📚 A practical guide to choosing AI image tools by use case, workflow, cost, control, commercial rights, and privacy—not by a single universal ranking.
AI image-generation tools differ substantially by use case: Midjourney is strongest for stylistic exploration, Adobe Firefly for production workflows and commercial safeguards, Ideogram for typography, ChatGPT Images and Gemini for conversational editing, and Stable Diffusion-based systems for local control.