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Ideogram 4.0
The Open Typography Specialist
Ideogram 4.0 (June 2026) went open-weight with a commercial license — frontier text rendering, layout control via structured prompting, and native 2K output.
✓Strengths
- •Best-in-class typography among open models
- •Now open-weight with commercial license (self-hostable)
- •Bounding-box layout control is unique
- •Structured JSON prompting for precise composition
- •Native 2K output
- •#1 open-weight model on DesignArena at launch
⚠Considerations
- •Overall quality still below GPT Image 2 / Nano Banana Pro
- •Small free tier (~10 slow credits/week)
- •Credits expire monthly with no rollover
Pricing & Details
Pricing
Plus $20/month, Pro $60/month (annual discounts); open weights free to self-host
Free Option
Yes (limited weekly credits)
Best For
Logos, posters, text-heavy designs, layout-controlled generation
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