GPT Image 1.5

AI Image Editing Model

OpenAI's state-of-the-art image generation model with better instruction following and adherence to prompts

What GPT Image 1.5 is good at

Rankings based on human votes in the Lumenfall Arena, where real users pick their favorite without knowing which model made which image. Excels at #2 Photorealism (Text-to-Image), #2 Product, Branding & Commercial (Text-to-Image), #3 Text Rendering (Text-to-Image), #2 Art (Text-to-Image), #3 Photorealism (Image Editing), and #9 Portrait (Text-to-Image) , placing in the top 36% of all competing models.

GPT Image 1.5 Strengths

GPT Image 1.5 outperforms most competing models here

Photorealism

Text-to-Image
Ranked #2 of 38 models · 77.4% win rate Leaderboard
GPT Image 1.5
Same prompt, other models

Product, Branding & Commercial

Text-to-Image
Ranked #2 of 29 models · 76.0% win rate Leaderboard
GPT Image 1.5
Same prompt, other models

Text Rendering

Text-to-Image
Ranked #3 of 39 models · 77.8% win rate Leaderboard
GPT Image 1.5
Same prompt, other models

Art

Text-to-Image
Ranked #2 of 17 models · 80.0% win rate Leaderboard
GPT Image 1.5
Same prompt, other models

Photorealism

Image Editing
Ranked #3 of 21 models · 58.1% win rate Leaderboard
GPT Image 1.5
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Bald man challenge
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Golden Hour Stroll
Same prompt, other models
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#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher
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#6 Wan 2.6 ranks lower
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#16 Seedream 4.0 ranks lower
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#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher
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#6 Wan 2.6 ranks lower

Portrait

Text-to-Image
Ranked #9 of 23 models · 65.4% win rate Leaderboard
GPT Image 1.5
Same prompt, other models
Ranked using Fantasy Warrior

Other categories

GPT Image 1.5 competes but doesn't rank as highly

Portrait

Image Editing
Ranked #7 of 15 models · 54.9% win rate Leaderboard
GPT Image 1.5
GPT Image 1.5 — Portrait (edited)
Before After
Bald man challenge
Same prompt, other models
Before After
#1 Nano Banana 2 ranks higher
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#4 Seedream 5.... ranks higher
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#12 FLUX.2 [pro] ranks lower
Before After
#15 Z-Image Turbo ranks lower

Anime

Image Editing
Ranked #12 of 14 models · 36.1% win rate Leaderboard
GPT Image 1.5
Same prompt, other models