--- title: "GPT Image 2.5 Flare" description: "GPT Image 2.5 Flare on Kuro: OpenAI's instruction-follower, fast build. Six quality rungs, and the cheapest is a fortieth of the dearest." canonical_url: "https://meetkuro.com/models/gpt-image-2.5-flare/" locale: "en" model: "gpt-image-2.5-flare" --- # GPT Image 2.5 Flare OpenAI · Images · standard OpenAI's instruction-follower, fast build. Six quality rungs, and the cheapest is a fortieth of the dearest. ## What it costs - Quality · auto: 11 credits (≈ $0.26) - Quality · low: 1 credit (≈ $0.02) - Quality · medium: 4 credits (≈ $0.10) - Quality · high: 11 credits (≈ $0.26) - Quality · xhigh: 19 credits (≈ $0.45) - Quality · max: 42.5 credits (≈ $1.01) Dollar figures are approximate, at the Starter plan's rate of $19.00 for 800 credits. ## What it takes - **Aspect ratios**: 1:1 3:2 2:3 4:3 3:4 16:9 9:16 - **Reference images**: 7 ## When to reach for it The everyday half of GPT Image 2.5, and the one to start on. It is the model to reach for when the prompt is a set of instructions rather than a description: three named objects in stated positions, a sign that has to read as particular words, a layout with a specific hierarchy. It renders small lettering legibly, which most of this catalog is still bad at, and it takes seven reference images across seven aspect ratios. The quality setting is where the money is, and it reaches further here than it did on GPT Image 2. On “low” a render is 1 credit. On “auto”, the default, it is 11. Above that sit two rungs the older model never had: “xhigh” at 19 credits and “max” at 42.5. Find the composition on “low”, settle the layout, and only then spend a rung that costs forty times as much. Flare and Sunburst are priced identically, rung for rung, so choosing between them is never about money. Flare is the faster one. Move across when an edit here keeps taking something else with it. ## How to prompt GPT Image 2.5 Describe what you want in your own words and Kuro writes the prompt for you. If you would rather write it yourself, this is what GPT Image 2.5 responds to. GPT Image follows long, compositional instructions more literally than any other image family in Kuro, so spend the words: several objects in stated spatial relationships, and text that has to say something specific. Write in full sentences. It parses grammar rather than keyword lists, which is why it handles readable text, diagrams, interface mockups and many constrained elements at once. Treat lettering as a fact about the frame: the exact words, where each sits, and what it looks like. "Overlay burned into the frame, thin white sans-serif, crisp and correctly spelled. Top left: FRONT DOOR." It is the family for dense small type — a sheet of a dozen legible caption strips is the kind of job it is chosen for. Find the composition at low quality, then step up. Low is the same model reasoning about the same prompt; paying for polish before anyone has looked at the layout is money spent on nothing. Say what each reference is for. To change one thing in a finished picture, edit it with only the change rather than rewriting the prompt. A still that will open a clip should carry every word the clip must keep, written large in the frame — a video model asked to invent text only gets close. The same advice covers [GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst](https://meetkuro.com/models/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst.md), [GPT Image 2](https://meetkuro.com/models/gpt-image-2.md). Their pages note what differs. ### What it can't do - Seven aspect ratios: 1:1, 3:2, 2:3, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9 and 9:16. No 21:9, no 4:5, no strips. - Up to seven reference images, a saved Subject's picture included. - Lettering can still come back garbled. Read every word before it ships; a misspelling is a re-roll or an edit that names the word, not something to caption around. - It is not a general remedy. A prompt that fails on Seedream 5 Lite usually fails here too, because the fault is the wording or a missing reference; move here for text and literal composition. ### Use something else when… - The canvas is 4:5, 21:9 or a strip: [Nano Banana 2.1](https://meetkuro.com/models/nano-banana-2.1.md). - It is a product or lifestyle shot with no lettering: [Seedream 5 Lite](https://meetkuro.com/models/seedream-5-lite.md). - A series has to keep one face or product identical: [Nano Banana 2.1](https://meetkuro.com/models/nano-banana-2.1.md). - You need a vector logo or icon: [Recraft V4.1 SVG](https://meetkuro.com/models/recraft-v4.1-svg.md). ## Compared with - [Nano Banana 2.1 vs GPT Image 2.5](https://meetkuro.com/compare/nano-banana-2.1-vs-gpt-image-2.5-flare.md): GPT Image 2.5 when the picture is mostly instructions or lettering. Nano Banana 2.1 when it has to match references or fit an unusual shape. ## GPT Image 2.5 Flare is one pick in the composer. Every model in this catalog runs from the same prompt bar, priced in the same credits. --- ## About Kuro Kuro is an AI picture studio: prompt-driven images, clips, voice-overs and music, and storyboard-backed films with consistent characters across every scene. Agents connect over MCP and can generate directly: ``` claude mcp add kuro https://api.meetkuro.com/mcp --transport http ``` The app is at https://app.meetkuro.com and requires an account. Each guide, model page, comparison and free tool page on this site (not a tool's variants, and not the index pages) has a Markdown twin at its own URL plus `.md`, and so do /benchmarks/, the English /agents/ page (as /agents.md) and the MCP tool reference. Model catalog: https://meetkuro.com/models/