DALL-E — AI Tool Review, Features & Pricing

DALL-E: OpenAI's legacy image generation suite. DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 were retired from the OpenAI API on May 12, 2026, fully replaced by GPT Image 2 — which delivers ~99% character-level text-rendering accuracy and up to 4K output. This page is kept for reference; see the GPT Image 2 entry for OpenAI's current image model.

About DALL-E

OpenAI's legacy image generation suite. DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 were retired from the OpenAI API on May 12, 2026, fully replaced by GPT Image 2 — which delivers ~99% character-level text-rendering accuracy and up to 4K output. This page is kept for reference; see the GPT Image 2 entry for OpenAI's current image model.

It belongs to the image category (subcategory: text-to-image) within the AI Workflows tool directory.

DALL-E offers a freemium model with a free tier and paid upgrades.

Pricing & Plans

  • Pricing model: Freemium
  • Plan details: Included in ChatGPT (limited daily generations). GPT Image API: ~$0.02-$0.17/image depending on quality. DALL-E 3 API: ~$0.04/image.

Available Models in DALL-E

  • GPT Image 2 (successor)
  • DALL-E 3 (retired)
  • DALL-E 2 (retired)

Key Capabilities

  • text-to-image
  • prompt-adherence
  • inpainting
  • text-rendering

Tags & Keywords

image, text-rendering, gpt-image, legacy, retired, api

How to access DALL-E

Visit the official DALL-E website: https://openai.com/dall-e-3.

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