Image generation

Ideogram 4.0

Name: Ideogram 4.0
Author: Ideogram

Ideogram's current flagship, a 9.3B-parameter diffusion transformer released 3 June 2026 with both API access and downloadable weights.

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

Resolution: 2048 px on the long side (native resolutions 256-2048 in multiples of 16)
Aspect ratios: up to 6:1 (and the inverse); arbitrary sizes in multiples of 16 within 256-2048 px
Weights: Downloadable
API: Yes
Commercial use: The licence forbids commercial use

Its distinguishing feature is layout-first generation: elements are positioned by bounding box in 0-1000 normalized coordinates inside a structured JSON prompt, alongside hex colour-palette conditioning. Native resolutions run from 256 to 2048 px in multiples of 16, with aspect ratios up to 6:1.

Commercial use — The licence forbids commercial use

The published weights are under an 'Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial' licence, so commercial use of the downloaded weights is not permitted by default.

This entry was written by hand from the licence wording quoted above, because the source dataset's yes/no field was misleading here. 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: 2048 px on the long side (native resolutions 256-2048 in multiples of 16)
Aspect ratios: up to 6:1 (and the inverse); arbitrary sizes in multiples of 16 within 256-2048 px
Controls: text-rendering, image-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, style-reference, editing-by-instruction
Weights: Downloadable
API: Yes
Pricing: per image: 4.0 Turbo $0.03, 4.0 Default $0.06, 4.0 Quality $0.10 (same rates cover generate, remix, edit, reframe and replace-background)
Released or updated: 2026-06-03

Strengths

Best-in-class in-image text rendering (0.97 on X-Omni English OCR per third-party reporting)
Explicit bounding-box layout control instead of prose-only prompting
Open weights small enough to run on a single 24GB GPU (nf4 build)

Weaknesses

Weights license is non-commercial despite launch messaging about commercial availability
2048 px ceiling is below 4K rivals
Layout-JSON prompting is a learning curve

Best for

Poster, packaging and ad layouts where text and element placement must be exact.

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.

MATERIAL CONFLICT: third-party coverage of the Ideogram 4.0 launch states it was 'released with open weights under a commercial license' allowing enterprise fine-tuning and self-deployment, while the Hugging Face model card names the license 'Ideogram 4 Non-Commercial'. We could not fetch ideogram.ai/news/ideogram-4.0 (HTTP 403). commercialUseAllowed is set false on the strength of the model card; a paid/enterprise commercial license likely exists separately.
Images generated via Ideogram's paid API/subscription are a separate question from the weights license and were not verified.

What to understand before using it

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

Conditioning and control: everything you hand the model besides noise names “conditioning”
Open weights versus closed API: renting or owning the model names “open weights”
Text encoders and conditioning: how a prompt steers the picture names “conditioning”
Diffusion models: generation by denoising names “diffusion”

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.

Aetherwave Music
Music, image, video and audio generation across top AI providers - one key, one credit pool.
Comfyui Image generation
MCP server + Claude Code plugin for ComfyUI: run workflows, generate images, manage models & VRAM.
Corent Image generation
Generate images and videos via the Corent API, auto model routing with provider fallback.
Ideogram Image generation
Ideogram V3 API, generate, edit, remix, reframe, replace background, upscale images.
Ideogram V3 Image generation
RunAPI MCP server for Ideogram V3: create tasks, poll status, check pricing.
InVideo Video generation
Create professional marketing videos with AI-powered generation, templates, and automated voiceovers.

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.