GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst Edit

• 🆕 Editing variant of OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst, released November 2026.
• 🔧 Handles inpainting and image-to-image edits from text plus image inputs.
• 🎯 Supports markup-guided edits alongside standard image editing.
• 👁️ Also covers SVG output and animated GIF generation in the family.
• 🧠 A complexity setting controls planning effort before rendering.
• ⚡ Sibling Flare variant targets speed; Sunburst targets detail and edit precision.
• 📚 OpenAI advises 2.5 Sunburst workflows migrate first to 2.6 Sunburst.
• 💬 Text-aware inpainting with strong typography handling, per the catalog listing.

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GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst Edit is the editing-focused entry point to OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst model, released on 5 November 2026 alongside GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst, GPT Image 2.6 Flare and GPT Image 2.6 Flare Edit. Where the Flare line is positioned by OpenAI as the smaller model for workflows in which response time matters most, Sunburst is described in the same documentation as the base model for work that needs more detail or precise edits. In this catalog it is exposed as an inpainting endpoint, geared toward text-aware edits and typography handling.

Functionally, the model generates and edits images from both text and image inputs, and the 2.6 family documentation covers a complexity setting, markup-guided edits, SVG output and animated GIF output.

Relative to its same-family predecessor GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (and the broader 2.5 pair with GPT Image 2.5 Flare), 2.6 is the direct successor generation. OpenAI's own migration guidance is tier-matched: a 2.5 Flare workflow should be tested on 2.6 Flare, and a 2.5 Sunburst workflow on 2.6 Sunburst, after saving a baseline of difficult edits, exact text, product geometry and transparent assets. The documentation also notes that GPT Image 2.6 does not support reasoning summaries.

For older comparisons, the catalog also lists GPT Image 2 and GPT Image 1.5 editing variants. OpenAI positions Sunburst for work needing more detail or precise edits, and Flare for latency-sensitive workflows.