As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
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# Ideogram 4.0

Ideogram, Ideogram family. Status: current. Type: image generation. Released: 2026-06-03.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ideogram API | `ideogram-v4` | https://api.ideogram.ai/v1/ideogram-v4/generate | https://developer.ideogram.ai/api-reference |
| Hugging Face |  |  | https://huggingface.co/ideogram-ai/ideogram-4-fp8 |
| Hugging Face (NF4) |  |  | https://huggingface.co/ideogram-ai/ideogram-4-nf4 |
| Web app |  |  | https://ideogram.ai |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, image
- Output: image
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: Ideogram Non-Commercial Model Agreement (quantized open weights); commercial license separate

## Where it stands

- Newer image generation models in the registry since its release: 17. The 5 newest:
  - GPT Image 2.6 Flare (2026-11-04) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-image-2-6-flare/
  - GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (2026-11-04) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-image-2-6-sunburst/
  - MOSS-Image (2026-10-16) https://postcutoff.com/m/moss-image/
  - FLUX 3 Image Klein (2026-10-15) https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-3-image-klein/
  - Krea 3 (Fast / High / Ultra modes) (2026-10-15) https://postcutoff.com/m/krea-3/
- Weights are public. Licence: Ideogram Non-Commercial Model Agreement; commercial license separate. See the licence for commercial terms.

## What stands out

- Structured JSON prompting with layout control: Native JSON prompt format with explicit bounding-box layout and color-palette controls. Source: https://ideogram.ai/blog/ideogram-4.0/
- Best-in-class multilingual text rendering: Strong in-image typography across languages; native 2K resolution. Source: https://ideogram.ai/blog/ideogram-4.0/
- First Ideogram open-weight model: 9.3B DiT trained from scratch, Qwen3-VL-8B text encoder; quantized weights on HF for research. Source: https://huggingface.co/ideogram-ai/ideogram-4-fp8

## Notes

Some third-party sites claim Apache-2.0 - HF card says license: other (non-commercial). API: Api-Key header, multipart with text_prompt or json_prompt; rendering_speed=FLASH currently returns 400. Also /v1/ideogram-v3/generate (previous gen). Per-image API pricing not verified on official page.

Design-focused image model (posters, logos, layouts with text).

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.ideogram.ai/v1/ideogram-v4/generate -H "Api-Key: $IDEOGRAM_API_KEY" \
  -F text_prompt="Minimal concert poster, title 'NIGHT SHIFT' in bold serif"
```

Sources: https://developer.ideogram.ai/api-reference , https://ideogram.ai/blog/ideogram-4.0/ , https://huggingface.co/collections/ideogram-ai/ideogram-4

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/ideogram-4/