# GPT-Image-2.6 Flare cost per image calculator: run it free, or from your agent

Cost per image on GPT-Image-2.6 Flare by quality and size, from OpenAI's token prices and calculator.

## Prompt

Use looot to price images on OpenAI's GPT-Image-2.6 Flare: [images] images at [quality] quality, [size]. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Read today's prices from https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-image-2.6-flare with the page to markdown job. 3. Take the output tokens per image from OpenAI's image generation guide. 4. Return cost per image and in total with each price's source link.

## What it needs

Quality and size, or your own image output tokens, an image count, and optionally text and image input tokens, cached or not

## What comes back

- cost per image
- cost for all your images
- each token type with its count, price per million and cost
- the OpenAI docs page each price comes from

## Endpoints and providers

None. The tool on the web page runs in the browser and calls no endpoint.

## What it costs

Nothing. The tool on the web page runs in the visitor's browser: no account, no API call and no limit per hour. The prompt above runs the same job from your own looot account with current data, billed per call.

## Budget an image feature

Type how many images your app makes a month and see the bill at each quality before you ship.

## Pick a quality

Compare low, medium, high, xhigh and max on the same size. Output tokens per image grow with quality, and so does the cost.

## Price edits

Add the image input tokens of your reference images and the prompt tokens. Cached tokens have their own lower price.

## Check an agent run

Paste the token counts from a real API response and see what that one image cost.

## Does OpenAI publish a price per image for GPT-Image-2.6 Flare?

No. OpenAI's model page prices it per million tokens: text input, cached text input, image input, cached image input and image output. The calculator turns those token prices into a cost per image.

## How many output tokens does one image use?

It depends on quality and size. The calculator in OpenAI's image generation guide gives token counts for its GPT-Image-2.6 (Sunburst and Flare) option, and this tool uses the counts it gives for low, medium, high, xhigh and max at three sizes.

## Can I use my own token counts?

Yes. Pick My own token count and type the image output tokens from usage.output_tokens in your API response. The input fields take your prompt and reference image tokens.

## Does the complexity setting change the price?

OpenAI's image generation guide says adjusting complexity has no separate fee. Complexity takes low, medium or high and defaults to high when omitted.

## Can I run GPT-Image-2.6 Flare through the Batch API?

No. OpenAI's model page lists image generation and image edit as its endpoints, and Batch as not supported. The pricing page has no Batch row for it.

## How does Flare differ from Sunburst?

OpenAI's image generation guide says GPT-Image-2.6 includes Sunburst for detailed visual work and Flare for fast iteration. The pricing page lists both at the same per-token prices.

## What is not counted?

Streaming partial images, which OpenAI's calculator also excludes. Input tokens count only when you type them: the calculator has no estimate of its own for prompts or reference images.

## Is the calculator free?

Yes. It runs in your browser, needs no account and makes no API call. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.

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## Last reviewed

2026-11-11.