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GPT Image 2.6

OpenAI's newest image model makes animated GIFs as well as stills. Describe the motion, pick up to 16 frames and how fast they play, and it hands back a loop ready for a post, a banner or a sticker. Flare and Sunburst both do it.

Make a GIF with GPT Image 2.6
An animated GOOD MORNING mug with rising steam and moving sunlight, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF The same GOOD MORNING mug loop made with GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst GIF
One GIF prompt on both versions, 8 frames at 200 ms each. Flip between them: Flare added a small heart under the words, and Sunburst kept the lettering plain.
The prompt

Animated loop for a social post. A sunny yellow ceramic mug with "GOOD MORNING" in hand-lettered brown script sits on a pale wooden table by a window. Thin curls of steam rise from the coffee and drift to the left, while a patch of sunlight slides slowly across the table. The mug, the lettering and the camera never move. The last frame returns to the first, so the loop is seamless. Soft warm morning light, clean minimal styling. No other text.

Set to 1024 × 1024, 8 frames at 200 ms each, medium quality. Both came back at 960 × 960. Download the original GIFs: Flare, Sunburst.

Made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF and Sunburst GIF on November 8, 2026. Shown as an animated WebP so the page loads fast; nothing else touched.

Frames and speed

You set the frames and the speed

A GIF from GPT Image 2.6 has 2 to 16 frames, and each one shows for 20 to 2,000 milliseconds. Here is one bouncing ball at three settings, so you can see what the numbers do.

A red ball bouncing on a white floor, 4 frames, 300 ms each, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF
4 frames, 300 ms eachOnly room for the fall, so the loop jumps back to the top
A red ball bouncing on a white floor, 8 frames, 120 ms each, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF
8 frames, 120 ms eachThe full bounce, at the default frame count
A red ball bouncing on a white floor, 16 frames, 60 ms each, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF
16 frames, 60 ms eachThe smoothest bounce, but it came back at 720 × 720
The prompt on all three

A red rubber ball drops onto a plain white floor, squashes slightly, and bounces back up to exactly where it started, so the loop is seamless. Its soft grey shadow grows as the ball falls and shrinks as it rises. Side view against a light grey wall. The camera never moves. No text.

Made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF on November 8, 2026. Shown as an animated WebP so the page loads fast; nothing else touched.

  • Close the loop in words. There is no loop switch. Say the motion ends where it started, and the first and last frames will match.
  • Say whether the camera moves. A fixed camera keeps the loop from jumping when it restarts.
  • More frames, smaller GIF. Every frame shares one pixel budget, so 8 frames at 1024 came back at 960 × 960 and 16 frames at 720 × 720.
  • Give the motion room. 4 frames only fit the ball's fall, not its bounce back. Use 8 or more for a motion that has to return.
Made with GPT Image 2.6

Three GIFs you can post today

An animated sale banner, a reaction sticker and a product spin. Open a prompt, then swap in your own words and colors.

An animated coral web banner where the white letters 48-HOUR SALE pop in one at a time and a sparkle flashes at the end, made with GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst GIF Animated banner

Letters that pop in one by one, then a sparkle.

1008 × 672, 12 frames, 150 ms · Sunburst GIF

The prompt

An animated web banner. Bold white capital letters "48-HOUR SALE" on a flat coral background. The letters pop in one at a time from left to right, hold for a moment, then a small white sparkle flashes beside the final E. The loop starts again from the empty coral background. Flat graphic style. No other text.

Set to 1536 × 1024. Download the original GIF

Made with GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst GIF on November 8, 2026. Shown as an animated WebP so the page loads fast; nothing else touched.

A cartoon avocado sticker with a white outline waving and winking on a white background, made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF Reaction sticker

A cartoon that waves, winks and returns to its pose.

960 × 960, 8 frames, 150 ms · Flare GIF

The prompt

A chunky cartoon sticker of a smiling avocado half with a thick white outline, on a plain white background. It waves one small arm, then winks, then returns to its starting pose so the loop is seamless. Flat bright colors, thick dark outlines. No text.

Set to 1024 × 1024. Download the original GIF

Made with GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF on November 8, 2026. Shown as an animated WebP so the page loads fast; nothing else touched.

A white sneaker with a gum sole turning a full circle on a pink turntable against a blue wall, made with GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst GIF Product spin

A full turn on a turntable, ending where it began.

608 × 816, 16 frames, 100 ms · Sunburst GIF

The prompt

A white sneaker with a gum sole turns a full 360 degrees on a pastel pink turntable against a pastel blue wall, ending exactly where it started so the loop is seamless. The camera never moves. Clean studio product shot, soft even light, a gentle shadow. No text.

Set to 768 × 1024. Download the original GIF

Made with GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst GIF on November 8, 2026. Shown as an animated WebP so the page loads fast; nothing else touched.

Still images

Same prompt, 2.5 and 2.6

This is the NOCTURNE perfume prompt from our GPT Image 2.5 page, run again on 2.6 Sunburst with nothing changed. OpenAI says 2.6 is about 50% faster and holds detail better from one edit to the next.

2.6 shows the beam of light passing through the amber liquid, which the prompt asked for and 2.5 left out, and it frames the bottle closer. It came back in under 40 seconds.

The prompt on both

Luxury fragrance ad photograph. A faceted smoked-glass perfume bottle with a heavy brushed-brass cap stands on a slab of wet black marble. The word NOCTURNE is etched into the glass in thin, widely spaced capitals, and the liquid inside glows deep amber where a single beam of light passes through it. One white moth orchid lies beside the base, and a few drops of water bead on the marble. Low-key studio lighting: a narrow rim light from behind, soft fill from the left, deep shadows, a faint reflection of the bottle in the stone. Shot on a 100mm macro lens, shallow depth of field, rich blacks, warm highlights. No other text.

1536 × 1024, medium quality. The 2.5 image is the one from our GPT Image 2.5 page.

Made with GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst on November 8, 2026. Nothing retouched.

The NOCTURNE perfume bottle made with GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst The same NOCTURNE perfume prompt made with GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst

Flare or Sunburst?

Flare

About 30 seconds for our 8-frame GIF

OpenAI's smaller model, for when speed matters most. Reach for it for drafts, quick variations and GIFs you will try a few times before you keep one.

Sunburst

Under 50 seconds for the same GIF, under 40 for a still

OpenAI's base model, for more detail and precise edits. Reach for it when lettering, a product or a face has to come out right.

Both make stills up to 4K from up to 5 reference images, both make GIFs up to 1920 × 1080, and both take every quality setting from low to max. We'd draft on Flare and finish on Sunburst, but that's your call.

Try Flare and Sunburst
Fine print

Where it still slips

GIFs start from text

On Predis.ai, the GIF versions don't take reference images. For a GIF of your own product, describe it closely, or make a still first and match it in words.

16 frames at most

A GIF is short by design. For anything longer or with sound, use a video model such as MiniMax H3.

No loop switch

Whether the last frame meets the first depends on the prompt. Say the motion ends where it started.

Text can still go wrong

OpenAI's guide says text may still struggle with placement and clarity. Keep words short, and check every frame of a GIF before you post.

GIFs come back smaller than you ask

Every frame shares one pixel budget. Our 12-frame banner set to 1536 × 1024 came back at 1008 × 672. Use fewer frames when size matters.

Motion is checked more strictly

OpenAI's system card says GIFs block some content more broadly than stills. Keep characters invented and wording plain.

GPT Image 2.6 questions

What is GPT Image 2.6?

It's OpenAI's image model released on November 4, 2026, the one behind ChatGPT Images 2.6. It comes in two versions, Flare and Sunburst, and it can make animated GIFs as well as still images.

Yes. On Predis.ai, pick GPT Image 2.6 Flare GIF or Sunburst GIF, describe the motion, and set the number of frames (2 to 16) and how long each one shows (20 to 2,000 milliseconds). The default is 8 frames at 200 milliseconds each.

Tell it the motion ends where it started, for example "returns to its starting pose so the loop is seamless", and say whether the camera moves. There is no loop switch, so the prompt does that work.

OpenAI describes Flare as the smaller model for when speed matters most, and Sunburst as the base model for more detail and precise edits. Both take the same prompts, sizes and quality settings on Predis.ai, and both make GIFs.

OpenAI says both versions are about 50% faster, and that Sunburst keeps details more consistent from one edit to the next. 2.6 also adds animated GIFs. GPT Image 2.5 is still in the Model Studio if a workflow depends on it.

For still images, yes: add up to 5 reference images and say what to keep and what to change. The GIF versions start from a text prompt only on Predis.ai.

Still images go from 1024 × 768 up to 3840 × 2160 (4K), in landscape, portrait and square. GIFs can be set up to 1920 × 1080, but every frame shares one pixel budget, so they come back smaller: our 8-frame GIFs set to 1024 × 1024 came back at 960 × 960, and a 16-frame one at 720 × 720.

Yes. OpenAI's system card says images carry C2PA metadata and an invisible SynthID watermark from Google DeepMind, and OpenAI offers a public tool to check them.

Make your first GIF

Describe one small motion and let it loop.

Make a GIF with GPT Image 2.6
Make a GIF with GPT Image 2.6

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