Ideogram 3.0
The typography-first image model — logos, posters, and ad text rendered spelled correctly.
About
Ideogram 3.0 (March 26, 2025) is the design-industry favorite text-to-image model: its defining strength is legible, correctly-spelled text and typography in generated images — logos, headlines, packaging, UI labels — where general models garble words. Adds Style Reference (up to 3 images), Character Reference, Magic Fill, and Canvas editing tools, with Turbo/Balanced/Quality speed tiers.
Freemium: web app + API, closed weights for 3.0. (Note: Ideogram 4.0, June 2026, introduced open weights and 2K generation — the company is moving toward openness; this entry covers the widely-deployed 3.0.) In professional designer evaluations Ideogram claims consistent wins on design prompts — treat vendor-cited evaluations skeptically, but the typography advantage is broadly corroborated by independent users. Free generations are public by default.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Vendor-cited (professional designer evaluations): wins on design prompts — treat as vendor-cited. Independent: broadly corroborated typography advantage in user comparisons; no standardized public benchmark scores.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). The typography advantage is real and broadly corroborated — the default pick for text-heavy design work. Docked three points: (1) closed weights for 3.0 (4.0 opened up, but this entry is 3.0); (2) design-prompt win claims are vendor-cited evaluations; (3) free-tier limits shift and free generations are public by default — a privacy consideration for client work.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.5/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · design-industry standard for typographic image gen; no public adoption metric
- · released 566 days ago
- · manual review: typography advantage broadly corroborated; free generations public by default (privacy note for client work); license: proprietary — 3.0 closed weights (4.0 opened up); freemium API