Ideogram 4.0
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Initial research: 2026-09-21. Check current terms before choosing.
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The facts
- Version
- 4.0
- Price
- From $7 per month. Subscription. Included usage and billing terms vary by plan.
- API
✓Supported - Open weights
✓Supported - Commercial use
- conditional
- Text rendering in image
✓Supported Atlas Cloud's 2026 guide states Ideogram v3 owns the typography niche; 4.0 is the successor frontier text-to-image model
Source for Text rendering in image (opens in a new tab)- Image editing/inpainting
~Partly CometAPI notes additional editing tools are billed on top of the base generation price
Source for Image editing/inpainting (opens in a new tab)- Character consistency
?Not verified Not verified on a fetched page
Source for Character consistency (opens in a new tab)- Commercial licence
~Partly Open weights under a commercial licence; commercial rights are included on every paid tier (subscription, Ideogram API, or fal.ai endpoint), so the free tier is the exception
Source for Commercial licence (opens in a new tab)
Sources
Beyond feature support
Quality evidence.
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We have not published a reviewed quality evaluation for these versions yet. Feature support and price do not establish output quality.
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