A quoted image-generation price is incomplete without its quality setting. In OpenRouter'sSeptember 11 measurements, OpenAI's GPT Image 2 billed $0.006 with quality unset and $0.2108 at high quality for the same prompt and 1024-by-1024 size. The high-quality request used substantially more image tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition →, the units billed for generation. This comparison shows how a setting can dominate the bill even when dimensions stay fixed. It does not establish whether the more expensive output is preferable for a particular job.
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token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
