openai/gpt-image-1
Gpt Image 1 is OpenAI's advanced text-to-image AI model. Create photorealistic images, illustrations, and concept art from natural language descriptions with exceptional detail and prompt adherence.
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OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/runopenai/gpt-image-1Input Schema
5 parameters · 1 required · 4 optional
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
prompt | string | Required | The prompt for image generation · Min length: 2 |
quality | string | Optional | Quality for the generated image · Options: auto, low, medium, high · Default: "auto" autolowmediumhigh |
background | string | Optional | Background for the generated image · Options: auto, transparent, opaque · Default: "auto" autotransparentopaque |
aspect_ratio | string | Optional | The aspect ratio of the generated image. · Options: 21:9, 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16 21:916:93:24:35:41:14:53:42:39:16 |
output_format | string | Optional | Output format for the images · Options: jpeg, png · Default: "png" jpegpng |
Output Schema
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | Unique identifier for the generation task |
status | string | Task status: pending, running, completed, failed, timeout |
model | string | Model used for the generation |
outputs | array | Array of output items |
outputs[].url | string | URL of the generated artifact |
outputs[].content_type | string | MIME type (e.g. image/png, video/mp4) |
error | object | null | Error details if failed, null on success |
error.type | string | Machine-readable error type code |
error.message | string | Human-readable error description |
Async Workflow
This model uses asynchronous execution. Submit a request and poll for the result.
- Submit — POST to /v1/run, receive an
id - Poll — GET /v1/run/{id} until status is
completed,failed, ortimeout - Retrieve — Read
outputsfrom the completed response
Code Examples
Ready-to-run snippets
# Step 1: Submit
curl -X POST https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-image-1",
"prompt": "A serene cyberpunk cityscape at twilight, with neon signs glowing in vibrant blues and purples, reflecting on rain-slick streets. Sleek futuristic buildings tower above, connected by glowing skybridges. A lone figure in a hooded jacket stands under a streetlamp, backlit by soft mist. The atmosphere is cinematic, moody",
"quality": "auto",
"background": "auto",
"output_format": "png"
}'
# Step 2: Poll result (replace <id>)
curl https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/<id> \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"API README
Gpt Image 1
Gpt Image 1 is built for instruction-following image generation, with this exact route focused on text and layout rendering. Gpt Image 1 is OpenAI's advanced text-to-image AI model. Create photorealistic images, illustrations, and concept art from natural language descriptions with exceptional detail and prompt adherence. It is designed for production workflows that need a clearly scoped media operation instead of a generic assistant response, preserving the supplied direction while returning an artifact ready for review, iteration, or downstream assembly.
The request surface keeps creative direction and delivery choices explicit through prompt, quality, sync_mode, background, image_size, num_images. Teams can lock source material, describe the intended result, choose supported output controls, and rerun the same request structure across variations. This makes experiments easier to compare and larger pipelines easier to operate without hiding important decisions inside an opaque preset.
Highlights
- Text And Layout Rendering. The
openai/gpt-image-1route is dedicated to text and layout rendering, keeping inputs and outputs matched to this operation. - Quality-Aware Visual Production. Within
openai/gpt-image-1, documented prompt and media controls direct quality-aware visual production while keeping the brief close to the result. - Detailed Compositional Control. The
openai/gpt-image-1result provides detailed compositional control in a machine-consumable form for review and downstream production. - Route-specific control. For
openai/gpt-image-1, documented controls includeprompt,quality,sync_mode,background,image_size,num_images, defining the supported variation space for this exact route.
Pricing
| Configuration | Price |
|---|---|
| Up to 1,000 characters | $0.002 |
| 1,001–2,000 characters | $0.004 |
| Each additional started 1,000 characters | +$0.002 |
When to Use
| Scenario | Why it fits |
|---|---|
| Choose this route | When the deliverable is specifically text and layout rendering, not a neighboring generation or editing task. |
| Production iteration | When creative teams need repeatable quality-aware visual production with an explicit request payload. |
| Automated pipelines | When detailed compositional control must flow into review, storage, compositing, or publishing. |
| Controlled variations | When a stable brief should be rerun while changing only documented inputs. |
| Prototype to scale | When the same openai/gpt-image-1 contract should serve a single experiment and a larger batch later. |
Prompt Guide
Lead with the subject or source, then state the transformation, important spatial or temporal details, style, and finish. Supply only documented fields, keep media URLs reachable, and vary one control at a time when comparing outputs.
{
"prompt": "A directed creative request with subject, setting, style, motion, and finish."
}
Technical Specs
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Model ID | openai/gpt-image-1 |
| Required inputs | prompt |
prompt | string |
quality | string; options: auto, low, medium, high; default: auto |
sync_mode | boolean; default: false |
background | string; options: auto, transparent, opaque; default: auto |
image_size | string; options: auto, 1024x1024, 1536x1024, 1024x1536 |
num_images | integer; default: 1 |
output_format | string; options: jpeg, png, webp; default: png |
safety_tolerance | string; default: 6 |
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