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DALL E 3
by OpenAI
CLOSEDHOSTEDCREATING PICTURESDIGITAL ARTGRAPHIC DESIGNVISUAL IDEAS
RANKED #29 OF 74 IMAGES · OVERALL #128 OF 6,608 · VIBE SCORE 6.1 · 1,810 VOICES
An image generator by OpenAI that turns text descriptions into visual art and designs.
HAPPY8.2
188 mentions
SAD6.8
133 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,770 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. OpenAI hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
DALL E 3 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.3
FluxBlack Forest LabsPick for unmatched photorealism, excellent text rendering, and offline privacy.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE12.0k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.1
Stable Diffusion 3.5Stability AIPick for highly customizable artistic styles and strong prompt adherence offline.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE413 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Community members feel DALL E 3 generates images quickly and provides good value for the money. However, users often run into errors and outages, unwanted prompt refusals, and occasional visual glitches.
1145 POSTS · 665 COMMENTS · BLUESKY · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · DEV FORUMS · X · GITHUB · DEV.TO · LEMMY · BLOG · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (8 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (5 mentions)
- Results can look off or glitchy (3 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
8 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- How results lookMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
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Three prompts to get ChatGPT to become an instant expert in anything.
- REDDIT · 2023-09-25 · 1313 UPVOTESTaking Dall-E 3 Requests Part 2, Featuring Some of My Favorite Results So Far
Taking Dall-E 3 Requests Part 2, Featuring Some of My Favorite Results So Far
- REDDIT · 2023-09-24 · 1082 UPVOTESTaking Dall-E 3 requests
Taking Dall-E 3 requests
- REDDIT · 2023-09-20 · 968 UPVOTESDALL-E 3 Got announced. If actually works like intended - following specific details seem very promising.
DALL-E 3 Got announced. If actually works like intended - following specific details seem very promising.
- REDDIT · 2023-12-05 · 967 UPVOTESMicrosoft's free Copilot is getting GPT-4 Turbo, Code Interpreter, the new DALL·E 3 model, and more
Microsoft's free Copilot is getting GPT-4 Turbo, Code Interpreter, the new DALL·E 3 model, and more
- REDDIT · 2025-12-16 · 814 UPVOTESBREAKING: OpenAI releases "GPT-Image-1.5" (ChatGPT Images) & It instantly takes the #1 Spot on LMArena, beating Google's Nano Banana Pro.
BREAKING: OpenAI releases "GPT-Image-1.5" (ChatGPT Images) & It instantly takes the #1 Spot on LMArena, beating Google's Nano Banana Pro.
- REDDIT · 2026-04-28 · 808 UPVOTESDall E 3 vs Image 2.0
Dall E 3 vs Image 2.0
- REDDIT · 2024-02-23 · 537 UPVOTESLet's compare Stable Diffusion 3 and Dall-e 3
Let's compare Stable Diffusion 3 and Dall-e 3
- REDDIT · 2023-09-29 · 534 UPVOTESMicrosoft is rolling out Dall-e 3 to everyone - 100% by 8PM PST
Microsoft is rolling out Dall-e 3 to everyone - 100% by 8PM PST
- REDDIT · 2023-11-30 · 472 UPVOTESCoca Cola is already using GPT 5 and Dall-E 3
Coca Cola is already using GPT 5 and Dall-E 3
- REDDIT · 2024-12-04 · 454 UPVOTESComparing DALL-E 3 and 4 other text-to-image models: cost, speed, and photo-realism quality
Comparing DALL-E 3 and 4 other text-to-image models: cost, speed, and photo-realism quality
- REDDIT · 2023-09-30 · 413 UPVOTESDall-e 3 is incredible!
Dall-e 3 is incredible!