Ideogram V4
Ideogram's premier 9.3B open-weight image model — the gold standard for in-image typography, structured layout control, and 2K design assets.
Overview
What is Ideogram V4
Ideogram V4 is a state-of-the-art 9.3B parameter text-to-image model released in June 2026. It is renowned for its industry-leading multilingual text rendering, precise bounding-box layout control, and native 2K resolution output, making it a premier choice for graphic design, posters, and marketing assets.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, you can harness Ideogram V4's design-first capabilities under our anonymized privacy tier, ensuring your creative prompts are never stored or used for profiling. Instead of restrictive monthly subscriptions, Venice offers flat, pay-per-image pricing at $0.15 per generation. This allows you to run this powerful open-weight model privately and cost-effectively.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Unmatched typography: Wins nearly half of all blind matchups (47.9%) for text-in-image rendering, making it the top choice for posters, packaging, and ads.
- Structured JSON prompting: Supports explicit bounding-box layout, color-palette controls, and detailed composition planning.
- Native 2K photoreal output, delivering crisp, high-resolution details built specifically for production design.
- Deep language understanding powered by a concatenated 13-layer Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct text encoder.
- While highly competitive, it is not the absolute leader in pure photographic realism or abstract artistic generation compared to models like Flux 2 Max.
- Requires structured or highly descriptive prompting to fully leverage its advanced layout and color controls.
- Served on Venice via a third-party provider under an anonymized tier, meaning requests are forwarded rather than run on Venice's zero-retention local infrastructure.
Capabilities
What it supports
- Text to image
- Image to image
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- Ideogram
- Released
- June 3, 2026
- Modality
- Text-to-image
- Parameters
- 9.3 Billion
- Architecture
- Single-stream Diffusion Transformer (DiT) with Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct text encoder
- Max resolution
- 2K native
- Open weights
- Yes — Apache-2.0 License
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 21:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5
- Prompt limit
- 10,000 chars
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Jun 2026
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/image/generate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "ideogram-v4",
"prompt": "A serene mountain lake at dawn, photorealistic"
}' --output image.pngPricing
What it costs on Venice
Flat per-image pricing on Venice: $0.15 per generation.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Max resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ideogram V4 | 2K | Typography & layout | No | $0.15 / image |
| GPT Image 2 | 4K | Text & instruction-following | No | from $0.27 / image |
| Flux 2 Max | 4MP | Photoreal detail | No | $0.09 / image |
| Grok Imagine High Quality (SOTA) | 2K | Aesthetic realism | No | from $0.08 / image |
The undisputed leader in text-in-image rendering and structured design layout.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Creating posters, advertisements, and social media cards with highly accurate embedded text.
- 02Designing product packaging and merchandise mockups requiring precise label placement.
- 03Generating branded marketing assets with strict adherence to specific color palettes.
- 04Prototyping UI layouts and graphic designs using structured bounding-box controls.
Prompting
Getting better results
Enclose the exact text you want rendered inside double quotation marks.
Utilize structured descriptions to specify backgrounds, color palettes, and object positions.
Take advantage of the 10,000-character prompt limit to describe complex, multi-element scenes in detail.
Version history
Initial release establishing industry-leading text rendering.
Significant improvements to prompt adherence and graphic styles.
Current version — first open-weight release, 9.3B parameters, structured JSON prompting, and 2K output.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Ideogram V4 is a 9.3B parameter open-weight text-to-image model released in June 2026. It is specifically optimized for graphic design, featuring industry-leading text rendering, structured JSON layout controls, and native 2K resolution output.
On Venice, Ideogram V4 costs a flat $0.15 per image generation. Optional upscaling is available at $0.02 for 2× upscale and $0.08 for 4× upscale.
Ideogram V4 is released with open weights under the permissive Apache-2.0 license, meaning developers can download, fine-tune, and run it locally. On Venice, you can access it via a pay-per-image API without needing expensive local hardware.
Ideogram V4 is generally superior for graphic design, posters, and packaging due to its specialized text-rendering engine and structured layout controls. GPT Image 2 is better for multi-turn conversational editing and native 4K outputs.
No, Ideogram V4 is a dedicated text-to-image foundation model and does not natively support tool use, web search, or conversational image-to-image editing on Venice.
Venice processes Ideogram V4 requests under an anonymized privacy tier. Your prompts are forwarded to a third-party provider without any identifying account details, and Venice does not store or train on your prompt history.
Unlike models trained purely on web-scraped alt-text, Ideogram V4 was trained on structured JSON captions. This allows designers to use explicit bounding-box layout instructions and color palettes to control the exact composition of the image.
Run Ideogram V4 privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.