GPT Image 2.6 Flare Edit

• 🆕 Editing endpoint of OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 Flare, released November 2026.
• ⚡ Speed-oriented tier; OpenAI reports Images 2.6 generates 50% faster.
• 👁️ Accepts text plus image inputs and returns edited images.
• 🎯 Suited to iterative, interactive editing rather than long single renders.
• 💬 Catalog exposes it for text-aware inpainting and typography handling.
• 🏢 Sibling of the Sunburst editing variant from the same release.
• 🔧 Shares one API surface with the rest of the 2.6 image family.

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GPT Image 2.6 Flare Edit is the image-editing endpoint of OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 Flare, the speed-oriented half of a two-variant family released in early November 2026 alongside GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst Edit. It takes text and image inputs and returns edited images, making it suited to interactive, iterative editing loops rather than long single-shot renders. Its text-to-image counterpart is GPT Image 2.6 Flare, and GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst is the other variant in the generation.

Relative to its direct predecessor GPT Image 2.5 Flare, the 2.6 generation is a full model refresh of the editing stack: OpenAI's announcement of the Images 2.6 upgrade reports that the new generation produces images roughly 50% faster than the previous one. Earlier steps in this lineage include GPT Image 2 and GPT Image 1.5, which established the same text-plus-image editing interface.

Within the family, Flare and Sunburst are released as paired variants, with Flare positioned as the faster of the two and Sunburst as the slower, higher-effort option; both are reachable through the same API surface, so prompts and editing workflows carry over between them. In this catalog, the Flare Edit entry is exposed specifically as an inpainting-style model, handling text-aware regional changes and typography.