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	DALL-E 3 B	Ideogram S	Cursor S	Qwen A
Tagline	OpenAI's image model. Built into ChatGPT Plus.	The one that actually gets text in images right.	VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work.	Alibaba's open chat model. Multilingual + agentic.
Category	Image	Image	Coding	Chatbots
Pricing	Included with ChatGPT Plus $20/mo	Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo	Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business	Free web + API
Best for	ChatGPT Plus users who want images without paying extra.	Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks.	Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code.	Vietnamese/Chinese content, SEA multilingual use, developers wanting open-weight tool-use.
Strengths	Excellent prompt understanding Built into ChatGPT — no extra subscription Good at composition + concepts	Best text rendering in the game Strong free tier Good for logos, posters, thumbnails	Tab completion feels like mind-reading Composer for multi-file edits Runs Claude, GPT, Gemini — you pick	Excellent Chinese + Vietnamese + SEA languages Strong at tool-use + agentic workflows Open weights (Qwen2.5, Qwen3)
Weaknesses	Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney + Ideogram Text rendering worse than Ideogram No fine control	Aesthetic ceiling below Midjourney Less style variety	Can feel overwhelming for non-coders Expensive at scale	English quality behind Claude/GPT Less well-known outside Asia
Kai's verdict	B-tier standalone, A-tier value if you already pay ChatGPT. Don't pay for it separately.	S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art.	S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day.	A-tier. The best open model for Vietnamese + Chinese. Don't sleep on it if you work in SEA.
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