OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.0 with reliable in-image text rendering, multi-panel generation, and a new gpt-image-2 API with tiered pricing.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 (gpt-image-2), a major upgrade to its image generation model that finally renders legible, accurate text within images. The model includes 'thinking capabilities' — web search, multi-image generation from one prompt, and iterative editing. All ChatGPT and Codex users get access starting Tuesday, with paid users unlocking higher-quality outputs. The gpt-image-2 API is also available with quality- and resolution-based pricing.
The gpt-image-2 API drops the single biggest blocker for programmatic image generation: legible text. Any pipeline that previously required post-processing to overlay text on images — receipts, menus, infographics, certificates, banners — can now be simplified to a single API call. Pricing is tiered by quality and resolution, which means you can tune cost vs. output fidelity per use case.
Hit the gpt-image-2 API this week with a prompt requiring embedded text — like a product label or event flyer — and compare output quality and cost against your current Stable Diffusion + text overlay pipeline to see if you can collapse two steps into one.
Run: curl https://api.openai.com/v1/images/generations -H 'Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"model": "gpt-image-2", "prompt": "A professional restaurant menu for a Mexican restaurant with accurate English text, prices in USD, and clean typography", "n": 1, "size": "1024x1024"}'
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