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title: "GPT Image 2"
description: "GPT Image 2 on Kuro: The previous GPT Image, kept on the shelf for work already locked to it. From 1 credit an image (≈ $0.02 on Starter)."
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# GPT Image 2

OpenAI · Images · premium

The previous GPT Image, kept on the shelf for work already locked to it.

## 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)

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

Kept on the shelf. GPT Image 2.5 replaced it on the same rate card — 1 credit on “low”, 11 on “auto” — and added two rungs above that, so there is no price left to argue for staying here. It sits in the picker under Legacy, one press away, for the recipes and saved work already locked to it.

What it was good at is what 2.5 is now better at: a prompt that 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 holds compositional intent through a long prompt more reliably than most of the catalog, and that is what the premium tier bought.

Seven references, seven aspect ratios. Ratio coverage is narrower than Nano Banana's, so if the shape is unusual this was never the model, however well it follows instructions. If you are choosing today rather than re-running something, choose Flare.

## How to prompt GPT Image 2

GPT Image 2 is the previous build, kept for recipes locked to it. It prompts like 2.5 Flare, but can return a 4:3 or 16:9 request on the nearest fixed square, 3:2 or 2:3 canvas and has no quality steps above high, so new work belongs on Flare or Sunburst.

[Read the full GPT Image 2.5 prompting guide](https://meetkuro.com/models/gpt-image-2.5-flare.md)

## Made with it

- **Call out the parts that matter** — Your words, printed exactly as you wrote them.
  ![A cream serum bottle on a travertine plinth with three thin leader lines naming its dropper cap, frosted glass body and flat front label panel](https://meetkuro.com/showcase/ladders/feature-callout.webp)
- **Make it a moving page** — Nine collage scenes, one shared look.
  ![A torn hole in a scrapbook page between a typed prompt card and a photo of a red bicycle, then an encyclopedia spread of lighthouse frames dissolving into static, a compass needle swinging, and a filmstrip carrying the same bicycle across eight frames](https://meetkuro.com/showcase/ladders/explainers/diffusion.webp)
- **Lay it out as one page** — A whole recipe poster, typeset in one image.
  ![A rustic recipe poster for miso butter corn: a script-and-sans title, a plate of charred corn, an ingredients panel with drawn icons, four numbered process scenes and a tip box](https://meetkuro.com/showcase/ladders/explainers/miso-corn.webp)
- **Explain it in fifteen seconds** — Four flat-vector scenes, cut to the voice.
  ![A flat vector calendar crossing itself out and blowing away, then a balance scale weighing one year against every year before it, two bars divided into five fat segments and fifty hairlines, and a figure stepping out of grey doorways onto a bright path](https://meetkuro.com/showcase/ladders/explainers/time.webp)

## In the arena

Ranked #1 with a rating of 1591. 2 of 4

[Week 36, 2026 — Arena week 36: every model can spell now](https://meetkuro.com/arena/2026-w36/)

## Compared with

- [Nano Banana 2 vs GPT Image 2](https://meetkuro.com/compare/nano-banana-2-vs-gpt-image-2.md): GPT Image 2 when the prompt is a set of instructions; Nano Banana 2 when the shape is unusual or the volume is high.

## Guides that cover it

- [Grok Imagine Video 1.5: the complete prompting guide](https://meetkuro.com/guides/grok-imagine-video-1-5-prompting.md): One picture in, up to fifteen seconds out, with sound you cannot turn off. Nine rules, three pipelines and the failures worth knowing about first.
- [P-Video: the complete guide to Pruna's four models](https://meetkuro.com/guides/p-video-prompting.md): Four models, one family: a cheap generator and three performance rigs. What each one takes, what a take really costs, and the failures worth knowing first.
- [Seedance 2.5: the complete prompting guide](https://meetkuro.com/guides/seedance-2-5-prompting.md): Thirty seconds of video with sound from one written brief. Six rules, three pipelines and the failures worth knowing about before you spend anything.
- [Veo 3.1: the complete prompting guide](https://meetkuro.com/guides/veo-3-1-prompting.md): Eight seconds of video that writes its own soundtrack. Three audio channels, seven rules, four pipelines and the failures worth knowing about first.
- [Which image model to reach for, and when](https://meetkuro.com/guides/choosing-an-image-model.md): Twelve image models, from half a credit to twenty-one. What each one is for, where the resolution setting changes the price, and when the cheap tier is right.

## GPT Image 2 is one pick in the composer.

Every model in this catalog runs from the same prompt bar, priced in the same credits.

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## 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/