I Use AI Images In My Work – Here Are My Top AI Image Generators In 2025.
From Adobe to Midjourney.

I have quite a good online presence. If you Google my name "Al Anany" you'll find me on Google in the first page of a lot of topics. Like for instance, interestingly, if you Google "Amazon in Switzerland," I will be from the top three articles you see. So part of what I do for a living is the almost-obsolete art of writing.
That's aside from my full-time job as a business consultant of my own agency. But in the writing aspect of what I do, I require AI images.
I understand there is a moral and ethical dilemma that's going on with AI images and artists at this stage, which I personally agree with. I agree that there should be a moral and ethical dilemma and that should be resolved in court.
But the reality of the market is AI images are absolutely everywhere, and it costs a lot of money for an average user to purchase a subscription from Shutterstock of a person who looks realistic compared to generating an AI image of a person who looks exactly the same. 99% of the world wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The pricing difference is just huge.
I use AI images like the one you see in this article to convey the message because it's impossible to find such images. It takes a lot of time to like - I wanted to showcase in this article that there are different AI image generators, hence the black and white half and half picture. This would usually take me an hour at least to find or to edit. I did it in a few seconds.
Top AI Image Generation Tools
Because of that, I started to look at the top AI image generators that I could use over the past few years. Now, I've used tools here and there, but there are a few that are my personal favorite that I would really recommend that you would use.
Let's start by my top AI image generator tool that I think has the best output out there in the market. When I say output, I mean image quality, creativity, and the models they are training on.
Midjourney
My top tool is Midjourney and it is the first and I mean, it is the best AI image generator out there.
Even compared to other competitors like OpenAI's DALL-E 3, Midjourney is far by the best, and it is not freely available. You would have to create a subscription in order to actually be able to access their platform.
The thing about AI image generator tools is that they can't really make a lot of money from you because they have to offer you AI image generation in bulk. For example, if you check out Midjourney's pricing plans, you'll find that the cheapest plan most probably can fit your needs.
The real trick is that you don't really need all those credits they’ll give you. So they charge you a premium because you think it’s a good deal. They used to have a free version, but now they don't. Most AI image generator tools focus on this sort of business model.
Stability
My second favorite AI image generator is Stability or Stable Diffusion. Now, I've tested this over and over again and I honestly believe Stability has a superior product when it comes to image generation than OpenAI.
OpenAI has DALL-E, which is also good and it's going to be my next option, but Stability just has this element of creativity and realistic images. It's somehow probably the models that they trained their images on. They result in better-looking pictures, but they're very close to DALL-E.
Dall-E
Moving on to DALL-E as my next top AI image generator, it's very, very good but it depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for images of real people out there like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, I'd go with Midjourney and then Stability.
DALL-E does not really show those people or the realistic aspect of those people, I would assume because they're worried about litigation, especially the fact that Elon Musk is not really the best of friends with Sam Altman from OpenAI GPT. So it kind of makes sense.
Adobe Firefly
Aside from that, I've tested other tools like Adobe Express's AI tool. It's very similar to any AI image generator out there. It simply takes your text and transforms it into an image.
I like it if you're looking for something that is artistic and pretty.
So if you're looking to create a book and you're looking for images that could fit this sector, then this is a good option.
If you're looking to print out some posters, this is also not a bad option.
But I wouldn't think they're the best when it comes to ultra-realistic images of people, similar to GPT. Adobe is quite a big company, so it's not easy for them to just showcase images of Elon Musk.
Ideogram
Additionally, there is Ideogram. I like this company, this company is based in Canada and it raised funding of around $96 million. Their product is not bad at all. Their images are good, their pricing is average.
I would say they are trying to compete with Midjourney in this sense and they're doing a good job, but now the market is very saturated with such products that it's really difficult to find something that is unique than the others.
Pricing is a really, really, really important matter when it comes to this technology because of the fact that almost all the tools mentioned are going to grant the average user what they are looking for.
I discovered all these tools when I was working on my own private tool as a side hustle or a hobby that I've been doing for a while, and it looks really good, and from that I actually was able to conclude this list.
Let me know what you think of the list, and if you tried any of them. If not, make sure to pin this in the future when and if you need an AI image generator.