In early 2025, OpenAI released a new image‑generation model that quickly captured public attention and attracted millions of fresh users to its flagship chatbot. By April of the same year, the company extended this technology to developers via the gpt-image-1 API, and later introduced an upgraded version, gpt-image-1.5, in December 2025.
Google’s Gemini Nano Banana Series Continues to Expand
Since September of last year, Google has been deploying its Gemini Nano Banana line of image‑generation models. This year, the firm announced Nano Banana 2—also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image—which offers “Pro‑level” visual quality and notable enhancements over earlier releases.
OpenAI’s New Offer: ChatGPT Images 2.0
To compete with Gemini Nano Banana 2, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Images 2.0 during a livestream featuring CEO Sam Altman and other executives. The new model excels at producing images that contain text, enabling accurate rendering of elements such as macOS desktop windows or chat interfaces.
Key capabilities include:
- Closer adherence to user instructions and preservation of requested details
- Precise depiction of fine‑grained components—small text, icons, UI widgets, dense compositions, and subtle stylistic cues
- Resolution up to 2 K across aspect ratios ranging from 3:1 (wide) to 1:3 (tall)
Dual Model Variants
OpenAI offers two versions of Images 2.0:
- ChatGPT Images 2.0 instant
- ChatGPT Images 2.0 thinking
The “thinking” or Pro model can query the web for real‑time information related to a prompt, generate multiple distinct images from a single request, and verify its own outputs.
Improved Multilingual Support
Images 2.0 demonstrates stronger multilingual understanding, particularly with non‑Latin scripts such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, and Bengali.
Developer Access via the API
The gpt-image-2 model is available to developers under the following pricing structure:
- $8.00 per input prompt
- $2.00 for cached input reuse
- $30.00 per output image
User Availability
The instant variant is accessible to all ChatGPT and Codex users, while the thinking variant is limited to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Business subscribers.
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