Here’s a roundup of the most popular AI-powered image-generation tools—both hosted services and open-source models—you can try for creating pictures:

1. OpenAI DALL·E
• DALL·E 2 / DALL·E 3 via OpenAI API or ChatGPT Plus/Enterprise
• Supports text-to-image and inpainting

2. Bing Image Creator
• Powered by DALL·E under the hood
• Free with a Microsoft account, integrated into Edge

3. Midjourney
• Discord-based client, subscription tiers
• Known for painterly, stylized outputs

4. Stable Diffusion (Stability AI)
• Open-source checkpoints (v1.5, v2.1, SDXL)
• Run locally (Automatic1111, InvokeAI, DiffusionBee, ComfyUI, etc.)

5. DreamStudio
• Official web UI for Stable Diffusion by Stability AI
• Pay-as-you-go credits system

6. Google Imagen
• State-of-the-art text-to-image (not publicly released)
• Research demos only

7. Craiyon (formerly DALL·E mini)
• Free, browser-based, lower-res / fun-style outputs

8. Adobe Firefly
• Web and Creative Cloud integration
• Commercial focus, safe-content filters

9. Runway Gen-2
• Text-to-video and image generation in one platform
• Subscription-based, easy web UI

10. Leonardo.Ai
• Community marketplace & fine-tunable models
• Subscription tiers

11. NightCafe Studio
• Multiple engine options (Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, CLIP-guided)
• Credit-based system, free tier

12. Dream by WOMBO
• Mobile app & web, very beginner-friendly
• Styles presets, subscription for high-res

13. DeepAI Text to Image
• Simple API, free tier with rate limits

14. Artbreeder
• “Genetic” blending of images via GANs
• Focus on faces, landscapes, anime

15. Hypnogram.ai
• Fast text-to-image via Stable Diffusion backend
• Free tier, paid upgrades

16. Fotor AI Image Generator
• Web-based, business templates included

17. PicsArt AI Image Generator
• Mobile-first app with community feed

18. Lensa AI
• Primarily portrait stylization, “Magic Avatars”

19. DeepDream Generator
• Google’s original dream-style morphing

20. Clipdrop’s Stable Diffusion WebUI
• Fast browser access, mobile support

21. Automatic1111 Web UI
• Local/remote self-hosted GUI for Stable Diffusion
• Huge plugin ecosystem

22. InvokeAI
• Lightweight, self-hosted SD interface with CLI & web UI

23. DiffusionBee
• macOS desktop app for Stable Diffusion out-of-the-box

24. ComfyUI
• Node-based workflow builder for custom pipelines

25. Hugging Face Spaces
• Tons of community-hosted text-to-image apps (SD, VQGAN+CLIP, etc.)

26. Kakao Brain–HyperCLOVA Vision (South Korea)
• Research/demo model

27. Tencent’s Hunyuan
• Research focus, limited public demos

28. Baidu Ernie-ViLG (China)
• Text-to-image demo, limited access

29. Pixray
• CLI/Wep UI, combines CLIP with various samplers

30. VQGAN+CLIP notebooks (Colab)
• Open-source Google Colab implementations

Each of these platforms or models has its own strengths, pricing/freemium model, and ideal use cases—from quick mobile sketches (Dream by WOMBO, PicsArt) to fully self-hosted, highly customizable pipelines (Stable Diffusion + Auto1111, ComfyUI). Feel free to pick one (or more!) based on your technical comfort, budget, and desired output style.

command: !ask is powered by witness @justyy and his contributions are: [https://steemyy.com](https://steemyy.com) *[More commands](https://steemyy.com/bots.php) are coming!*. !ask is currently based on Grok LLM and ChatGPT. (default=o4-mini, prefix question with chatgpt or grok if you like, e.g. !ask grok Your Question)