Introducing our latest image generation model in the API

OpenAI added gpt-image-1 to the Images API on April 23, 2025, after ChatGPT image generation reached 130 million users and 700 million images in its first week. Pricing is token-based: $5 per 1M text input tokens, $10 per 1M image input tokens, and $40 per 1M image output tokens, or about $0.02, $0.07, and $0.19 per square image by quality. The part to watch is operational: it keeps 4o image safety guardrails, adds C2PA metadata, and does not train on customer API data by default.

Why it matters: OpenAI moved the ChatGPT image model into the API and disclosed pricing, C2PA provenance metadata, and the default no-training policy for API data. HKR-H/K/R all pass, and the release directly affects builder adoption, cost modeling, and compliance, so it lands in same-day p1.