DALL-E 3 shut down on May 12, 2026. The best alternatives in our library are ChatGPT, Midjourney, Leonardo AI and Nano Banana (Gemini Image).
OpenAI shut down DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 on May 12, 2026. Image generation in ChatGPT now runs on OpenAI's GPT Image models.
Sources: community.openai.com
OpenAI's flagship conversational AI.
AI image generation tool known for high-quality, artistic outputs.
A full creative suite for image generation, featuring a wide range of fine-tuned models, an AI canvas for editing, and 3D texture generation.
Google's Gemini image generation and editing models.
The leading open-source image generation model, enabling anyone to run powerful AI image generation locally or on their own servers.
Blockade Labs offers Skybox AI, an innovative tool for generating immersive 360-degree skyboxes and environments using artificial intelligence.
Black Forest Labs' family of image and video models, sold through a pay-per-image API with some models also available as downloadable open weights.
Each tool shows the month we last checked it against the official site. See every change in the AI Tools Changelog, or the archived DALL-E 3 page.