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Two models, one price tag: $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output tokens. GPT-6 Astra shipped on September 3, Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1. Identical sticker prices, so the comparison looks simple. It is not. The sticker is the same, the bill is not. Run the same work through both and what you pay can double or halve depending on the shape of your workload. This post starts with where that gap comes from, then walks the benchmark table, and finishes with three concrete billing scenarios. ...

Summary: ChatGPT Images 2.5 in 30 Seconds OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on 8 September 2026. Sharper detail, more precise editing, faster generation. Generation latency is down by up to 50% compared with Images 2.0. Sketch is new: draw inside ChatGPT and use the drawing as the reference for the final image. Type @Sketch to open it. Also new: templates for popular formats, comments placed on the image itself for focused edits, and the option to share the prompt alongside the image. Rolling out to all ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex users, on every plan, across desktop, mobile and web. Two new API models: GPT-Image-2.5 Flare (the fast default) and GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst (slower, more precise). OpenAI says more than 3 billion images a week are already created across ChatGPT Images and the GPT-Image models in the API. Whatever else Images 2.5 is, it is an update to one of the most heavily used products the company ships. ...

Summary: Five Days of Receipts Finished Portal on its own. 3,336 tool calls, roughly 21 hours, a $571.18 token bill. Launched a rocket in Factorio Space Age 2.1. No model had ever pushed past blue science before. Beat Pokémon in 18h 12m. GPT-5.6 Sol needed 96h 35m for the same run. Scored 19 out of 20 on a robot arm, at $0.94 per attempt. Produced 3,295 editable objects in Blender from a single prompt. What ties them together: every one of these has a price tag, and it is not small. The launch write-up covered the benchmark table, the pricing and the access rules. Five days on, the picture has changed: instead of OpenAI’s slides, we can now look at what people actually got the model to do. ...

Summary: Where to Find Astra Not free. Free and Go plans do not include Astra; their default model stays GPT-5.6 Luna. On Plus, Astra does not appear in regular Chat. Access arrives through ChatGPT Work and Codex. On Pro, Business and Enterprise, it shows up in the model picker under the Pro option, labelled GPT-6 Pro. The model underneath is Astra. Enterprise workspaces get it off by default at launch. An admin has to enable it. Codex CLI 0.153.0 or newer is required, and the desktop app needs updating too. In the API the model id is gpt-6-astra: 1.05M token context, 128K output, $10 in / $50 out per million tokens. Our GPT-6 Astra launch write-up covered what the model is, the benchmark table and the price tag. Two days later the question landing in the inbox is a different one: “I pay for Plus, there is no Astra anywhere in my model picker, where is it?” ...

Hello everyone! In this guide we take a close look at OpenAI.fm: what it is, how to use it, which voices are available, and what the audio models behind it cost in 2026. Let’s dive in! 🎙️ First, have a listen. The clip below was generated on OpenAI.fm in a few seconds: OpenAI.fm sample: Ash voice, warm podcast host instruction 0:00 What Is OpenAI.fm? OpenAI.fm is an interactive web platform where anyone can try OpenAI’s text-to-speech models for free. Open openai.fm in your browser, type some text, and it speaks it out loud in seconds. The interesting part: you control not just what the voice says, but how it says it (tone, speed, emotion, character). ...