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Ideogram

Ideogram

Ideogram is an image generation model line from Ideogram. The latest release is Ideogram 4.0 (3 Jun 2026). This page tracks all 4 Ideogram releases since 22 Aug 2023, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →

Ideogram 4.0

Open weightsFreemiumOfficial APICommunity APISelf-host

First open-weight Ideogram (Apache 2.0, github.com/ideogram-oss/ideogram4). Bounding-box layout control, structured JSON prompting, native transparency; 0.97 X-Omni English OCR - the strongest in-image text of any open model at its size. Hosted API from $0.03/image on the Turbo tier

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Community API, Self-host
Parameters
9.3B
Resolution
native 2K
Architecture
single-stream Diffusion Transformer

Ideogram 1.0-3.0 were closed; 4.0 is the line's first open release, so this row is weights: open while the family history stays closed. Topped the open-weight DesignArena leaderboard on launch day.

Ideogram 3.0

ClosedFreemiumOfficial APIConsumer app

Best-in-class text rendering; improved photorealism; Canvas multi-image editing

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Consumer app

Date approximate

Ideogram 2.0

ClosedFreemiumOfficial APIConsumer app

Improved realism and text accuracy; public API launched; Magic Fill (inpainting) added

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Consumer app

Ideogram 1.0

ClosedFreemiumConsumer app

Text rendering was the launch differentiator; better typography than contemporaries

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Consumer app

Date approximate - launched August 2023

See Ideogram in context on the image model timeline, or browse all model families.