ChatGPT Images 2.5 generates images with sharper details, lower latency, and improved multi-turn editing consistency across desktop, mobile, web, and API workflows.
What the product does and how it is positioned
ChatGPT Images 2.5 is an updated image generation model from OpenAI designed for higher visual fidelity, faster generation speeds, and precise multi-turn editing.
Available across ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API, the release introduces interactive tools including built-in sketching, format templates, on-image commenting, and prompt sharing.
Source-supported ways to use the product
Users draw rough visual guides directly inside ChatGPT using Sketch and provide text descriptions to generate fully rendered concept images.
Creators and developers refine existing visuals across multiple conversational turns or API calls without losing compositional consistency or degrading image quality.
Users start marketing collateral such as posters, merch, and flyers by selecting pre-structured templates and adding tailored visual details.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 allows users to modify targeted elements in an image while preserving the surrounding composition, background, and subject identity.
During extended multi-turn conversations, the model retains earlier modifications and is intended to reduce image quality degradation across sequential revisions.
OpenAI provides two dedicated models within the Images API to accommodate different speed and fidelity requirements in production applications.
Both variants extend the underlying visual fidelity and editing consistency of Images 2.5 to programmatic image generation pipelines.
Checks to run with your own material and workflow
What was checked and when
Answers based on the source-checked product record
ChatGPT Images 2.5 is accessible across desktop, mobile, and web interfaces for ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users, as well as programmatically via the Images API.
Sketch is an in-chat tool activated by typing @Sketch that lets users draw a visual guide directly in ChatGPT to direct the layout and composition of a generated image.
GPT-Image-2.5 Flare is the default high-speed API model with 50 percent lower latency than GPT-Image-2, whereas GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst provides higher precision with longer generation times.
The model incorporates automated checks on prompts and images to help prevent harmful outputs, alongside C2PA metadata standards and invisible watermarking to identify generated media.
The model preserves subjects and distinctive features from reference photos while applying new lighting, textures, settings, compositions, or visual styles requested by the user.
