.

99.86%effective uptime, last 30 days
Averaged across these routes on their own, a single provider reached 97.84% over the same window.
Daily status through the gateway, which serves each request from whichever route is healthy.
2 monitored providers serve GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst.

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 GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Azure — Multi-region

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: nothing is logged or used for training; content flagged by abuse monitoring is held for review. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, flagged content held.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content, a person can view samples
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

OpenAI — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring only, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, 30-day window.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (30-day retention)
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content, 30 days, a person can view samples
Caching
Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Get started

Call GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst through the Opper gateway with one API key. Image models run on Opper's images endpoint: POST /v3/images returns the image in the response, as base64 by default.

See the Opper images guide and the Opper multimodal skill.

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst 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

curl -s https://api.opper.ai/v3/images \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPPER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst",
"prompt": "A watercolor lighthouse on a cliff at sunrise",
"size": "1024x1024",
"quality": "medium"
}' \
| jq -r '.data[0].b64_json' | base64 --decode > image.png
# To edit an image, add "image": "https://..." (or a file_<id>) to the body

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