LLM Reference

DALL-E 2

Released
2022-04-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-09
Status
Researched 48d ago
DeprecatedProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalVision

DALL-E 2 is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.

Use it for

  • Teams maintaining an existing integration

Do not use it for

  • New production launches
  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
DALL-E
Released
2022-04-01
Architecture
Diffusion
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Training
Pretrained
Created by

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San Francisco, California, United States
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Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

DALL-E 2 is OpenAI's second-generation image generation model, released April 2022. Introduced inpainting (editing specific image regions) and outpainting (extending images beyond their borders). Supported resolutions up to 1024×1024. Trained on a refined CLIP-guided diffusion approach. Deprecated with OpenAI API shutdown scheduled for May 12, 2026.

DALL-E 2 is a proprietary model in the DALL-E family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. No headline benchmark score is tracked for DALL-E 2 yet.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.