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GPT Image 2: what one image costs
2 channels sell GPT Image 2. Each bills in its own unit — per token, per megapixel or per image — so every rate below is reduced to the same thing: one 1024×1024 image, with the conversion shown.
1K spread
$0.006 at OpenRouter vs $0.03 at kie.ai — 5× for the same image.
Published rates
| Channel | Size | Billed as | List rate | Per image | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter ↗cheapest | 1K † | 200 tokens | $0.00003/token | $0.006billed $0.006 | 2026-09-21 ↗ |
| kie.ai ↗ | 1K † | 6 credits | 6 cr | $0.03 | 2026-09-21 ↗ |
| kie.ai ↗cheapest | 2K † | 10 credits | 10 cr | $0.05 | 2026-09-21 ↗ |
| kie.ai ↗cheapest | 4K † | 16 credits | 16 cr | $0.08 | 2026-09-21 ↗ |
† reduced to a per-image number from the channel's own token, megapixel or credit rate; the conversion used is on the row.
“billed” figures were measured by OpenRouter on 2026-09-11 and are reproduced here with attribution — their write-up. They are not our own measurements.
Rates are list prices as published by each channel on the date shown, and can change without notice. A channel that didn't respond on the latest sweep keeps its last verified row and date — it is never silently refreshed. Spreads only ever compare the same output size.
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