Shotcraft
Image generation

Imagen 4 (Fast / Standard / Ultra)

Google's standalone dedicated text-to-image family (imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001, imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001), offering 1K or 2K output, five fixed aspect ratios, 1-4 images per request and a 480-token prompt limit.

An image model by Google · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Resolution
2K (1K default; Ultra and Standard support 1K and 2K)
Aspect ratios
1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 9:16
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Not established

IMPORTANT: Google's docs state Imagen models are deprecated and shut down on 17 August 2026, with Nano Banana as the recommended migration path. Include only for migration planning.

Shutdown scheduled

Marked deprecated with shutdown on 2026-08-17, three days after this snapshot. Google's current image lineup is the Nano Banana / Gemini image models.

Effective: 2026-08-17

Commercial use — Not established

The research notes for this model record other terms but do not state a commercial-use position, and no licence page was retrieved, so it is not established here. Check the vendor's own terms.

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 Google'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 strong: the figures came from pages we retrieved and read. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text
What it makes
image
Maximum resolution
2K (1K default; Ultra and Standard support 1K and 2K)
Aspect ratios
1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 9:16, 16:9
Controls
text-rendering
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
per image: Fast $0.02, Standard $0.04, Ultra $0.06
Released or updated
2026-08-17 (scheduled shutdown)

Strengths

  • Cheapest Google image tier at $0.02 (Fast)
  • Simple, predictable flat per-image pricing
  • Photorealism-focused dedicated model rather than a multimodal chat model

Weaknesses

  • DEPRECATED: shuts down 17 August 2026, three days after this verification date
  • No image input, so no editing or reference workflows
  • 480-token prompt cap and only five aspect ratios

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 Google

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.