Imagen 4 shut down vs GPT Image 2
Imagen 4 is shut down. It is not a live pick against GPT Image 2. Use Nano Banana 2 for Google stills. Use GPT Image 2 when instructions have to stick.
Every guide, comparison and workflow we’ve published on Imagen 4.
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Imagen 4 is shut down. It is not a live pick against GPT Image 2. Use Nano Banana 2 for Google stills. Use GPT Image 2 when instructions have to stick.
Google shut Imagen 4. For photoreal product stills use Flux 2 Max at 6 credits. Google stills go to Nano Banana 2.
imagine-heart-1-5 is a text-to-image row at 4 credits and 4K — the same credit figure as Imagen 4, a different provider page, not a video family.
Ideogram V4 (5 credits) letters the mark. Imagen 4 is retired on Versely. Nano Banana 2 (4 credits) edits an approved still. Overlay keeps type editable.
Imagen locks the civic fence you installed, then LTX I2V. Overlay hours. Generated handlers are extras. A pet-brand film is a different /for.
Imagen locks the cabin, then I2V. A canvas tent at dusk is a different lodging SKU you skipped.
Google shut down Veo 2.0 and 3.0 on June 30 and retired Imagen 4.0 from the Gemini API on August 17. What's replacing them, and what's still live.
Deep enterprise comparison of Google Imagen 4, OpenAI GPT Image (DALL-E 4) and Flux 2 Pro across API SLAs, SynthID watermarking, content moderation, pricing per 1000 images, commercial rights and agency workflows in 2026.