DALL-E 3

DALL·E 3 is a text-to-image generation model developed by OpenAI, announced in September 2023 and released in ChatGPT (for Plus and Enterprise users) in October 2023, and via the API in early November 2023. Compared with DALL·E 2 it understands nuance and detail far better and follows complex prompts more accurately.

The model is natively integrated with ChatGPT — the assistant helps expand and refine the prompts passed to the generator. DALL·E 3 also markedly improved the rendering of text within images relative to earlier generations.

It takes a natural-language description as input and produces an image as output. Via the API it supports 1024×1024, 1024×1536 and 1536×1024 resolutions and two quality levels: standard and HD. Per-image pricing ranges from USD 0.04 (standard 1024×1024) to USD 0.12 (HD, rectangular formats).

DALL·E 3 is available through the OpenAI API, ChatGPT and Microsoft (Bing Image Creator / Copilot, Azure). Since February 2024 generated images include C2PA-standard metadata; the model applies safety filters (including blocking the style of living artists). In March 2025 DALL·E 3 was replaced in ChatGPT by GPT Image’s native image generation — it is now a previous-generation model.