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Replace DALL-E 3 with Stable Diffusion.

DALL-E 3: OpenAI · Stable Diffusion: AUTOMATIC1111 / ComfyUI

Stable Diffusion with AUTOMATIC1111 web UI or ComfyUI for text-to-image generation. SDXL and Flux models rival DALL-E quality. Run locally on GPU, no per-image API costs.

You'd keep~R44 400 to ~R88 800/year

Current licence  ·  AI Image Generation

DALL-E 3

~R44 400 – ~R88 800/yr

10-user estimate

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Stable Diffusion

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R88 800/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. DALL-E 3 (OpenAI)'s prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

ChatGPT Plus (includes DALL-E)

R44 400/yr

R370/user/month

With Stable Diffusion

Keep R44 400/yr

API (est. 500 images/mo)

R88 800/yr

R740/user/month

With Stable Diffusion

Keep R88 800/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

DALL-E 3 grows around 10% per year on average. Stable Diffusion hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR39kR79kR118kR158kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R143kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.61M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

DALL-E 3 (OpenAI)Stable Diffusion (AUTOMATIC1111 / ComfyUI), in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Migrate DALL-E 3.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.