Ideogram 4.0
still the typography specialist, with a licence you must read
still the best model for stylised lettering, and the cheapest good option per megapixel — but the downloadable weights are non-commercial, whatever the press coverage says.
ideogram built its identity on rendering text correctly and it still leads on typography specifically: dense small type, multi-word headlines, lettering that follows a curve or sits properly inside a shape. it is also number one open-weight model on designarena.
version 4 added bounding-box layout control and a structured json prompting interface, which is genuinely differentiated — if you are generating hundreds of assets that each carry a headline in a fixed position, that turns a creative tool into a pipeline component.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai image models
- pricing
- $0.00525 / MP turbo, $0.0105 balanced, $0.0175 quality
- website
- ideogram.ai
still the best model for stylised lettering, and the cheapest good option per megapixel — but the downloadable weights are non-commercial, whatever the press coverage says.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
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