# GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst now available on AI Gateway

Source: [Vercel](https://vercel.com/changelog/gpt-image-2-5-flare-and-sunburst-now-available-on-ai-gateway)  
Feed7 permalink: https://feed7.dev/p/gpt-image-2-5-flare-and-sunburst-now-available-on-ai-gateway-15krfwf  
Published: 2026-09-08T00:00:00.000Z  
Trust: Official Source (official_source)

## Why Included

Vercel AI Gateway adds GPT Image 2.5 Flare for faster iteration and Sunburst for tighter composition control. Both support generation, reference-based edits, and transparent backgrounds.

## Source Summary

AI Gateway now exposes **openai/gpt-image-2.5-flare** and **openai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst**. Both generate and edit images, accept references, support detailed layouts and transparent backgrounds, and can preserve surrounding elements during targeted edits.

## Practical Implication

Use **Flare for faster iteration** and switch to **Sunburst for tighter control** over composition and detail. The same gateway also offers usage and cost tracking, retries, failover, budgets, and routing rules.

## Agent-Ready Context

AI Gateway now exposes **openai/gpt-image-2.5-flare** and **openai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst**. Both generate and edit images, accept references, support detailed layouts and transparent backgrounds, and can preserve surrounding elements during targeted edits.

Use **Flare for faster iteration** and switch to **Sunburst for tighter control** over composition and detail. The same gateway also offers usage and cost tracking, retries, failover, budgets, and routing rules.

Sunburst takes longer to generate, while the material provides no latency, quality, or cost comparison between the models. Provider pricing is passed through without inference markup or a platform fee, including BYOK requests.

## Connected Context

Feed7 judgment across 713 accumulated Signals:

This adds an explicit two-stage image workflow inside one model family: use Flare for iteration and Sunburst when composition or detail needs tighter control. It reinforces the Gateway as a routing layer for interchangeable generation and editing, but does not displace Seedream, Muse, or Grok because the supplied material contains no cross-model evidence on quality, latency, or cost.

- [Seedream 5.0 Pro is now available on AI Gateway](https://feed7.dev/p/seedream-5-0-pro-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway-16xbn41) — Seedream remains a relevant alternative for text-heavy and dense-layout work, while Flare and Sunburst introduce a speed-versus-control choice without supplying evidence that either is better for those workloads.
- [Muse Image now available on AI Gateway](https://feed7.dev/p/muse-image-now-available-on-ai-gateway-0ql84pl) — Both support generation, editing, and reference-guided iteration through the Gateway; the new pair adds an explicit fast-iteration versus tighter-control split that Muse’s supplied record does not describe.
- [Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway](https://feed7.dev/p/grok-imagine-image-2-0-preview-now-available-on-vercel-ai-gateway-1mdku5a) — Grok and the new models both emphasize targeted edits that preserve surrounding details, but only Grok’s supplied record adds batching and explicit resolution tiers, leaving application requirements—not availability alone—to determine routing.

## Context Map

- Layer: infra
- Domains: image
- Topics: gateways, generative-media, model-selection

## Uncertainty

- Sunburst takes longer to generate, while the material provides no latency, quality, or cost comparison between the models. Provider pricing is passed through without inference markup or a platform fee, including BYOK requests.

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