› OpenAI advertises GPT-Image-2.6 as being 50 percent faster at the exact same pricing rate as 2.5.
› The official price list confirms it: 30 USD per million output image tokens, completely unchanged.
› Yet for the exact same medium-quality image of a local bakery, the 2.5 Sunburst model consumed 343 tokens, whereas 2.6 Sunburst used 1,132 tokens.
› The resulting cost: 0.011 USD versus 0.034 USD.