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What it costs, what it replaces

A printed flyer and a product on a plain table, with a pencil sketch of the same layout beside them

ToolsSeptember 14, 2026

ChatGPT Images 2.5 adds flyer and product-photo templates, and it is on the free tier

OpenAI's September 8 image update is the first one aimed squarely at the person who makes the shop's own marketing. What is new, what it costs, and the two things to be careful about.

A balance scale with a small server rack on one side and a short stack of coins on the other, the coins side lower

ToolsSeptember 13, 2026

Self-hosting an AI model to cut costs is usually the wrong move for a small business

Open-weight models are free to download, and that fact hides the real bill. Here is the arithmetic with today's published prices: a rented GPU versus paying per word.