OpenAI modelsimage generation api

openai/gpt-image-1/edit

Name: GPT Image 1 Edit
Author: OpenAI

Gpt Image 1 Edit by OpenAI - AI-powered image editing, style transfer, and transformation. Edit photos with natural language instructions, remove backgrounds, change styles, and enhance images effortlessly.

Input

Prompt(string)

The prompt for image generation

Image URL or upload(array)

Upload

PNG, JPEG, WebP, or GIF · 20 MiB maximum each

The URLs of the images to use as a reference for the generation.

Output Format(string)

Output format for the images Allowed values: jpeg, png.

Quality(string)

Quality for the generated image Allowed values: auto, low, medium, high.

Background(string)

Background for the generated image Allowed values: auto, transparent, opaque.

Input Fidelity(string)

Input fidelity for the generated image Allowed values: low, high.

Aspect Ratio(string)

The aspect ratio of the generated image. Allowed values: 21:9, 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, 1:1, 4:5, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16.

Idle

Example output — click Run to generate your own

Production endpoint

Send your first request

OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.

POSThttps://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run

Model IDopenai/gpt-image-1/edit

Input Schema

7 parameters · 1 required · 6 optional

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`prompt`	string	Required	The prompt for image generation · Min length: 2
`images`	string[]	Optional	The URLs of the images to use as a reference for the generation.
`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
`input_fidelity`	string	Optional	Input fidelity for the generated image · Options: low, high · Default: "high" lowhigh

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, or timeout
Retrieve — Read outputs from 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/edit",
  "images": [
    "https://static.sandbase.ai/examples/openai/gpt-image-1/edit/input_images_0.png"
  ],
  "prompt": "Make this pixel-art style.",
  "quality": "auto",
  "background": "auto",
  "output_format": "png",
  "input_fidelity": "high"
}'

# Step 2: Poll result (replace <id>)
curl https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/run/<id> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

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API README

Gpt Image 1 Edit

Gpt Image 1 Edit is built for instruction-following image generation, with this exact route focused on precise image editing. Gpt Image 1 Edit by OpenAI - AI-powered image editing, style transfer, and transformation. Edit photos with natural language instructions, remove backgrounds, change styles, and enhance images effortlessly. 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, image_urls. 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

Precise Image Editing. The openai/gpt-image-1/edit route is dedicated to precise image editing, keeping inputs and outputs matched to this operation.
Quality-Aware Visual Production. Within openai/gpt-image-1/edit, 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-1/edit result provides detailed compositional control in a machine-consumable form for review and downstream production.
Route-specific control. For openai/gpt-image-1/edit, documented controls include prompt, quality, sync_mode, background, image_size, image_urls, 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 precise image editing, 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/edit` 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/edit`
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
`image_urls`	array
`num_images`	integer; default: 1
`output_format`	string; options: jpeg, png, webp; default: png
`input_fidelity`	string; options: low, high; default: high
`safety_tolerance`	string; default: 6

Related Models

openai/gpt-image-1
openai/gpt-image-1-mini/edit