OpenAIImageReleased 4 November 2026
GPT Image 2.6 Flare pricing, context and benchmark
GPT Image 2.6 Flare is OpenAI's image generation and editing model optimized for speed: fast iteration and interactive text-to-image and image-to-image workflows, generating about 50% faster than GPT Image 2.5....
400K
Input context
n/a
Output context
$8
Per 1M tokens
1
Providers
n/a
AA index
01 · Model Overview
Everything that matters, in one table
Context, pricing, cache, modalities and tooling, from the model registry and Artificial Analysis.
| Model | GPT Image 2.6 Flare |
| Model ID | openai/gpt-image-2.6-flare |
| Provider | OpenAI |
| Release date | 4 November 2026 |
| Status | Generally available |
| Input context | 400,000 tokens |
| Output context | Provider default |
| Official input pricing | $8 per 1M tokens |
| Official output pricing | $8 per 1M tokens |
| Cache read pricing | Not published |
| Market input pricing | $8 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Market output pricing | $8 per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Input modalities | text · image |
| Output modalities | image |
| Reasoning control | Not exposed |
| Tool support | Text generation only |
| Tokenizer | GPT |
| Provider routes | 1 endpoint |
| Artificial Analysis index | Not published |
| Speed | Not published |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not publicly stated |
Input and output support
| Modality | Input | Output | Billed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text | ✓ yes | no | $8 in |
| Image | ✓ yes | ✓ yes | $8 in |
| Audio | no | no | not supported |
| Video | no | no | not supported |
| File (PDF) | no | no | not supported |
02 · Overview
What is GPT Image 2.6 Flare?
GPT Image 2.6 Flare is OpenAI's image generation and editing model optimized for speed: fast iteration and interactive text-to-image and image-to-image workflows, generating about 50% faster than GPT Image 2.5....
GPT Image 2.6 Flare carries a 400K token window, uses the GPT tokenizer and is served by OpenAI. On Hoodgen it sits in the Image tier of the model menu next to its siblings, so you can switch mid conversation without losing the thread.
03 · Release
Release and what changed from the previous version
Released4 November 2026
| Property | Riverflow V2.6 Pro | GPT Image 2.6 Flare | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Released | Oct 2026 | Nov 2026 | Newer release |
| Context | 33K | 400K | Changed |
| Max output | n/a | n/a | Unchanged |
| Input price | Free | $8 | Higher |
| Output price | Free | $8 | Higher |
| Input modalities | text, image | text, image | Unchanged |
| AA index | n/a | n/a | Newer benchmark run |
04 · Capabilities
Features and capabilities
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Vision
Screenshots, charts and photographed documents are read at the text token rate.
07 · Use cases
What can you do with GPT Image 2.6 Flare?
Everyday writing
Drafts, rewrites, summaries and replies.
Research
Source material condensed with the key numbers kept.
Chat
General questions where latency and cost both matter.
Tooling inside Hoodgen
Writer, Humanizer, Coding and the rest of the tool suite.
09 · Pricing
GPT Image 2.6 Flare pricing
Official pricing
Per 1M tokens
$8 / 1M tokens
$8 / 1M in
- Input Price: $8 per 1M tokens
- Output Price: $8 per 1M tokens
- image output from text, image input
Token price
$8 / 1M in
$8 / 1M out
- 400K context
- text, image input
Cheapest route
$8 / 1M in
$8 / 1M out
- 1 route on OpenRouter
- What Hoodgen routes to first
- Same model, lower bill
Market pricing, every route
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | standard | $8 | $8 | n/a | 100.0% |
API pricing and cost calculator
| Rate | Per call | Total | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $0.1720 | $86.00 | 81700 |
| List price | $0.1720 | $86.00 | 81700 |
10 · Developers
API and developer information
| Model ID | openai/gpt-image-2.6-flare |
| Endpoint | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| Parameters | prompt and max_tokens |
| Streaming | Yes, server sent events |
| Modality string | text+image->image |
| Max prompt tokens | 400,000 |
| Max completion tokens | provider default |
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-image-2.6-flare",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this document." }],
"max_tokens": 1024
}'11 · Limitations
Model limitations
| Output cap | Provider default tokens per request. Long deliverables have to be chunked. |
| Benchmarks not published | Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no benchmark score is claimed here. |
| Knowledge cutoff | The provider does not state a fixed cutoff for every release. Verify very recent events against search. |
12 · Comparison
GPT Image 2.6 Flare vs other OpenAI models
| Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M | AA index | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT Image 2.6 Flare | 400K | $8 | $8 | n/a | Nov 2026 |
| GPT Image 1 | 400K | $10 | $10 | n/a | Jun 2026 |
| GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst | 400K | $8 | $8 | n/a | Nov 2026 |
| GPT Image 2 | 400K | $8 | $8 | n/a | Jun 2026 |
| GPT Image 2.5 Flare | 400K | $8 | $8 | n/a | Sept 2026 |
| GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | 400K | $8 | $8 | n/a | Sept 2026 |
13 · Privacy
Privacy and data policy
- On Hoodgen, prompts and attachments answer that request and stay in your conversation history so you can reopen it. They are not used to train models.
- Requests route through OpenRouter to OpenAI and are covered by that provider's API terms.
- Do not paste secrets or personal data you would not send to any hosted model.
14 · FAQ
GPT Image 2.6 Flare questions, answered
GPT Image 2.6 Flare is a image model from OpenAI, released 4 November 2026. GPT Image 2.6 Flare is OpenAI's image generation and editing model optimized for speed: fast iteration and interactive text-to-image and image-to-image workflows, generating about 50% faster than GPT Image 2.5....
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