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GPT Image 2.6 Flare

OpenAI's newest, and the quick one: everyday photos and edits from your reference photos

1K · 2K
Sizes: Up to 16
Reference photos: About 40 s
One picture: From 18 credits
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Made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare

Every picture here was made by GPT Image 2.6 Flare on PicYep. Use one’s prompt to make your own.

Studio headshotUse this prompt

Paparazzi flash close-up, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare — Paparazzi flash close-upUse this prompt

Collectible figurine, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare — Collectible figurineUse this prompt

3×3 portrait grid, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare — 3×3 portrait gridUse this prompt

Christmas family photo, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare — Christmas family photoUse this prompt

Pet portrait, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare — Pet portraitUse this prompt

Product still life, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare — Product still lifeUse this prompt

Product storyboard, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare — Product storyboardUse this prompt

Food photography, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare — Food photographyUse this prompt

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Why pick GPT Image 2.6 Flare

What it does best, each with a picture it made on PicYep.

Branding, posters and layouts

Logos, packaging, posters and pages with clean type and a clear structure, close to what a designer would hand over.

Use this prompt

Characters that stay the same

Character sheets and grids of poses where the person is the same in every panel, ready to animate.

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Explainers and knowledge cards

Product breakdowns, step-by-step cards and storyboards that put a lot of information in order.

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X · Nov 8, 2026

What people say about GPT Image

We read the most-liked posts about GPT Image on X, up to Nov 8, 2026. Here is what comes up most, in our words; each links to the post.

Designers were struck by how far GPT Image 2 goes in branding work.

One creator runs it every day for science and knowledge cards, from gadgets to landmarks, and calls it made for the job.

GPT Image 2.5 drew a full combat sprite sheet that stunned the person who asked for it.

GPT Image 2.6 makes GIFs straight from a prompt; meme packs take minutes.

One prompt, 4 models

The prompt for “Studio headshot”, sent unchanged to each model, one picture each. Tap a picture to open that model.

GPT Image 2.6 Flare18 credits

GPT Image 2.5 Flare6 credits

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst6 credits

GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst18 credits

Want something else?

Every model on PicYep is a tap away. For these, another one does it best.

Tested on PicYep

On Oct 30, 2026 we sent the same 11 prompts to every model, unchanged. GPT Image 2.6 Flare took 12 s a picture on average; the quickest came back in 8 s.

See every model on the same prompts

What GPT Image 2.6 Flare does

Credits per photo: 1K 18 · 2K 34
usual wait: 1K about 40 s · 2K about 30 s
From words alone: Yes
With your photos: Up to 16 photos
Shapes: 1:1 · 4:3 · 3:4 · 4:5 · 16:9 · 9:16 · 3:2 · 2:3 · 21:9

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What people said on launch day

From posts on X on November 4, 2026, the day it came out. Rankings move as votes come in.

Speed: OpenAI says the 2.6 models make images 50% faster. Arena measured almost twice the speed of GPT Image 2.5, and Design Arena put Flare at 2.6 times. In our same-prompt test the model itself took about 12 seconds, against 16 for GPT Image 2.5 Flare. Your wait, shown above, also covers sending your photos and saving the result.
Sources: OpenAI · Arena · Design Arena
Rankings: Early votes on Design Arena put Flare first for portraits, architecture and typography. On Arena, Flare at medium quality came fourth for images from words and fifth for edits.
Sources: Design Arena · Arena
Picture quality: OpenAI describes the quality as similar to GPT Image 2.5, with more realistic photos. Testers were split: some preferred the pictures from 2.5, others saw the same quality in half the time. The same-prompt test puts both side by side.
See the same-prompt test →Sources: Arena · synthwavedd · leo114119 · M_H_Tawfk
Credits: At low and medium quality 2.6 uses more of OpenAI's tokens for each picture than 2.5 does, so those settings cost more credits here. High quality costs about the same.
Sources: current_kev