Spent the last two weeks putting Midjourney, DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion, Ideogram, and Adobe Firefly through the same set of prompts. Same prompts, same categories, no cherry-picking.
Here's what I found:
Photorealism: Midjourney still wins here, but the gap is narrowing. DALL-E 3 surprised me on faces.
Text in images: Ideogram is miles ahead. If your use case involves text, use Ideogram. Full stop.
Style consistency: Stable Diffusion with a good fine-tuned model beats everything if you put in the setup time.
Ease of use: DALL-E 3 via ChatGPT is the most frictionless by far.
Commercial use / licensing: Adobe Firefly is the safest pick for professional work - trained only on licensed content.
My overall ranking for general use: Midjourney > DALL-E 3 > Ideogram > Firefly > SD (for non-technical users)
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