Ideogram
#9 in Text-to-Imageideogram · since August 2023 (Ideogram v1); Ideogram 4.0: June 3, 2026 · 10× · last seen Jun 30, 2026
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Ideogram is a text-to-image generation service by Ideogram AI, a Toronto-based company founded by former Google Brain researchers. The current flagship model, Ideogram 4.0, was released on June 3, 2026 as the company's first open-weight model — a 9.3-billion-parameter Diffusion Transformer that natively generates at 2K resolution. The platform is accessible via the web app (ideogram.ai), a REST API, and self-hosted inference (weights on Hugging Face / GitHub). The model's core strengths are best-in-class in-image text rendering and structured JSON prompts with bounding-box layout control.
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Features
| Fine-Tuning | Yes – weights downloadable and fine-tunable on own hardware; Self-Serve Custom Model Training via API: $40/training run, generation $0.06–0.18/image; Enterprise: brand data on own infrastructure |
| Generation Time | Seconds (priority queue); slow queue up to 20 min. (free/slow credits). Community benchmark locally on RTX 4090: low tens of seconds for 2K |
| License | Inference code: Apache 2.0; model weights (Hugging Face): Ideogram Non-Commercial Model Agreement; commercial use requires separate license / paid subscription/API |
| Max Resolution | Native 2K (up to 2048×2048 px); side length 256–2048 px (multiples of 16), aspect ratios up to 6:1; upscale via Topaz integration up to 8K possible |
| Platform | Web (ideogram.ai), iOS/Android app, REST API (developer.ideogram.ai), Hugging Face, GitHub (local inference); third-party platforms: ComfyUI, fal, Replicate, Leonardo AI, Picsart, and others |
| Price | Free (10 credits/week); Basic $7/mo; Plus $15/mo; Pro $42/mo (each annual); Team $20/user/mo. API: $0.03–$0.10/image. Enterprise: custom. |
| Release Date | Ideogram 4.0: June 3, 2026 (first open-weight model); platform's initial launch: August 2023 |