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Model Pareto

GPT Image 2 vs GPT Image 1.5

In image generation, GPT Image 2 scores 82.6 and GPT Image 1.5 57.0 on the 0–100 quality scale. GPT Image 2 costs 1.6× as much as GPT Image 1.5 ($0.21 vs $0.13 per image).
GPT Image 2GPT Image 1.5
Focus

Image generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 36 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Z-Image Turbo, Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, MAI-Image-2.6, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. 1 models are not plotted: Qwen-Image-2.1.

1 model with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Qwen-Image-2.1

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • GPT Image 2
    Quality
    82.6
    Rank
    #3/38
    Price
    $0.21/img
    Speed
    118s

    vs GPT Image 1.5: +25.7 quality · 1.6× price

  • GPT Image 1.5
    Quality
    57.0
    Rank
    #13/38
    Price
    $0.13/img
    Speed
    28s

    vs GPT Image 2: −25.7 quality · 0.63× price

Overview

Metric
GPT Image 2
GPT Image 1.5
Lab
OpenAI
OpenAI
Released
Apr 21, 2026
Dec 16, 2025
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.21
$0.13Best
Time per image
118s
28sBest

Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
GPT Image 2
GPT Image 1.5
Image generation
82.6±3.2Best
#3/38Verified
57.0±3.2
#13/38Verified

Image generation benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
GPT Image 2
GPT Image 1.5
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#3/351171BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1190
  3. #3GPT Image 21171
  4. #4Grok Imagine Image 2.01154
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#8/351102Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #7Muse Image1112
  3. #8GPT Image 1.51102
  4. #9MAI-Image-2.51102
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#5/291122BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #4MAI-Image-2.6-Flash1125
  3. #5GPT Image 21122
  4. #6Muse Image1117
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#12/291104Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #11Grok Imagine Image 2.01106
  3. #12GPT Image 1.51104
  4. #13Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1098
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#3/301381BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1401
  3. #3GPT Image 21381
  4. #4MAI-Image-2.61334
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#13/301239Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #12Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1246
  3. #13GPT Image 1.51239
  4. #14Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1228
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#3/241461BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1482
  3. #3GPT Image 21461
  4. #4Grok Imagine Image 2.01430
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
#12/241370Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #11Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1388
  3. #12GPT Image 1.51370
  4. #13Qwen-Image-2.11367
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
~#2/4~88.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. ~#2GPT Image 2Estimated88.3%
  3. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3GPT Image 1.5Estimated86.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#2/4~88.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. ~#2GPT Image 2Estimated88.6%
  3. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3GPT Image 1.5Estimated87.4%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks