Official API price calculator

Image APIs

Text-to-image, image editing, native image generation, and production image pipelines. Use this for product images, edits, thumbnails, ad creative, and native image APIs.

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Set expected usage; each row estimates monthly cost from official unit prices.

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Official price table - Images ranking order

7 official USD rows - checked 2026-06-14 - sorted by Images ranking.

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OpenAI

Official API

Image: $8 input / $2 cached / $30 output per 1M tokens

Token-billed image generation; use provider calculator for per-image estimates

Needs calculator

GlobalOpenAI API pricing

Checked 2026-06-14

Text input is priced separately on the OpenAI table.

Google

Official API

$0.134 per 1K/2K image; $0.24 per 4K image

Native image generation and editing

$139

Gemini API paid tierGemini API pricing

Checked 2026-06-14

Image input is set at 560 tokens, equivalent to $0.0011 per image.

xAI

Official API

$0.002 input image / $0.02 output image

1K and 2K standard image output

$20.80

xAI APIxAI API pricing

Checked 2026-06-14

Quality mode is higher: $0.05 to $0.07 output image.

Google

Official API

$0.04 per image

Imagen 4 Fast is $0.02 and Ultra is $0.06 per image

$41.60

Gemini API paid tierGemini API pricing

Checked 2026-06-14

Good calculator default because Google publishes a direct per-image price.

Runway

Official API

5 credits per 720p image; 1 credit = $0.01

1080p image is 8 credits

$52.00

Runway APIRunway API pricing

Checked 2026-06-14

Credit purchases may be subject to sales tax.

Z.AI

Official API

$0.015 per image

Image generation model

$15.60

Z.AI APIZ.AI pricing

Checked 2026-06-14

CogView-4 is listed at $0.01 per image on the same official page.

Stability AI

Official API

1 credit = $0.01; model credit cost shown on provider pricing page

Hosted Stability AI image generation

Needs calculator

Stability AI platformStability AI pricing

Checked 2026-06-14

Kept as source-verified credit pricing until the per-model credit table is parsed safely.