Comment by ea016

20 hours ago

Price comparison:

GPT Image 2

  Low     : 1024×1024 $0.006 | 1024×1536 $0.005 | 1536×1024 $0.005

  Medium  : 1024×1024 $0.053 | 1024×1536 $0.041 | 1536×1024 $0.041

  High    : 1024×1024 $0.211 | 1024×1536 $0.165 | 1536×1024 $0.165

GPT Image 1

  Low     : 1024×1024 $0.011 | 1024×1536 $0.016 | 1536×1024 $0.016

  Medium  : 1024×1024 $0.042 | 1024×1536 $0.063 | 1536×1024 $0.063

  High    : 1024×1024 $0.167 | 1024×1536 $0.25  | 1536×1024 $0.25

Weird that they restrict the resolution so much. Does it fall apart with more detail (when zoomed in) or does the cost just skyrocket?

  • It's usually based on what they've been trained on. There aren't very many models that'll do higher resolutions outside of Seedream but adherency is worse.

    • Processing power, not training. The larger the scene in 2ď the more you need to compute. The resolution itself is not flexible. Imagine painting a white canvas. It is still a pixel per pixel algo which costs LLM GPU power while being the easiest thing to do without it.

      You can create larger images by creating separate parts you recombine. But they may not perfectly match their borders.

      It is a Landau thing not a trading thing. The idea of LLM is to work on the unknown.

      1 reply →

    • Need a model trained on closeup/macro shots of everything, to use for upscaling, then run that, as a kernel, over the whole image.

      1 reply →

  • actually gpt-image-2 is VERY flexible with the resolution. You can use arbitrary resolution within the max pixel budget.

Interesting, I wonder why larger outputs are more expensive than smaller square ones on v2, while it’s the other way around in v1.