DALL-E 3 (OpenAI)

DALL-E 3 is the most accessible entry point into AI image generation for users already subscribed to ChatGPT Plus — no separate billing, no separate interface, and the conversational prompt iteration is genuinely better than competitors' command-line-style prompting. Output quality is strong for photorealistic and illustrative work; the aesthetic runs cleaner and more polished than Midjourney's artistic style, which suits commercial use cases.