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GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
by OpenAI
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RANKED #22 OF 101 IMAGES · OVERALL #193 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 4.3 · 685 VOICES ·
COPY BADGE pastes a README snippet with the rank SVG.
Image model for prompt-driven generation, editing, and visual design workflows
HAPPY5.8
67 mentions
SAD9.2
22 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 716 voices in this window
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. OpenAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.3
FluxBlack Forest LabsPick for top-tier prompt following, typography, and local photorealistic generation.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY❤️ CROWD FAVORITE🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE37.5k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.9Flux.2 KleinBlack Forest LabsPick for near-instant sub-second image generation and multi-reference editing.⚡ FAST🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY5.5k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People generally like GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, with some gripes. Biggest praise: working when you need it. Biggest gripe: saying no too much.
685 POSTS · 14 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · BLOG · BLUESKY · DEV FORUMS · DEV.TO · HACKER NEWS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Stable and dependable (11 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (3 mentions)
- People find it expensive (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Working when you need itMOSTLY POSITIVE
11 thumbs up · 4 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- PriceA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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Midjourney> SOURCES (12)
- BLOG · 2026-09-08 · 32 UPVOTESIntroducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 OpenAI's image generation models are apparently used "more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT‑Image models in the API". This latest release improves their instruction-following ability across multiple turns,…
- BLOG · 2026-09-09 · 32 UPVOTES[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a…
Today was a tough news cycle to launch anything; we ordinarily promise to cover any new decacorn fundraises so Cognition’s $48B round and Mistral’s $24B round would normally have made it; we love imagegen so GPT Image 2.5 would have been its own headline; we…
- REDDIT · 2026-10-01 · 27 UPVOTESWe’ve been prompting GPT Image 2.5 all wrong
We’ve been prompting GPT Image 2.5 all wrong
- BLUESKY · 2026-10-07 · 23 UPVOTESGPT Image 2.5 Sunburst vs Nano Banana 2.1, same prompt, four scenes. Text: both 179/179. With Aria's sheet refs, GPT nai
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst vs Nano Banana 2.1, same prompt, four scenes. Text: both 179/179. With Aria's sheet refs, GPT nai
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-09-26 · 5 UPVOTESGpt-image-2 image creator and editor app - Python, desktop UI (download in latest _J reply!)
Gpt-image-2 image creator and editor app - Python, desktop UI (download in latest _J reply!)
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-10-17 · 2 UPVOTESGPT-Image - General AI Art Gallery: Art Created by Users of OpenAI products 2026 -
GPT-Image - General AI Art Gallery: Art Created by Users of OpenAI products 2026 -
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-09-26 · 2 UPVOTESGPT-Image Monthly Theme Gallery: September 2026 Theme is...Fun Vibes
GPT-Image Monthly Theme Gallery: September 2026 Theme is...Fun Vibes
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-09-21 · 2 UPVOTESGPT-Image Monthly Theme Gallery: September 2026 Theme is...Fun Vibes
GPT-Image Monthly Theme Gallery: September 2026 Theme is...Fun Vibes
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-09-18 · 1 UPVOTESGPT-Image - General AI Gallery: A Place for Images Created by Users
GPT-Image - General AI Gallery: A Place for Images Created by Users
- GITHUB · 2026-09-16 · 0 UPVOTESfeat: upgrade Lively Photos Director for GPT Image 2.5
feat: upgrade Lively Photos Director for GPT Image 2.5
- GITHUB · 2026-10-02 · 0 UPVOTESThree campaign films for the Remotion example, printed with GPT Image 2.5 cut-outs
Three campaign films for the Remotion example, printed with GPT Image 2.5 cut-outs
- GITHUB · 2026-10-07 · 0 UPVOTESSign renders one GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst sheet (high, 3840×1648, no outfit plate) cut into the five views — his word closing #1690
Sign renders one GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst sheet (high, 3840×1648, no outfit plate) cut into the five views — his word closing #1690