Bing’s free image gen is fine for messing around, but for actual paid projects I’d steer clear. It’s free, no setup needed, just open and go—good enough for making memes or a WeChat Moments pic. But once you’re on real work, problems pop up: no seed means no reproducibility, run the same prompt again and it changes; no ControlNet, no fine-tuning, basically zero control; plus the content filter keeps blocking stuff, even some normal creative requests get caught in the crossfire.
It’s more like a toy or a starting point for ideas.
When you need to deliver, stay consistent, and be responsible for details in commercial images, you gotta go back to tools like SD or Flux that let you dial in every little thing.
Not having a seed makes it impossible to reproduce, which is a dealbreaker. Running the same prompt again gives you a different result.
Good enough for making memes and WeChat Moments pics, but when it comes to actual serious work, it’s really lacking.
The review system keeps blocking stuff for no reason, even normal creations get flagged by mistake.
It’s just a starting point for inspiration—when it comes to actual delivery, you still gotta go back to SD and Flux.
Free and no setup needed is honestly the best part, super convenient to just mess around with.
I’ve run into that false positive thing too, where a perfectly normal word just won’t generate.
For commercial use, you gotta be responsible for the details. Something like Bing is just a toy, it can’t handle that.
Plug-and-play, great for beginners. Once you go deeper, it can’t keep up.