Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst openai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst | Qwen3.6 Plus alibaba/qwen3.6-plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba |
| Family | ||
| Modality | image | text |
| Context window | — | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | — | — |
| Released | 2026-09-10 | 2026-08-10 |
| Input price | $0.030 /img | $0.500 /1M |
| Output price | — | $3.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | — | yes |
| Streaming | — | yes |
| Vision | — | — |
| JSON mode | — | yes |
| Reasoning | — | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
OpenAI's most capable image generation and editing model. It accepts text and image inputs and produces images with low, medium, high, xhigh, max, and auto quality settings.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Qwen3.6 Plus — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3.6-plus",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)