Adobe Firefly vs GPT Image (OpenAI)

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

Adobe Firefly Adobe's commercially-safe AI studio for image, video and audio Visit GPT Image (OpenAI) OpenAI's image model — DALL-E's successor in ChatGPT and the API Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.8 / 10 7.9 / 10
Capability 7 8
Value for money 7 7
Ease of use 9 9
ASEAN readiness 7 6
API quality 7 8
Pricing Subscription Paid
Free tier 25 generative credits per month via firefly.adobe.com Limited access via ChatGPT free tier
Paid from Standard $9.99/mo (2,000 credits); Pro $19.99/mo (4,000 credits); higher tiers to $139.91/mo $20/month (ChatGPT Plus)
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users ~41M Creative Cloud subscribers; Firefly used to generate 22B+ assets by April 2025 100m+ ChatGPT users with access
Founded 2023 2023
Maker Adobe Inc. OpenAI
Verdict

Firefly has grown from a cautious image generator into Adobe's whole AI studio: Image Model 5, video and audio generation, and partner models from Google, OpenAI, Runway and Black Forest Labs, all inside one credit syste...

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...

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