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	DALL-E 3 B	Devin A	Perplexity S	Ideogram S
Tagline	OpenAI's image model. Built into ChatGPT Plus.	Cognition Labs' autonomous coding engineer.	AI search done right. Cited answers, not chat theater.	The one that actually gets text in images right.
Category	image	agents	research	image
Pricing	Included with ChatGPT Plus $20/mo	$500/mo	Free + $20/mo Pro	Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo
Best for	ChatGPT Plus users who want images without paying extra.	Engineering teams offloading tickets. Ops/platform work.	Replacing Google for any question where you want a cited answer in seconds.	Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks.
Strengths	Excellent prompt understanding Built into ChatGPT — no extra subscription Good at composition + concepts	Works like an engineer — takes Slack tasks, opens PRs Handles multi-hour engineering work Reports back with what it did	Sources every claim Fast, current answers Pro Search runs multi-step research Spaces for persistent context	Best text rendering in the game Strong free tier Good for logos, posters, thumbnails
Weaknesses	Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney + Ideogram Text rendering worse than Ideogram No fine control	Expensive Best for well-scoped tasks Not for solo hobbyists	Not a general chatbot Answers can be shallow on complex topics	Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney Less style variety
Kai's verdict	B-tier standalone, A-tier value if you already pay ChatGPT. Don't pay for it separately.	A-tier for the right use case. Not for solo devs. If you manage engineers, try one license.	S-tier for search. I use it before Google now. If you're still Googling everything, try this for a week.	S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art.
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