ChatGPT Image Generator
The image model behind ChatGPT's picture generation, available here on its own. Same model, no subscription, and a per-image credit cost you can see before each run — which is the part a chat window does not give you.
Pay per image in credits instead of a monthly plan you may not use.
3 at 1K, 15 at 2K, 30 at 4K — the cheapest image model on the site.
The model's known strength: labels, headings and layout that read as designed.
ChatGPT Image Generator
Where this model gets picked
AI-generated reference frames chosen around this model's known strength — pictures whose content is partly typographic. Information cards, annotated journals and travel posters all fail immediately if the lettering does not hold. They illustrate the territory rather than being outputs captured from this specific model.
Information cards
What is the ChatGPT image generator?
When ChatGPT produces a picture, it is calling OpenAI's image model — the same model available here as GPT Image 2, on its own and without the chat wrapper. Whether that is better than using it inside ChatGPT depends on what gets in your way. The chat window is comfortable and conversational, and it hides two things: what each image costs you, and the controls.
Here the cost of a run shows before you commit to it, resolution is a setting rather than something inferred from your phrasing, and the output arrives as a file rather than as a message you have to save out of a conversation. What you give up is the conversation itself — there is no back-and-forth refining across turns, so the prompt has to carry the intent on its own.
The model's particular strength is text inside the picture: labels on a diagram, headings on a poster, copy on packaging. That is the job it is most often picked for.
Creative engine
What a run costs
Resolution is the only lever on price here, and the range is narrow enough that 2K is an easy default.
The same model, unbundled
OpenAI's image model without a ChatGPT subscription attached to it.
Cost visible per run
The credit estimate appears before you generate rather than being absorbed into a monthly plan.
Good at type and layout
In-image text is what this model is most often reached for.
When to use this instead of ChatGPT
Use it here when you want the controls and the cost visible: a fixed resolution rather than one inferred from your wording, a file rather than a message, and a number in front of you before each run. Use it here too when you only need images occasionally, because a per-image cost beats a monthly subscription that sits idle. Stay in ChatGPT when the conversation is the point — when you expect to refine an image over several turns, or when you want to talk through the idea before committing to a prompt. And reach for a different model entirely when what you need is a multi-photo composite: that is the Gemini line's territory, not this one's.
Controls instead of phrasing
Resolution and aspect ratio are settings here, not things you have to talk the model into.
Occasional use costs less
Per-image credits suit a few images a month better than a subscription does.
Not for composites
For combining several source photos into one image, the Gemini Flash tier is the right tool.
Feature overview
What the model covers here, stated as what it does rather than what a chat interface makes it feel like.
Text to image
Generate a picture from a written description with no source material.
Image to image
Supply a photo and describe the change you want made to it.
Resolution choice
1K, 2K or 4K, set explicitly rather than inferred from the prompt.
Aspect ratio choice
Output shaped for the place the image is going.
GPT Image 2 specs
The generation parameters for this model as it runs here.
- Model
- GPT Image 2 (OpenAI), the image model behind ChatGPT's picture generation
- Input modes
- Text to image / image to image
- Resolution
- 1K / 2K / 4K
- Output format
- PNG / JPEG
- Credit billing
- 10 credits at 1K, 15 at 2K, 30 at 4K
- Best suited to
- Images containing type, layout or labelling
From prompt to file
Four steps, and no conversation to manage.
Pick text or photo input
Generate from a description, or start from a picture you upload.
Write the whole prompt
There is no follow-up turn here, so put the layout, style and any exact wording in from the start.
Set resolution and shape
Choose 1K, 2K or 4K and the aspect ratio, rather than hinting at them in words.
Check credits and generate
Confirm the estimate, run it, and download the file.
What people generate with it
The jobs that play to a model known for handling type and layout.
Infographics and cards
Figures, headings and blocks arranged into something legible in one pass.
Posters and covers
A title that sits inside the composition rather than being added afterwards.
Product and packaging mockups
Copy rendered on the pack, which is the part cheaper models tend to garble.
Everyday images on a budget
At 10 credits a 1K image this is the cheapest model here, which makes iteration cheap too.
One credit balance for every image model
Every model on this page draws from the same balance, and the credit cost appears before you press generate. Failed jobs are never charged.
Free
What's included
- 140 credits before you even sign up — no account needed
- +30 more the moment you create one
- +100 credits a week from daily check-ins
- = up to 570 credits a month — about 28 images or 38 videos, on us
- Photo editing on Nano Banana 2 Lite
- Every model on this page stays visible — upgrade to unlock
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Plus
What's included
- Access to GPT Image 2, Nano Banana 2, Seedream and Qwen
- Up to 4K output
- Watermark-free downloads
- Commercial use rights
- Credits refresh every billing cycle
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Pro
What's included
- Everything in Plus
- Higher image concurrency — run several prompts at once
- No throttle on the generator queue
- Priority support
- Early access to new models as they land
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Max
What's included
- Everything in Pro
- The highest concurrency tier on the site
- Skip soft-rate limits entirely
- Private generation history
- Direct line to support for production work
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Credit packs
One-time top-ups — buy extra credits any time you run low.
8k Credit Pack
What's included
- Credits never expire
- Stacks on top of any plan
- Spent only after your plan credits run out
- Works on every model on this page
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18k Credit Pack
What's included
- Credits never expire
- Stacks on top of any plan
- Spent only after your plan credits run out
- Works on every model on this page
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50k Credit Pack
What's included
- Credits never expire
- Stacks on top of any plan
- Spent only after your plan credits run out
- Works on every model on this page
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110k Credit Pack
What's included
- Credits never expire
- Stacks on top of any plan
- Spent only after your plan credits run out
- Works on every model on this page
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One credit balance for every image model
Use one balance across every model listed below, and check the credit cost before each request. Nothing is charged for a job that fails.
Model credit guide
What each model costs in credits
You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| GPT Image 2 | Text to image and description-based edits. 1K ≈ 20 credits, 2K ≈ 90, 4K ≈ 160. | |
| Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from up to 14 reference photos. Same 20 / 40 / 80 ladder by resolution. | |
| Nano Banana 2 Lite | The free tier's editor. Lightest cost per edit on the site. | |
| Seedream 5 Lite | Fast drafts. Priced at the 1K tier for iteration passes. | |
| Qwen Image 3 | Legible text and page layout rather than photoreal. Priced by resolution. |
ChatGPT image generator FAQ
Common questions about using OpenAI's image model on Veida AI.
It is OpenAI's image model, GPT Image 2 — the same model ChatGPT calls when it makes a picture. What differs is the wrapper around it: controls and a visible per-run cost instead of a conversation.
No. It is billed per image in credits here, so there is no monthly plan to hold.
10 credits at 1K, 15 at 2K and 30 at 4K, which makes it the cheapest image model on the site. The estimate shows before you generate.
Yes. Supply the photo and describe the change. Name what should stay the same as well, or the edit can drift.
Images with type in them — infographics, posters, packaging, anything labelled. Quote the exact wording in your prompt rather than describing it.
For multi-photo composites, use Gemini Flash Image (Nano Banana 2), which accepts up to 14 reference photos in a single run.
Same prompting habits, but here it shares one credit pool with every other model — so you can A/B the identical prompt against Nano Banana 2 or Seedream without a second subscription, and keep whichever engine wins.
Generate with OpenAI's image model
Open the generator, write your prompt, pick a resolution, and generate. No subscription.