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dall E 2
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CLOSEDHOSTEDAPIPAID
RANKED #24 OF 75 IMAGES · OVERALL #109 OF 6,552 · VIBE SCORE 6.2 · 539 VOICES
X /dall E 2 available through cloud APIs.
HAPPY8.7
103 mentions
SAD6.3
78 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 15 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Standard hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
dall E 2 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 LabsSuperior image quality and prompt following for open general text to image tasks.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE12.1k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.1
Stable Diffusion 3.5Stability AIGreat multi-style versatility and prompt adherence on consumer hardware.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💸 COST EFFICIENT🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE414 VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.4Flux DevBlack Forest LabsRuns high quality Flux locally on lower VRAM consumer GPUs with GGUF quantization.🪶 RUNS ON LESS🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE💸 COST EFFICIENT931 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with dall E 2 right now.
421 POSTS · 118 COMMENTS · DEV FORUMS · REDDIT · X · GITHUB · DEV.TO · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (1 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceA SORE SPOT
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LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for dall E 2.
Midjourney
Ideogram> SOURCES (12)
- HACKER NEWS · 2022-04-08 · 848 UPVOTESDall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios
- REDDIT · 2022-07-25 · 658 UPVOTESDall-e 2 vs Stable Diffusion
Dall-e 2 vs Stable Diffusion
- REDDIT · 2022-06-22 · 565 UPVOTESOpenAI lifts Dall-E 2 restrictions on realistic faces
OpenAI lifts Dall-E 2 restrictions on realistic faces
- REDDIT · 2022-07-26 · 532 UPVOTESThis is not a real photo. The DALL·E 2 made this.
This is not a real photo. The DALL·E 2 made this.
- REDDIT · 2025-05-24 · 413 UPVOTESI am fucking done with ComfyUI and sincerely wish it wasn't the absolute standard for local generation
I am fucking done with ComfyUI and sincerely wish it wasn't the absolute standard for local generation
- REDDIT · 2022-04-09 · 385 UPVOTESDALL-E 2 "A stunning photograph of a Pikachu wearing a cape, 8K HD, incredibly detailed"
DALL-E 2 "A stunning photograph of a Pikachu wearing a cape, 8K HD, incredibly detailed"
- REDDIT · 2022-07-22 · 295 UPVOTESStable Diffusion (Free Dall-e 2 competitor) is inviting testers!
Stable Diffusion (Free Dall-e 2 competitor) is inviting testers!
- REDDIT · 2022-04-06 · 285 UPVOTESSome samples from DALL·E 2
Some samples from DALL·E 2
- REDDIT · 2022-07-28 · 201 UPVOTESThe REAL DALL-E 2 vs Stable Diffusion
The REAL DALL-E 2 vs Stable Diffusion
- REDDIT · 2023-05-06 · 181 UPVOTESShould Hollywood writers be concerned about AIs taking their jobs?
Should Hollywood writers be concerned about AIs taking their jobs?
- REDDIT · 2022-04-24 · 179 UPVOTESWe are VERY close to proto-AGI. In fact, it may be a matter of who first takes the expensive plunge of training the damn thing
We are VERY close to proto-AGI. In fact, it may be a matter of who first takes the expensive plunge of training the damn thing
- REDDIT · 2022-04-06 · 163 UPVOTESDALL·E 2 releases
DALL·E 2 releases