Ideogram 4.0
Open image model at the forefront of design.
Ideogram 4.0 is Ideogram's open-weight frontier text-to-image model release for design workflows, offering multilingual text rendering, structured JSON prompting, bounding-box layout control, editable/design-oriented elements, and realistic 2K image output. Ideogram describes it as a 9.3B-parameter model with GitHub/download availability, hosted access on ideogram.ai, and API access.
Pricing
Official API pricing page also lists 4.0 Turbo at US $0.03/image and 4.0 Quality at US $0.10/image; the normalized price recorded here uses the 4.0 Default tier because the public pricing page exposes multiple 4.0 tiers rather than a single flat 4.0 price.
Ideogram's official API pricing page lists the 4.0 family as a per-image image product, with 4.0 Default priced at US $0.06 per output image. The official Ideogram 4.0 model page confirms Ideogram 4.0 is the current open image model.
Model Intelligence
Recent stories
Magnific rolled five new image, video, and upscaling models into its workspace and added Auto Layers for editable text, subject, and background separation. Designers can now move from layout to layered edits and model switching inside one tool, while MCP generations still use Magnific credits.
A creator showed Ideogram 4.0 using structured JSON and drawn bounding boxes in ComfyUI to lock composition and text placement, then extended it through Claude Code and ComfyCloud MCP for exact-pixel variations. The posts say the model needs 12 turbo steps and the Kijai prompt-builder node is still being updated, so users should expect an evolving workflow.