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DALL·E

Creating images from text

DALL·E is OpenAI's text-to-image image generation model family. OpenAI introduced DALL·E as a neural network that creates images from text captions; subsequent OpenAI pages identify DALL·E 2 as a newer system generating more realistic images and DALL·E 3 as improving over DALL·E 2.

Pricing

Official site · Jul 30, 2026, 1:08 PM
Per image
$0.04

Per-image API price for DALL·E 3 Standard quality at 1024x1024. Other explicitly stated DALL·E 3 prices vary by quality and size.

OpenAI’s official DALL·E 3 model documentation states image generation pricing is per image and explicitly lists Standard quality 1024x1024 at $0.04 per image. The same source lists other DALL·E 3 tiers: Standard 1024x1536/1536x1024 at $0.08, HD 1024x1024 at $0.08, and HD 1024x1536/1536x1024 at $0.12.

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Model Intelligence

Arena ranking
34
Benchmarkable
No
Model level
family

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