Ideogram 4.0 is Ideogram’s first open weights release and debuts at #8 on our Open Weights Text to Image Leaderboard Ideogram 4.0 is the latest release from @ideogram_ai. Alongside their first party API, Ideogram is releasing 4.0 with open weights and a commercial license. The model generates 2K x 2K outputs (~4MP), with strong text rendering across languages, bounding box layout control, and transparent backgrounds. Ideogram 4.0 uses structured JSON prompts that specify composition and individual scene elements, with a prompt enhancer that expands natural language prompts into this structured format. Note that the prompt enhancer is only available via the Ideogram proprietary API, though it is free to use. We benchmarked the Quality tier of the model served via Ideogram's API, where it ranks #8 in Open Weights Text to Image, and #31 in Text to Image. It places ahead of closed source models including Seedream 3.0 and Luma UNI 1. While Ideogram 4.0 places near the top of our design, layout, and text rendering categories, it ranks further down overall on a balanced benchmark across all use cases including cartoon, anime, and photorealism. The model also has a more stylized look, which typically means it performs less favorably on our benchmarks. Ideogram states the open weights model accessible to the public is essentially the same model with additional safety training and quantization, so we expect a small quality difference. Ideogram 4.0 is available across three API tiers: Turbo at $30/1k images, Default at $60/1k images, and Quality at $100/1k images. The weights are free to download for evaluation and non-commercial use, with commercial self-hosting requiring a separate license. Congratulations to @ideogram_ai on the launch! See below for example generations and a link to vote on Ideogram 4.0 for yourself in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵
