Shotcraft
Image generation

Ideogram 3.0

Previous Ideogram flagship, still fully priced and served on the API, and the version that carries the Character reference feature: one uploaded reference image keeps a subject's face and key traits consistent across prompts via the character_reference_images parameter.

An image model by Ideogram · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing medium

Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Not established

Also introduced Style References and canvas editing (Magic Fill, Extend). Character generation is billed at a premium over plain generation.

Commercial use — Not established

Output rights governed by Ideogram's terms of service (not verified from a fetched legal page).

The licence notes recorded during research were read for a commercial-use position and did not state one. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Ideogram's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is mixed. Some fields came from pages we retrieved, others could not be confirmed and are left blank. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
image
Maximum resolution
not established
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
reference-character-consistency, style-reference, text-rendering, inpainting, outpainting, image-to-image, editing-by-instruction
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
per image: 3.0 Flash/Turbo $0.03, Default $0.06, Quality $0.09. With Character Reference: Turbo $0.10, Default $0.15, Quality $0.20. Related endpoints: Upscale $0.06, Describe $0.01, Instructional Edit $0.20, Layerize $0.09, Background remover from $0.01, Object remover from $0.03.
Released or updated
2025-03

Maximum resolution and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Single-image character consistency that is cheap to wire into a pipeline
  • Full editing suite priced per operation (layerize, instructional edit, describe)
  • Three explicit speed/quality tiers

Weaknesses

  • Character reference roughly doubles to triples per-image cost
  • Superseded by Ideogram 4.0 on quality
  • No published resolution limits for 3.0

Best for

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

MCP servers that front Ideogram

Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.

See it from the vendor

Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.