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GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

GPT-Image-2.5 Flare is OpenAI's lower-latency hosted image model, released through the API and the Images 2.5 product family. It improves speed, editing consistency, reference fidelity, text rendering, and photorealistic output while retaining layered safety checks.

DOOM SCORE63.0out of 100model risk profile, not the overall index
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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1

Why this model scores 63.0

Flare materially improves image quality and iteration speed and is broadly accessible through a hosted API, supporting high deployment and synthetic-media misuse potential but little independent autonomy. OpenAI's system card identifies more convincing deepfakes as a risk and documents prompt, input, and output filtering plus C2PA and invisible watermarking. Hosted access preserves more provider control than an open-weight release.

Capability82
Autonomy4
Deployment96
Misuse potential79
Control difficulty56
MODEL-ATTRIBUTED EVIDENCE

News tied to GPT-Image-2.5 Flare

The model score of 63.0 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 67.4 measures the complete temporally weighted evidence record. These values answer different questions.

NET MODEL-ATTRIBUTED INDEX CONTRIBUTION+0.13

Each article's current Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores use a bounded temporal offset around their technical profile, but never feed back into the overall index.

Misuse TOWARD

OpenAI releases more realistic Images 2.5 models with deepfake safeguards

OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.5 Flare and Sunburst across ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API. The system card says greater realism can enable more convincing political, sexual, and sensitive deepfakes, while layered filters, C2PA metadata, and invisible watermarking mitigate misuse.

Full item contribution
+0.26
GPT-Image-2.5 Flare equal share
+0.13
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Model score history

  1. R1
    Doom Score 63.0

    Adds OpenAI's exact low-latency Images 2.5 API model with source-backed capability, access, misuse, and control details.

    10 Sept 2026
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DoomBench social sharing card for GPT-Image-2.5 Flare.
  1. GPT-Image-2.5 Flare by OpenAI has a DoomBench model risk score of 63.0 out of 100, based on five transparent version-specific dimensions rather than the overall index.

  2. GPT-Image-2.5 Flare's highest current DoomBench dimension is deployment at 96.0 out of 100; the profile publishes every component score and its editorial rationale.

  3. DoomBench links 1 source-backed evidence item to GPT-Image-2.5 Flare, while keeping the model's risk profile separate from each item's contribution to the live Doom Index.

    https://www.doombench.com/models/openai-gpt-image-2-5-flare