Ideogram 4.0
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.
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- image
- License
- Ideogram Non-Commercial Model Agreement (quantized open weights); commercial license separate
- Verified
- 2026-09-29
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ideogram API | ideogram-v4 | https://api.ideogram.ai/v1/ideogram-v4/generate | docs |
| Hugging Face | — | huggingface.co/ideogram-ai/ideogram-4-fp8 | — |
| Hugging Face (NF4) | — | huggingface.co/ideogram-ai/ideogram-4-nf4 | — |
| Web app | — | ideogram.ai | — |
Notable capabilities (3)
- Structured JSON prompting with layout control: Native JSON prompt format with explicit bounding-box layout and color-palette controls. source
- Best-in-class multilingual text rendering: Strong in-image typography across languages; native 2K resolution. source
- First Ideogram open-weight model: 9.3B DiT trained from scratch, Qwen3-VL-8B text encoder; quantized weights on HF for research. source
Design-focused image model (posters, logos, layouts with text).
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