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OpenAI · image model · Released Nov 6, 2023

DALL·E 3

DALL·E 3 is an image model from OpenAI, released Nov 6, 2023. It handles text to image.

  • Image model
  • Proprietary
  • Text to image
Arena score
967#79 of 82 · text to image
Starting price
—Not published
Largest size
—Not published
References
—Text prompts only
Quality & price

How it rates and what it costs

Text to image arena
967 ±4#79 of 82 · 238,731 votes

Arena scores come from blind, side-by-side human votes on the same prompts (higher is better; ± is the 95% range). Boards updated Oct 26, 2026.

Specifications

The details

Lab
OpenAI
Type
Image model
Released
Nov 6, 2023
Inputs
Text prompts
Output
Images
Can do
Text to image
Weights
Proprietary
Availability
1 API host
Same lab

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Questions

About DALL·E 3

How good is DALL·E 3?

In blind side-by-side votes, DALL·E 3 scores 967 for text to image (#79 of 82). Higher is better; scores within about 8 points of each other are effectively tied.

Who makes DALL·E 3?

DALL·E 3 is an image model from OpenAI, released Nov 6, 2023.

What can DALL·E 3 do?

DALL·E 3 accepts text prompts and produces images. In practice: text to image.

Is DALL·E 3 open source?

No. DALL·E 3 is proprietary; you use it through an API or partner apps.

Where can I use DALL·E 3?

It is listed by 1 API host we track.

What are the alternatives to DALL·E 3?

The closest image models from other labs, by release date, are Stable Diffusion XL (Stability AI, Jul 9, 2023), Recraft V2 (Recraft, Mar 13, 2024), Ideogram (Ideogram, Apr 3, 2024) and FLUX.1 [dev] (Black Forest Labs, Aug 1, 2024).