OpenAI DALL-E API
Generate high-quality images from text prompts
Paid Only
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🇺🇸 United States
DALL-E 3 is OpenAI’s flagship image generation model, integrated directly into the OpenAI API. It produces highly detailed, photorealistic and artistic images from text descriptions with exceptional prompt adherence — a major improvement over DALL-E 2. Pricing is per image based on quality and size ($0.040 per standard 1024×1024 image). Supports inpainting, outpainting, and image variations. Natively integrated with ChatGPT Plus, making it widely accessible. Best for developers building content creation tools, marketing platforms, and creative applications.
API Details
Auth Method
API Key
Pricing Model
Paid Only
Free Tier
No (included in $5 signup credit)
Rate Limit
7 images/min (Tier 1)
Format
REST / JSON
Versioning
dall-e-3, dall-e-2
SLA / Uptime
99.9%
Compliance
SOC 2, GDPR
Geographic Restrictions
Global
Last Verified
2026-02-20
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Frequently Asked Questions
DALL-E 3 pricing depends on quality and size. Standard quality at 1024u00d71024 costs $0.040 per image. HD quality at 1024u00d71024 costs $0.080 per image. Larger sizes (1792u00d71024 or 1024u00d71792) cost $0.080 (standard) or $0.120 (HD) per image. There is no subscription fee u2014 you pay per image generated.
DALL-E 3 is dramatically better than DALL-E 2 in prompt adherence, text rendering within images, and overall quality. DALL-E 3 can accurately include text in images u2014 a major weakness of DALL-E 2 and most other models. DALL-E 3 is also natively integrated into ChatGPT, making it the most widely used image generation model.
DALL-E 3 currently supports image generation only (text to image). For inpainting (editing specific areas of an image) you need to use DALL-E 2 via the /v1/images/edits endpoint. Midjourney and Stable Diffusion offer more advanced image editing workflows if that is a core requirement.
Yes. DALL-E 3 supports three sizes: 1024u00d71024 (square), 1792u00d71024 (landscape), and 1024u00d71792 (portrait). You specify the size parameter in your API request. If you need arbitrary aspect ratios or higher resolutions, consider Stability AI's API which offers more flexibility.