I’d never heard of DxO PureRaw before March 2022. Want a second opinion? This review by Alex Armitage makes it really clear that Adobe’s AI Denoise tool pretty much blows away ALL third party denoise tools: I’m sure pixel peepers will find plenty to complain about, and perhaps PureRaw 3 does ‘better’ if you get really super picky on 100% crops, but as a professional event photographer and wedding photographer I’m perfectly happy with the new AI tools in Lightroom Classic. So, in all honesty, for my purposes batch cleaning noisy event and wedding shots, I don’t need the DxO PureRaw plugin any more. No colour shifts to speak of, unlike DxO PureRaw 2 the resulting DNG looks EXACTLY like the original raw… just cleaner.
it automatically adds the resulting DNG to the library, applies your edits, AND creates a stack with the original raw file. there’s an adjustable strength slider, AND it shows you a preview. it also does amazing work with Fuji files. Whereas with the first generation of AI Denoise built into Lightroom Classic: DxO claim they can’t reproduce this even though I sent many, many examples. and when it does finally import, while it applies my edits I usually need to correct the exposure or the white balance as everything is often a tiny bit too dark and/or warm. the auto-import process rarely works properly I usually need to ‘synchronise folder’ after I run it, which leads to a torrent of import error messages about an hour later for some reason, all of which need to be manually dismissed (lots of fun if you ran it on dozens of images in a batch!). but there’s no adjustable settings, and no preview – you have to actually run it to see what you’ll get. the PureRaw plugin was at the time the best denoise tool for Fuji raw files. I’ll leave my outdated review of PureRaw 2 up below, for posterity. So why bother spending more money when AI Denoise is built into Lightroom Classic at no extra cost? 
I’ve not bothered to upgrade to PureRaw 3 as the new AI Denoise in Lightroom Classic is already so much better to use than PureRaw 2 was, without any of the PureRaw 2 bugs I came up against. I honestly don’t think anyone really needs the PureRaw plugin any more. Adobe just added AI Denoise abilities to Lightroom Classic and they are fantastic.
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