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Last updated: January 2026
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| Pricing Model | Free | Freemium |
| Starting Price | Free | Free tier |
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OPEN SOURCE Self-Hosted (Free)$0 (open source)
Cloud GPU (est. cost)~$0.50–2/hour
Stability AI APIPay-per-use (credits)
Prices verified February 2026. Open-source models free to download. Hardware requirement: 8GB+ VRAM GPU recommended. Community platforms (Civitai, Hugging Face) offer free hosted inference. |
Free (via ChatGPT)$0/month
POPULAR ChatGPT Plus$20/month
API (Pay-per-image)$0.04–0.12/image
Prices verified February 2026. DALL-E 2 available at lower cost ($0.016-0.02/image). Newer GPT Image models offer better quality at various price points. |
| Category | Image Generation | Image Generation |
| Description | Open-source AI image generation | OpenAI's powerful image generation model |
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| Get Started | Try Stable Diffusion | Try DALL-E 3 |