Adobe Firefly vs DALL-E 2
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Adobe Firefly
Generative AI for images and text effects with style prompts, reference guides and content credentials designed for commercial use across Creative Cloud surfaces.
Pricing Free / Included with Creative Cloud plans
Category image
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
DALL-E 2
OpenAI’s second generation image model now offered through the API with pay as you go pricing per image and fast generation for square or portrait outputs.
Pricing Pay as you go, From $0.016 per image
Category image
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
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Key Features
Adobe Firefly
- • Text to image generation with style guidance and aspect controls
- • Text effects that wrap typography with textures and materials
- • Generative expand and remove for fast scene edits
- • Style and structure references for consistent art direction
- • Content credentials to label AI-assisted outputs for trust
- • Creative Cloud integration with libraries and exports
DALL-E 2
- • Text to image generation via API endpoints
- • Inpainting and variations for quick edits
- • Fast square and portrait sizes for common uses
- • Lower per image cost than newer models
- • Good for thumbnails and concepts at volume
- • Clear content policy and safety guidance
Use Cases
Adobe Firefly
- → Concept art for campaigns mood boards and pitches quickly
- → Create hero visuals and backgrounds for landing pages
- → Design typography with material styles for headlines
- → Replace objects and extend canvases for layout options
- → Generate variants of product scenes for testing and social
- → Build storyboards and thumbnails before photo or 3D shoots
DALL-E 2
- → Generate concept art for features or campaigns
- → Create thumbnails and blog visuals at scale
- → Offer a prompt to image feature inside an app
- → Inpaint quick edits without a full editor
- → Produce mood boards for client ideation
- → Generate backgrounds for UI experiments
Perfect For
Adobe Firefly
designers marketers creative directors and teams that need fast concepting image variations and text effects with Creative Cloud handoff
DALL-E 2
product designers growth teams indie hackers educators agencies and developers who need cost effective prompt to image generation through the API
Capabilities
Adobe Firefly
Images and Text Effects Intermediate
Expand and Remove Intermediate
References and Libraries Intermediate
Content Credentials Basic
DALL-E 2
Intermediate Turn natural language into visuals quickly for ideation and simple assets with predictable per image pricing.
Intermediate Update regions or explore variants without rebuilding the entire concept from scratch.
Professional Embed image generation into products or internal tools with control over size cost and rate limits.
Basic Use size and quality matrices to forecast spend and scale generation responsibly for campaigns.
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