Three production-grade product shots — packshot, lifestyle, and packaging with on-pack text — generated with the GPT Image 2 API on hiapi, each with the exact prompt, parameters, task ID, and cost.

Product imagery is the highest-volume, most repetitive image job most teams have: a clean packshot for every SKU, a lifestyle shot for the landing page, a packaging mockup for the pitch deck. It is also the job where a generation API pays off fastest, because the brief is concrete and you run it hundreds of times. This guide shows three production-grade product shots generated with the GPT Image 2 API on hiapi — each with the exact prompt, parameters, task ID, and cost — plus the one-call API pattern behind them.
GPT Image 2 is hiapi's default recommendation for product work because it follows a brief literally: named objects, surface materials, lighting direction, and on-pack text all land where you ask. At $0.03 per image it is cheap enough to fan out across a catalog.
Every image below is a single POST /v1/tasks call — create the task, poll (or take a callback), download the result. No fine-tuning, no reference images, no post.
curl -X POST https://api.hiapi.ai/v1/tasks \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HIAPI_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gpt-image-2",
"input": {
"prompt": "Professional e-commerce packshot of a matte-white ceramic pour-over dripper on a pure-white background, soft softbox lighting",
"aspect_ratio": "1:1"
}
}'
The only knobs that change the bill are resolution: $0.03 at 1K, $0.04 at 2K, $0.06 at 4K. Aspect ratio is free — pick 1:1 for catalog tiles, 4:3 or 16:9 for lifestyle, 3:4 or 9:16 for vertical.
The bread-and-butter catalog image — product centered on seamless white, soft shadow, no distractions. This is the one you generate per SKU.

Professional e-commerce packshot of a matte-white ceramic pour-over coffee
dripper on a seamless pure-white studio background, soft even softbox lighting,
subtle contact shadow, crisp focus, centered, high detail, catalog product
photography.
gpt-image-2 · aspect_ratio: 1:1 · Task ID: tk-hiapi-01KVQJ250WGS0V3CDQ14N8J86C · Cost: $0.03The same product, but staged — the image you put above the fold to sell a feeling, not just a SKU. Switch the aspect ratio to 4:3 and describe the scene and light.

Lifestyle product photo of the same matte-white ceramic pour-over coffee dripper
sitting on a light oak kitchen counter, morning window light from the left, a
blurred plant and a linen towel in the background, warm natural tones, shallow
depth of field, premium homeware editorial look.
gpt-image-2 · aspect_ratio: 4:3 · Task ID: tk-hiapi-01KVQJ4GPRM5WJ0QDYS3HPKQZD · Cost: $0.03The shot most generators fail: a product with legible printed text. GPT Image 2's strength is exactly this — it renders short headlines and labels cleanly, which is why it is the safer pick for packaging mockups, hang tags, and anything with a brand name on it.

A minimalist product packaging box for specialty coffee on a cream backdrop,
soft studio light. The kraft-paper box has a clean printed label with two crisp
lines of text: a large headline reading "AURORA ROAST" and a smaller subtitle
"Single Origin · 250g". Photoreal product photography, centered, legible text.
gpt-image-2 · aspect_ratio: 3:4 · Task ID: tk-hiapi-01KVQJ7MJNKT9XZPF5GVWG3KNC · Cost: $0.03Three shots, three single calls, $0.09 total. The pattern scales the same way at catalog volume:
callback object instead of polling each task.For a deeper e-commerce pipeline (batch variants, background swaps, model routing), see the GPT Image 2 e-commerce workflow. For more copy-paste prompts across use cases, see the GPT Image 2 prompt templates.
Ready to run your own products? Try a prompt on the GPT Image 2 model page, then move to the API with the one-call pattern above.
Key Takeaways