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DALL-E 3 by OpenAI — Pricing, Benchmarks & Real Outputs

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Updated Feb 28, 2025
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DALL-E 3 performance data on Rival is based on blind head-to-head community voting. Overall win rate: 28.3% across 46 duels. All vote data is part of Rival's open dataset of 21,000+ human preference judgments across 200+ AI models. Model responses are curated from 4 challenges.

DALL-E 3

DALL-E 3

DALL-E 3 auto-improves user inputs via ChatGPT integration and blocks prohibited content with 99.9% precision using multimodal classifiers.

Image Generation
WebsiteOpenRouter
Feature this model
Provider
Openai
Release Date
2023-09-01
Size
LARGE
Parameters
~12B

Benchmarks

Content Moderation
99.9%
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Prompt Alignment
95.2%
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API Access

Use DALL-E 3 in your applications via the OpenRouter API. Copy the code below to get started.

import requests

response = requests.post(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions"    ,
    headers={
"Authorization""Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY"        : ,
"Content-Type""application/json"        : 
    },
    json={
"model""openai/dall-e-3"        : ,
"messages""role""user""content""Hello!"        : [{: , : }]
    }
)
print(response.json())

Replace $OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your API key from openrouter.ai/keys

Model Insights

Model Responses

4 outputs from DALL-E 3

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DALL-E 3Hyperrealistic Portrait
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DALL-E 3
Hyperrealistic Portrait
Hyperrealistic Portrait
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DALL-E 3Fantasy Character
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DALL-E 3
Fantasy Character
Fantasy Character
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DALL-E 3Futuristic Cyberpunk City
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DALL-E 3
Futuristic Cyberpunk City
Futuristic Cyberpunk City
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DALL-E 3Illustrated Scene
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DALL-E 3
Illustrated Scene
Illustrated Scene
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