Overview
A browser image studio built around OpenAI's GPT Image 2, with GPT Image 2.5, GPT Image 1.5/1 and the Nano Banana family switchable behind one credits wallet. Instead of a blank prompt box it ships finished workflows: poster and infographic generation, transparent-background PNGs, editable text and SVG vector export, poster-to-layered-PSD conversion, photo restoration, 360 panoramas, brand kits, app mockups, article illustrations, portrait restyling and a set of social-screenshot generators. Generation costs are shown on the button before you spend - 10 credits per image at Low, 40 at Medium, 110 at High, plus 10 for transparent SVG or PSD output and 20 for image-to-image. You can subscribe or buy credit packs that never expire; either way no OpenAI account or ChatGPT Plus is needed.
Key features
- GPT Image 2 generation and editing with Low/Medium/High quality tiers and 1-4 images per run
- GPT Image 2.5 (Flare and Sunburst), GPT Image 1.5, GPT Image 1 and the Nano Banana family behind the same credits wallet
- True transparent RGBA PNG export, editable SVG vectorisation and layered PSD conversion (beta)
- Prompt-based inpainting with an uploaded reference image and a paint mask, up to 10 source images
- 50+ ready-made prompt templates plus a gallery of worked examples with their outputs
- One-click workflows: posters, infographics, brand kits, app mockups, article illustrations, 360 panoramas, product and ID photos, old photo restoration, photo annotation
- Credits wallet with subscriptions or non-expiring one-time packs, and My Works history
- English plus a Chinese (zh) mirror, with CNY pricing and WeChat Pay advertised for yearly plans and packs
Trial checklist
['Sign up and use the 3 free credits on one real prompt you would actually ship - the first image is charged 3 credits instead of 10, so it costs nothing and shows you text rendering on your own copy', 'Run the same prompt at Low and High quality before buying, so you know whether the 4x credit difference is worth it for your use case', 'Test the transparent-PNG and SVG add-ons on one image each: both add 10 credits and SVG tracing fails on photographs, so confirm the output opens correctly in Figma, Illustrator or Inkscape first', 'If you are choosing a plan, compare a year of credits against a pack on your own monthly volume - yearly credits expire in 30-day blocks, packs never expire', 'Decide before paying whether non-refundable is acceptable to you; there is no trial and no refund route once a charge clears']
Use category-specific evidence
Artificial Analysis Image methodology [7] ↗ · Artificial Analysis methodology [5] ↗
Benchmark numbers are evidence for a specific task and configuration, not a universal product score. See benchmark policy →
Pricing
Current official summary: Free: 3 credits on sign-up, first image charged 3 credits (normally 10). Yearly (advertised as Save 50% vs monthly): Starter $49.90/year for 12,000 credits (~$4.16/month, $0.0042 per credit), Pro $199.90/year for 60,000 credits (~$16.66/month, $0.0033 per credit), Ultra $499.90/year for 240,000 credits (~$41.66/month, $0.0021 per credit). Monthly: Starter $8.40/month (shown against a $14.90 anchor) for 1,000 credits, Pro $33.90/month (anchor $39.90) for 5,000, Ultra $84.90/month (anchor $99.90) for 20,000. One-time credit packs, credits never expire: Taster $9.90 (anchor $19.90) for 500 credits, Starter $39.90 (anchor $79.80) for 5,000, Pro $99.90 (anchor $199) for 20,000, Max $199.90 (anchor $399.80) for 50,000. Generation cost for GPT Image 2: 10 credits at Low/Standard, 40 at Medium, 110 at High/HD, plus 10 credits each for transparent background, SVG vectorisation or layered PSD, and 20 for image-to-image. Monthly subscription credits expire at the end of each cycle; yearly credits arrive as twelve 30-day blocks; pack credits never expire. No free trial on paid plans; all purchases final and non-refundable. Prices in USD.
Submitted via form by the vendor 2026-10-22 12:18 UTC (05:18 PDT); editorial entry written independently from live pages on the site's Pacific working date 2026-10-22. The submission's summary and category (Creative) were accurate. Prices were read from the rendered /pricing cards and cross-checked against the /zh/pricing mirror and the site's llms.txt; every figure agreed and the per-credit lines reconcile with the credit counts ($49.90/12,000 = $0.0042, $199.90/60,000 = $0.0033, $499.90/240,000 = $0.0021), and yearly allowances equal twelve monthly allowances. Credit costs per image come from the home page pricing block and the FAQ. Legal pages: /privacy-policy and /terms-of-service return 200 with real substance, while /privacy, /terms, /refund-policy, /contact, /legal, /cookie-policy and /acceptable-use all 404; the ToS defers generated-image retention to unspecified 'image storage terms' that are not published. Non-affiliation is disclosed in both the privacy policy and the ToS. Trackers were read from the served markup: Google Analytics 4 G-GC01M2BQCY (gtag config) and Microsoft Clarity (clarity.ms/tag) are injected on /privacy-policy and /terms-of-service themselves, with no consent banner anywhere and no analytics processor named in the notice, against a policy sentence saying data is not transferred to outside parties. Contact: support@imagesv2.ai and alex@imagesv2.ai both returned 250 against the domain's Cloudflare MX with a random local part returning 550 5.1.1, so the published address is a working mailbox and the domain is not a catch-all. Domain registered 2026-04-05 via Dynadot behind a privacy service (Cloudflare NS jake/noor), sixteen days before OpenAI released gpt-image-2 on 2026-04-21 - a pre-launch registration of a model name, not an incumbent under this name. Name family sweeps found four unrelated operators on four different Cloudflare NS pairs (gptimage2.com, gptimage2.ai, gpt-image-2.com, and imagesv2.com now held by an Indonesian gambling site), so the request asks whether a relationship exists rather than demanding rights. No affiliate or partner page exists (/affiliates, /affiliate, /referral, /partners and /api/referrals all 404).
Pricing changes often — verify current plans on the official site before buying. Dated snapshots: Pricing Watch.
Use cases
- Producing a poster, ad or slide graphic where the text inside the image has to be readable on the first pass
- Cutting a subject out to a true RGBA transparent PNG for product listings or design work without a second tool
- Vectorising a logo, icon or flat illustration to editable SVG for Figma or Illustrator
- Restoring or annotating an old photo, and batch-producing the same visual in several languages
- Buying credits for occasional work instead of subscribing to a second monthly AI plan
Pros
- Non-affiliation is stated in the legal notices in plain words - "GPT Image 2 (imagesv2.ai) is an independent third-party tool. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to OpenAI" - which matters because the product is branded with OpenAI's model name
- Processors are named with what each one receives: Stripe for payments (card numbers are not stored, only transaction and subscription metadata), Cloudflare and Vercel for CDN and hosting including the edge metadata logged at registration, login and payment, with databases in the US or EU and cross-border transfer disclosed for mainland China users
- Retention is written as periods rather than a phrase: IP address and network/risk signals up to 12 months then aggregated or deleted, payment records at least 5 years for tax and accounting, fraud or legal records longer as required
- The rights section names both the EU GDPR and the PRC Personal Information Protection Law and lists access, rectification, erasure, portability, objection and withdrawal of consent with a stated 30-day response target
- Output ownership is stated without overclaiming: images are the user's "subject to OpenAI's usage policies" and the site does not claim ownership of what you generate
- The pricing arithmetic holds up and agrees across surfaces - the /pricing cards, the /zh/pricing mirror and llms.txt carry the same figures, and the per-credit line matches the credit count ($49.90 for 12,000 = $0.0042, $199.90 for 60,000 = $0.0033, $499.90 for 240,000 = $0.0021), with each yearly tier delivering exactly twelve months of the monthly allowance
- Contact routes are real mailboxes, not a forwarder: support@imagesv2.ai and the submitting alex@imagesv2.ai both answered 250 against the domain's own Cloudflare MX while a random local part returned 550 5.1.1, so the domain is not a catch-all
- It is a working application rather than a pre-launch shell: the generator, per-run credit cost, My Works history, model list and 56 internal pages are served live, with no "sales open after activation" language anywhere
Cons
- No controller is named on any page - no company, trading name, postal address or company number, only the brand and an email - and the Terms' governing-law clause is circular ("the laws of the jurisdiction in which imagesv2.ai operates"), with a binding-arbitration clause that names no seat, so a buyer cannot tell whose consumer law applies
- The privacy policy says "We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties" except for legal obligations or protecting rights, while the policy page itself loads Google Analytics 4 (G-GC01M2BQCY) and Microsoft Clarity session recording - neither is named in the policy, and neither waits for consent because the site has no consent banner
- Training use is unstated: no page says whether prompts, uploaded source images or outputs are used to train or fine-tune anything, by ImagesV2 or by the model providers it calls
- Generated-image retention is deferred rather than answered - "governed separately by your plan's image storage terms" - and no such document is published anywhere on the site
- Paid plans are non-refundable and there is no trial: "All purchases are final and non-refundable unless otherwise required by law", credit packs are also non-refundable, a refund policy page does not exist, and the only free path is 3 credits
- Subscription credits expire while one-time pack credits do not: monthly allowances die at the end of each cycle, and a yearly plan arrives as twelve blocks that each expire 30 days after payment, so unused credits in a block are lost
- The promotion presentation is aggressive: an always-on "Limited-Time 50% OFF" flash-sale banner with no stated end date, and the monthly cards are shown against crossed-out anchors ($14.90, $39.90, $99.90) that sit above the price actually charged
- The model supply chain is not disclosed: the site says models are "called on our side" without naming the API provider or the model snapshot, so a buyer cannot confirm which GPT Image 2 build they get; prompts are capped at 5,000 characters and layered PSD export is labelled beta
- The shipped page source still carries the theme's placeholder footer config - github.com/your-app-name, discord.gg/your-app-name and mailto:support@your-domain.com - even though the rendered footer shows the real support address
Who ImagesV2 is for
ImagesV2 is aimed at teams and individuals who need designers, marketers and e-commerce sellers who need finished image assets - posters with readable text, true transparent pngs, editable svg and layered psd - from openai's gpt image 2 without an openai account, and who would rather buy credits than add another monthly ai subscription. It is designed for creative workflows where output quality, adoption effort, and operating cost all matter. Compare alternatives first if you require self-hosting, unusually deep customization, or tighter policy controls than the official plan provides.
Buying decision
| Keep it when | Designers, marketers and e-commerce sellers who need finished image assets - posters with readable text, true transparent PNGs, editable SVG and layered PSD - from OpenAI's GPT Image 2 without an OpenAI account, and who would rather buy credits than add another monthly AI subscription is the job you repeat. |
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| Test first when | No controller is named on any page - no company, trading name, postal address or company number, only the brand and an email - and the Terms' governing-law clause is circular ("the laws of the jurisdiction in which imagesv2.ai operates"), with a binding-arbitration clause that names no seat, so a buyer cannot tell whose consumer law applies. |
| Before you pay | Run the trial checklist and check the current plan limit on the official pricing page. |
Verdict
The call: ImagesV2 has an AIToolsEssentials editorial score of 3.8/5. Non-affiliation is stated in the legal notices in plain words - "GPT Image 2 (imagesv2.ai) is an independent third-party tool. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to OpenAI" - which matters because the product is branded with OpenAI's model name. Price this before you renew: no controller is named on any page - no company, trading name, postal address or company number, only the brand and an email - and the terms' governing-law clause is circular ("the laws of the jurisdiction in which imagesv2.ai operates"), with a binding-arbitration clause that names no seat, so a buyer cannot tell whose consumer law applies.
Run one real task from your work this week. That tells you more than this review.
How ImagesV2 compares
In creative, ImagesV2 sits next to Adobe Firefly, AIBase, BeadPattern and 16 others. The useful part is non-affiliation is stated in the legal notices in plain words - "gpt image 2 (imagesv2.ai) is an independent third-party tool. we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to openai" - which matters because the product is branded with openai's model name. The part to price first is no controller is named on any page - no company, trading name, postal address or company number, only the brand and an email - and the terms' governing-law clause is circular ("the laws of the jurisdiction in which imagesv2.ai operates"), with a binding-arbitration clause that names no seat, so a buyer cannot tell whose consumer law applies. Read the side-by-side before you pay for a second seat.
How we evaluated
The AIToolsEssentials rating is an editorial score—not an external benchmark. It summarizes job fit, likely output quality, ease of adoption, and operational cost using published product information, benchmark context where the exact model is identifiable, and the repeatable trial checklist above. Benchmarks never determine the final product rating by themselves. See our editorial methodology, evidence ledger, and benchmark evidence policy.
Frequently asked questions
How much does ImagesV2 cost?
Three ways to buy. Yearly: Starter $49.90 (12,000 credits, about $4.16 a month), Pro $199.90 (60,000), Ultra $499.90 (240,000). Monthly: Starter $8.40 for 1,000 credits, Pro $33.90 for 5,000, Ultra $84.90 for 20,000. One-time packs whose credits never expire: Taster $9.90 (500), Starter $39.90 (5,000), Pro $99.90 (20,000), Max $199.90 (50,000). New accounts get 3 credits, and the first image is charged 3 instead of the normal 10. The pricing page, its Chinese mirror and llms.txt carry the same figures.
Do I need an OpenAI account or ChatGPT Plus?
No. ImagesV2 calls the models on its own side, so you sign up with an ImagesV2 account and pay in credits. The catch is that you also inherit ImagesV2's terms on refunds, credit expiry and data handling rather than OpenAI's, and the site does not name the API provider it uses or which GPT Image 2 snapshot it serves.
Do credits expire?
It depends which kind you buy. One-time pack credits never expire. Subscription credits do: each month's allowance expires when that cycle ends, and a yearly plan is delivered as twelve monthly blocks where each block expires 30 days after payment, spent oldest-first. Buying a pack is the only route that keeps its value indefinitely.
Can I get a refund?
Not as a matter of course. The Terms state that all purchases are final and non-refundable unless required by law, that credit packs are also non-refundable, and there is no refund policy page and no free trial on paid plans. The 3 free credits are the only way to test output before paying.
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