Image Generation
AI image generation and editing tools
AI image generation turns text prompts or reference images into artwork, photos, designs and illustrations in seconds. The field spans artistic models like Midjourney, integrated tools like Adobe Firefly, open models like FLUX, and design-focused platforms like Recraft with vector output and precise text rendering. Real-time tools like Krea add live canvas workflows. Key differences to compare: image quality and style range, text rendering accuracy, commercial licensing, editing and upscaling features, and API availability.
Task guides covering this category
Each entry below is an existing brief with its own budget and the conditions it still lists as unmet. A price that fits the budget is not a completed task.
T2 · Check Sora and DALL·E 3 generation access
The task: Spend US$20 a month on current channels to produce a new image and a new short video on September 23, 2026, and check each channel separately rather than treating the brand as one product.
Monthly budget · up to US$20
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DALL-E 3 - OpenAI API · Does not meet this task
Removed on May 12, 2026, so no current price applies.
Latest source row read 2026-10-15
T5 · Choose tools for editable SVG and transparent PNG
The task: Spend no more than US$20 with monthly billing on a Chinese-and-English logo for a commercial website, delivering an editable SVG and a transparent PNG. If the wording itself must stay editable text, verify text objects and fonts separately, because a requirement for live text is not part of this brief and outlined lettering is not disqualified on that basis.
Monthly budget · up to US$20
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Recraft Basic · Unconfirmed; not recommended yet
The current paid-plan documentation lists Basic at $12 billed monthly with 1,000 credits, or $120 prepaid annually ($10 monthly equivalent). The ISO currency, purchase market and this account’s final bill remain unconfirmed, so this is not a current US$15 budget pass; annual prepayment remains outside the brief.
Ideogram Plus · Unconfirmed; not recommended yet
The current Plus page shows $20 beside an annual equivalent of $15 a month with $180 billed yearly, and now lists 2, 400 priority credits a month. The annual amount is not monthly billing. The extracted page does not independently confirm the shopper’s currency, market or monthly checkout, so the display is not a verified US$20 purchase.
Adobe Firefly · Unconfirmed; not recommended yet
US Standard US$9.99 a month and Pro US$19.99 a month: both meet the price condition, verified as Monthly in the US Individuals page. Australian prices are not used here.
Latest source row read 2026-10-15
