DALL-E 3

Released
2023-10-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-09
Status
Researched 184d ago
DeprecatedProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodal

DALL-E 3 is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.

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Specifications
Family
DALL-E
Released
2023-10-01
Architecture
Diffusion
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Training
Pretrained
Created by
OpenAI

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About

DALL-E 3 is OpenAI's third-generation image generation model, released October 2023 and integrated into ChatGPT Plus. Significantly improved prompt adherence over DALL-E 2 through ChatGPT-based instruction refinement. Supported 1024×1024, 1024×1792, and 1792×1024 output sizes, with natural language quality controls (standard/HD). Deprecated with OpenAI API shutdown scheduled for May 12, 2026 in favor of the gpt-image series.

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Capabilities

VisionMultimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

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Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena
967text_to_image overall 2026-10-26Observed 2026-10-27
Configuration: DALL-E 3
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text to image leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-26 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, latest split). Board entry 'DALL-E 3': rank 79 of 82, Arena Score 967.5 (95% CI 963.8-971.2), 238731 votes. LLM Reference model is lifecycle-deprecated; score kept as historical. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

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