Used by GPT-5.6 to generate the anime avatar images with different mouth movements for lip sync.
OpenAI's image generation and editing model family, accessed via the API and ChatGPT.
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GPT Image at a glance
- What is GPT Image?
- GPT Image is a model from OpenAI. OpenAI's image generation and editing model family, accessed via the API and ChatGPT.
- Who makes GPT Image?
- GPT Image is made by OpenAI.
- Does GPT Image work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. OpenAI publishes Europe Terms of Use for EEA residents (OpenAI Ireland Ltd), offers a DPA and GDPR support, and provides data residency for the API and ChatGPT business products. No page evidence of GPT Image being withheld in the EU. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does GPT Image cost?
- API pricing. Billed per usage through the OpenAI API; also available in ChatGPT subject to plan limits. Check OpenAI's pricing page for current rates. Licence: Proprietary.
- Where was GPT Image shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 10 Jul 2026, at 2:38 in “GPT 5.6 is a BEAST”.
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GPT Image is OpenAI's family of image generation and editing models, available through the OpenAI API (Image API and Responses API) and within ChatGPT. It generates images from text prompts and can edit or transform existing images using text instructions and image inputs.
Typical uses include illustrations, product and marketing visuals, stylised characters and asset generation. A YouTube creator (AI Search) described GPT-5.6 using it to produce anime avatar images with different mouth positions for a lip-sync setup, showing use as a tool called by a language model in agentic workflows.
Developers access it through the API with usage-based billing; consumers use it in ChatGPT under plan limits. The provided pages do not give model version details, exact pricing or release dates, so those are left unspecified here. Weights are not released.
- Text-to-image generation
- Image editing from text instructions and reference images
- Available via OpenAI API and ChatGPT
- Can be invoked as a tool by OpenAI language models
- Business data residency options for API
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