OpenAI makes ChatGPT’s image generation available as API

OpenAI has added the model behind its wildly popular image generation tool, used in ChatGPT, to its API. Image input tokens will be $10 per million tokens, while image output tokens, or the generated image, will be a whopping $40 per million tokens. Google’s image generation model, Imagen, charges paying users $0.03 per image generated using the Gemini API. Image generation in one placeOpenAI allowed ChatGPT users to generate and edit images directly on the chat interface in April, a few months after adding image generation into ChatGPT through the GPT-4o model. By adding the image model to its API, OpenAI allows enterprises to connect gpt-image-1 to their own ecosystems.