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Ideogram
Ideogram generates and edits images with readable text, layout control, style tools, and production-focused creative apps.
Ideogram is a web-based generative media platform for creating, editing, and iterating on images. Its tools support text in images, background removal, object removal, resizing, style control, character consistency, and custom image models.
Designers, marketers, agencies, developers, and enterprise teams can use the app, API, or iOS app. A free plan is available, while private generation, batch generation, quality export, collaboration features, custom models, and higher credit limits require paid plans. API usage is billed separately.
Features
- Generate images with Ideogram 4.0
- Render multilingual text and typography in images
- Control image layout with bounding-box placement
- Remove or replace image backgrounds
- Remove unwanted objects from images
- Resize creative assets for different formats
- Use character consistency and style controls
- Access open-weight Ideogram 4.0 under a commercial license
Use cases
- Create logos, posters, packaging, and branded graphics
- Generate marketing images with readable headlines and copy
- Produce print-on-demand designs
- Remove backgrounds and prepare transparent cutouts
- Build image-generation workflows with the API
- Train custom image models for brand-specific assets
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- How to JSON prompt for Ideogram 4.0 (Ideogram 4.0)
What JSON is and how to get results for text, layout, color, and style.
- The Ideogram 4.0 Prompt Guide (Ideogram 4.0)
Two prompting modes, style extraction from any reference, and a Claude skill that packages it all for Ideogram 4.0.
- Ideogram 4.0 Technical Details: Open model at the forefront of design (Ideogram 4.0)
Architecture, training, and JSON prompts.
Capabilities
- Text to image — “Write a prompt, choose a model and generate images.” source
- Edits images — “Change part of an image, extend it, add text, and work in layers.” source
- Upscales — “Increase an image's pixel dimensions with supported upscale controls.” source
- Style or character reference — “Guide a generation with your own pictures.” source
- Image to video — “Turn a prompt, frames or reference clips into a short video with sound.” source
- Text in images — “The model delivers frontier-grade text rendering across languages, bounding-box layout control, and 2K photoreal output.” source
- Commercial use — “Ideogram 4.0 is released with open weights under a commercial license, available for download today and through the Ideogram API.” source
- API — “Hosted access is live on ideogram.ai and through the Ideogram API.” source
- Mobile app — “iPhone app” source
Get it
Pricing
- Starting price
- $15/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-10-24
Plus
- $20 per month
- $180 billed annually
- $15/mo
- 2,400 priority credits/mo.
- All image & video models
- Private generation
- Unlimited slow credits
- Unlimited character consistency
- Larger generation queue
Pro
- $60 per month
- $504 billed annually
- $42/mo
- 7,500 priority credits/mo.
- All image & video models
- The best cost per credit
- Private generation
- Unlimited slow credits
- Batch Generation
Team
- $30 per user/month
- $240 billed annually
- $20/user/mo
- 3,600 priority credits/user/mo.
- All image & video models
- Central billing and administration
- Early access to collaboration features
- Top up credits at any time
- Plus everything in Plus plan
Enterprise
Price on request
- Custom credit amount
- All image & video models
- Private custom models trained on your visual data
- Volume discounts on the API (billed separately)
- Priority customer support