I have always been a big fan of AI art.
\ I played with Wombo.AI when it first came out and even shared some of the pictures on my social media.
\ How far the world of digital art has come!
\ Today’s AI image generators are so advanced that it can be difficult to distinguish between reality and art.
\ I always use AI-generated art for my articles, and thus, I am a keen aficionado of AI art and how to get the best results for my work.
\ If you want to learn my secrets, read till the end.
\ I promise to teach you how to enhance your prompts so that you always get a fantastic image from the AI Image Generator.
\ But at the end of the article!
\ And I promise you, this will be a great read and a great guide for everyone who wants to produce top-quality digital art.
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Choice of AI Text-to-Image GeneratorsI have used the following AI image generators for this comparative article.
\ I rejected a few because the output quality was poor, so only the best made it to this list!
\ Comment below if you have used other image generators that are not covered in this article so that we can all benefit!
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\ You, the reader, can pick and choose which one is the best, in your opinion.
\ Because I have created 4 images from each generator, trying to cover a wide range of use cases.
\ But also make sure you have a good look at your budget!
\ However, I am glad to say that AI image generation is so competitive that everything in this article was done with the free plan for every tool!
\ I have also provided my personal review and the pricing for every AI tool below.
The Top Ten AI Text-to-Image Generator Tools 1. Ideogram\ \
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\ Ideogram offers a Free plan allowing up to 40 images daily with limited features. Paid tiers include Basic ($8/month) for 400 images, Plus ($20/month) for 1,000 images, and Pro ($48/month) for 12,000 fast images, all with additional features like private generation and image uploads
2. Bing Image Creator\
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\ Bing Image Creator is entirely free, requiring only a Microsoft account to access. Users start with 25 boosts for faster image generation, which replenishes weekly. For frequent users, 10 boots are provided every day. And since one boost provides 4 pictures, you always have enough. I still use this tool sometimes because of its high quality and zero cost. I used this extensively over the last year before switching to another tool.
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3. Leonardo.ai\
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\ Leonardo.ai offers a Free plan, allowing users to generate up to 150 images per day.
Paid options include:
API plans start at $9/month for 3,500 credits, scaling up based on usage needs.
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4. Meta.ai\
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\ Meta.ai Image Creation offers a Free Plan that allows users to generate images with limited features.
Paid options include:
Each tier provides varying levels of access and image generation speed.
5. Microsoft Designer Image Creator\
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\ Microsoft Designer Image Creator offers a free plan with basic features, allowing unlimited image creation. Users can also access boosts for faster generation; initially, each user gets 25 boosts, which replenish weekly. There are no paidtiers available, making it entirely free to use. As mentioned earlier, 10 boosts are provided every day.
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6. Flux Schnell\
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\ Flux Schnell provides a free plan for image generation, allowing users to create images at no cost.
Paid options operate on a credit system with one-time purchases:
Credits expire after 30 days, and commercial usage rights are included in paid plans but not in the free plan.
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7. Flux Dev\
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\ Flux Dev offers a free plan that allows users to generate images without cost.
Paid options include:
One-time purchase options like the Hobby Plan (500 credits) and Starter Plan (1,200 credits) are also available, with varying access and expiration terms.
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8. Midjourney Free\
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\ Midjourney offers four subscription tiers:
There is no free tier available, but all plans come with commercial usage rights and access to the Discord community
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9. Stable Diffusion 3\ \
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\ Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) is primarily accessible through a credit-based system for commercial use. Users can generate images at a cost of 1 credit per image, with credits priced at $0.01 each. This means generating an image costs approximately $0.08 for the ultra model.
\ For non-commercial use, SD3 is available for free, allowing users to explore its capabilities without financial commitment.
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10. StockLibrary.AI\ \
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\ Stocklibrary.ai offers four subscription tiers:
\ The Free Plan offers 5 images a month.
All paid plans offer full royalty licensing options.
\ Stocklibrary.ai is not very well known, but its image quality is incredible.
\ I just felt called to share some of the images in their gallery—because of the incredible quality they have achieved.
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\ These images do not look AI-generated, but they are.
\ I can see this startup replacing all the existing stock photo websites because their AI model-generated photos look better than real life!
\ And every picture above can be customized to suit the country/locality/culture of your choice.
\ This is the future of stock photography for blogs and diverse demographics.
\ Professional commercial content writers can now generate the images they want with text!
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As Promised: AI-Enhanced Prompts\ Suppose you had the following prompt to enhance for [AI-Image Generator]:
\ “A cosmic picture of the entire universe, with an emphasis on wonder and beauty, from a human Earth-centric viewpoint. An awesome, fantastic, awe-inspiring, beautiful, unbelievable picture.”
\ This prompt is already quite specific.
\ But ChatGPT or any other LLM can always make it better.
\ To demonstrate, see the results of the plain prompt in Microsoft Designer:
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This is great!
\ Now let’s enhance it:
\ Prompt to ChatGPT:
\ “You are a Microsoft Designer AI Generator expert. Create a prompt to make the following prompt far more effective for a Microsoft Designer image generation. Focus on beauty and wonder. The prompt is: “A cosmic picture of the entire universe, with an emphasis on wonder and beauty, from a human Earth-centric viewpoint. An awesome, fantastic, awe-inspiring, beautiful, unbelievable picture.”
\ Resulting Microsoft Designer Prompt:
\ "An awe-inspiring cosmic panorama of the universe, viewed from Earth's perspective. The scene captures the boundless beauty and wonder of the cosmos—glittering stars, swirling galaxies, and nebulae glowing in vivid, dreamlike colors. The Milky Way arcs majestically across the sky, while distant galaxies twinkle like jewels in the infinite expanse. The image conveys a profound sense of awe, with delicate hues of purple, blue, and pink blending into the dark void of space. The cosmic spectacle evokes both wonder and beauty, offering a breathtaking glimpse of the universe's grandeur."
\ Feeding it to Microsoft Designer:
This might seem like a minor improvement over the last prompt.
\ But when used correctly, AI-Enhanced Image Generator prompts can work wonders.
\ When possible, use the AI-Enhancement Tool on the site of the Image Generator itself.
\ I shifted from Bing Image Creator to Microsoft Designer because of the effectiveness of the AI-Enhancer on the Microsoft Designer Image Creation website.
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And That’s A Wrap!\ I hope you had fun seeing what the AI Image Generators can do.
\ I certainly did!
\ And that last startup’s library of images—available at the link below—just blew me away.
\ https://www.stocklibrary.ai/
\ We live in, I guess, the greatest time to be alive—ever.
\ The Internet has brought wonders into our lives.
\ I hope we will all take equal advantage of the ever-expanding vast possibilities available to us.
\ To shape our lives.
\ To shape our futures.
\ To even change the world—for the better.
\ May the wonder of life today never leave you.
\ May the joy of pure creativity never fail to enthrall you.
\ All the best—wherever and whatever you may be doing.
\ All the best!
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