ChatGPT Images 2.5 (GPT Image 2.5) — OpenAI's Newest Image Model

ChatGPT Images 2.5 (the GPT Image 2.5 model) is OpenAI's newest image model, released in September 2026. It keeps what made GPT Image 2 useful — strong prompt following and clean in-image text — and adds better preservation of subjects from reference photos, more precise single-element edits, and noticeably faster generation (OpenAI reports up to 50% lower latency). On SoonMaker it runs as the fast Flare tier, so everyday images come back in seconds. It is our default image model: start here for portraits, posters, product shots and edits from a reference photo.