Ideogram
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Ideogram, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Ideogram's own pricing page, checked 14 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | weekly slow credits · 1 running or queued generation · no private generations · no batch generation · no quality export · Free |
| Plus | $20 a month | 2,400 credits/mo · private generations · unlimited slow credits · large queue · paid priority-credit top-ups · $20 billed monthly; $15/mo, $180 billed annually |
| Team | $30 a month | 3,600 credits/user/mo · minimum 2 users · centralized billing and administration · collaboration · largest queue · $30/user/mo billed monthly; $20/user/mo billed annually |
| Pro | $60 a month | 7,500 credits/mo · batch generation · quality export · private generations · unlimited slow credits · largest queue · $60 billed monthly; $42/mo, $504 billed annually |
| Self-Serve Commercial License | $300 a month | self-hosted public quantized weights · 10,000–100,000 images/mo · commercial use · $300/mo; annual billing saves $720 |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | custom credits · private custom models · API volume discounts · priority support · Custom postpaid pricing |
The facts
Each one read from Ideogram's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- API capabilities
- The API supports image generation, editing, Remix, inpainting, background removal and replacement, reframing, upscaling, typography tools and custom-model training.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API pricing
- Ideogram 4.0 API access is priced per image at $0.03 Turbo, $0.06 Default or $0.10 Quality, without a subscription requirement.checked 14 Oct 2026
- API structure
- Version 2 uses POST /v2/{content}/{action}/{model}; the documentation provides Python, TypeScript and cURL examples and webhook or polling delivery.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Canvas
- Canvas is an infinite board supporting uploads, generation, Remix, Magic Fill inpainting, Extend outpainting, text layers, arranging and downloads.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Character Reference
- Character Reference keeps a character consistent using one reference image and can be combined with Remix and Magic Fill.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Commercial use
- includedchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Documentation depth
- Developer documentation covers v1 and v2 endpoints, asynchronous jobs, webhooks, image editing, tools, custom datasets and model training, with API setup, dashboard and status links.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Funding news
- VentureBeat reported an $80 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in February 2024, following a $16.5 million seed round.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Image editing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Legal name and funding
- Crunchbase identifies Ideogram AI Inc as a Toronto-based for-profit company with 11–50 employees, two funding rounds and investors including Redpoint and Index Ventures.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: competitive differentiation
- VentureBeat reported that newer Midjourney and DALL-E releases reduced Ideogram’s text-rendering differentiation and that generated text can still be inconsistent.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: independent image quality assessment
- Digital Camera World says prompt adherence and photorealism trail newer generators, free access is limited to roughly one to three generations daily, and tested output was capped at 1024×1024.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: service outages
- IsDown recorded 54 monitored incidents, including a roughly one-hour complete outage on July 27, 2026 and a 25-minute high-latency incident on July 16, 2026.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Limit: Trustpilot subscription and reliability complaints
- Reviewers report confusing subscription management, interface changes, editing features restricted to higher tiers, failed references, degraded character consistency and loss of slow generation after priority credits run out.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Magic Prompt and batch
- Magic Prompt expands short ideas into richer prompts, while CSV batch generation can process up to 500 prompts on Pro and Team plans.checked 14 Oct 2026
- MCP integration
- Ideogram provides a streamable HTTP MCP server usable from Claude, ChatGPT desktop connectors, Cursor, Cline, OpenCode and custom MCP clients; it consumes web-plan credits.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Monthly credits
- 1000checked 22 Sep 2026
- Notable news: Ideogram 4.0
- On June 3, 2026, Ideogram announced Ideogram 4.0 as an open-weight model with a commercial licence, downloadable weights, API access and enterprise self-hosting or fine-tuning.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Open weights licence
- Ideogram 4.0 weights are distributed under the Ideogram Non-Commercial Model Agreement, while the inference code is Apache 2.0, so the weights are not unrestricted open-source software.checked 14 Oct 2026
- Output formats
- JPEG,PNG,WebPchecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Ideogram as a privately held technology and internet company founded in 2022 with 11–50 employees and headquarters in Toronto.checked 14 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Limit: Apple App Store feedback
- App reviewers request creator comments and credit refunds for deleted images; others report VPN verification loops and missing or harder-to-use Remix controls.checked 14 Oct 2026
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