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Choose a content tool for your actual task

You subscribe to an image tool because a viral thread recommended it.

Help me choose a content tool. Do not recommend specific products by
name with current features or prices - you may be out of date. Help me
build the test instead.

MY REPEATED TASK: [describe precisely what you need to produce, how
often, and what "good" looks like]
MY VOLUME: [how many per week or month]
MY SKILL LEVEL: [none / some design experience / professional]
MY BUDGET: [amount per month, or zero]
LANGUAGES NEEDED: [English / Hindi / regional]
WHERE THE OUTPUT WILL BE USED: [social / marketplace listings /
advertising / print / internal]
WHAT I WILL UPLOAD: [product photos / customer images / designs /
nothing sensitive]

Give me:
1. THE TEST - three specific prompts or tasks, drawn from MY actual
   need, that I should run identically in each candidate tool. These
   must be my real task, not a showcase task.
2. THE SCORING SHEET - what specifically to look for in the output,
   with what a good result looks like for my use. Include the failure
   modes that matter for my use case - for example legible text,    accurate product shape, correct hands, consistent style across a
   set.
3. THE CATEGORY of tool I need, and what capability actually matters
   for my task versus what is marketed.
4. THE INDIA CHECKS - what to verify about payment, availability,
   GST invoicing and connection reliability before subscribing.
5. THE RIGHTS QUESTION - exactly what I need to confirm in the terms
   about commercial use of the output for my specific use case.
6. THE PRIVACY QUESTION - given what I said I will upload, what I
   need to confirm.

Tell me to check current prices and features on the vendor's own
pages rather than giving me figures.

Point 2's failure-mode list is the useful part. Knowing what to look for is most of the evaluation.

Before you rely on the answer