Bing Image Creator vs GPT Image (OpenAI) vs Microsoft Designer vs Nano Banana Pro
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Bing Image Creator
Microsoft's free DALL-E-powered image creator
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GPT Image (OpenAI)
OpenAI's image model — DALL-E's successor in ChatGPT and the API
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Microsoft Designer
Free DALL·E design app wired into Microsoft 365
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Nano Banana Pro
Google DeepMind's viral image generation and editing model, built on G...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.9 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 8.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Free | Paid | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Limited access via ChatGPT free tier | Free tier with daily AI-generation "boost" limits | Limited free image quota in the Gemini app; higher limits with Google AI Plus/Ultra subscriptions. |
| Paid from | — | $20/month (ChatGPT Plus) | Bundled: Microsoft 365 Premium $19.99/mo; 365 Copilot $30/user/mo | Usage-based via Gemini API / Vertex AI. |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 100m+ ChatGPT users with access | — | 200M+ image edits (weeks after launch) |
| Founded | 2023 | — | — | — |
| Maker | — | OpenAI | — | Google (Alphabet) |
| Verdict | Bing Image Creator, now folded into Microsoft Designer, offers free text-to-image generation powered by OpenAI's DALL-E models through a dead-simple prompt box, making it one of the most accessible ways to try AI image g... |
GPT Image 2 is OpenAI's current image model — DALL-E 2 and 3 were retired May 12, 2026 — and its headline win is text: multi-line copy and even CJK scripts render reliably, which no mainstream rival matches. It reasons b... |
A Canva-style app for people who don't think of themselves as designers. Describe a social post, invitation, or thumbnail and Designer builds it, with DALL·E 3 image generation, background removal, auto-crop, and a Resty... |
What this is for: Generating and editing high-fidelity images with strong prompt adherence, character consistency, and accurate in-image text, up to 4K on the Pro tier. Who this is for: Consumers using the Gemini app an... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.