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Dalle Mini
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by OpenAI
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALSMALLCREATIVE
RANKED #79 OF 94 IMAGES · OVERALL #345 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.4 · 33 VOICES
dalle-mini on Hugging Face (text to image). 562 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY8.3
5 mentions
SAD6.7
5 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 4 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Dalle Mini once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
400M parameters for DALL-E Mini (approx. 2 GB fp16) and 2.6B parameters for DALL-E Mega (approx. 5.5 GB fp16)
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB
6 GB VRAM
~$110 USEDFP16 DALL-E Mini, ~12 s/image (or single image ~8s)
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USEDFP16 DALL-E Mega full precision batches, ~3.5 s/image
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDFP16 / FP32 DALL-E Mega multi-image parallel generation, ~1 s/image
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN DALLE MINI?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Dalle Mini takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~12 S★★★★★ | ~4 S★★★★★ | ~1 S★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Dalle Mini yet to call it. We found 33 posts but people did not say much either way.
11 POSTS · 22 COMMENTS · REDDIT · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with images models like this one.
V1.1> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2022-08-14 · 33 UPVOTESTwitter artists are kinda funny looking at it
Twitter artists are kinda funny looking at it
- REDDIT · 2022-08-06 · 30 UPVOTESI introduced Dalle mini to a friend with schizophrenia.
I introduced Dalle mini to a friend with schizophrenia.
- REDDIT · 2022-08-13 · 21 UPVOTESPopular dalle mini prompts put into stable diffusion
Popular dalle mini prompts put into stable diffusion
- REDDIT · 2022-06-12 · 11 UPVOTESI asked DALLE-Mini the meaning of life.
I asked DALLE-Mini the meaning of life.
- LEMMY · 2026-09-04 · 11 UPVOTESWhat's your overall opinion on generative AI?
What's your overall opinion on generative AI?
- REDDIT · 2022-06-17 · 10 UPVOTESComment in r/OpenAI
Comment in r/OpenAI
- REDDIT · 2022-07-12 · 9 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2022-06-17 · 5 UPVOTES[Question] Can someone please try this prompt on Dalle2: "a gorilla fights an Elephant"
[Question] Can someone please try this prompt on Dalle2: "a gorilla fights an Elephant"
- REDDIT · 2022-07-22 · 5 UPVOTESComment in r/OpenAI
Comment in r/OpenAI
- REDDIT · 2021-12-03 · 5 UPVOTESComment in r/OpenAI
Comment in r/OpenAI
- REDDIT · 2022-09-15 · 0 UPVOTESBuilding A Startup That Hosts Models (Stability, Midjourney, GPT-3, DALLE mini etc.) In One Place
Building A Startup That Hosts Models (Stability, Midjourney, GPT-3, DALLE mini etc.) In One Place
- REDDIT · 2022-09-22 · 0 UPVOTESIs there any info or reason why Stable Diffusion was not trained on Roswell like alien imagery?
Is there any info or reason why Stable Diffusion was not trained on Roswell like alien imagery?