Ideogram V4.5
Ideogram's precise-editing image model — typography-first generation, reference-guided edits, and mask-based inpainting at up to 2K.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/image/generate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "ideogram-v4-5",
"prompt": "A serene mountain lake at dawn, photorealistic"
}' --output image.pngOverview
What is Ideogram V4.5
Ideogram V4.5 is Ideogram's image generation and editing model, released September 30, 2026. It renders legible in-image typography for posters, logos and packaging, and edits existing images via natural-language instructions with up to five source images, optional masking, and reference-guided restyling at up to 2K resolution.
Using it anonymously on Venice
On Venice, Ideogram V4.5 runs under the anonymized privacy tier — your prompts are never stored, profiled, or fed into a training pipeline, and there is no personal generation history tied to your identity. You pay per image instead of Ideogram's subscription, so a one-off poster or logo exploration costs cents, not a monthly commitment. Big-Tech image tools keep your creative briefs; Venice throws them away.
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- Ideogram
- Modality
- Text-to-image, image-to-image editing with reference images and masking
- Open weights
- No — proprietary; open-weight release has been reported as planned but is not available
- License
- Proprietary
- Resolutions
- 1K, 2K
- Modes
- low / medium / high quality
- Prompt limit
- 10,000 chars
- Input images
- Up to 5 source images per edit (1 image to edit + up to 4 references)
- Released
- September 30, 2026
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5
- Quality modes
- low / medium / high
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Sep 2026
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Typography-first design: it renders exact headline wording inside posters, packaging, wordmarks and social graphics, where the lettering is part of the layout rather than an afterthought.
- Precise natural-language editing: swap wording, restyle a layout, or revise an existing design while keeping the original's proportions, with the model specifically tuned to reduce unwanted visual drift during edits.
- Reference-guided workflows: combine the image to edit with up to four additional references for a product, logo, or style direction.
- Mask-based inpainting: black pixels get edited, white pixels are preserved, so you can change one region of a design without touching the rest.
- Very long prompt support (10,000 characters) suits structured marketing briefs and full layout descriptions.
- Strong instruction-following: in a third-party head-to-head it beat AuraFlow decisively on counting, layout, and text-accurate tasks.
- Closed and proprietary: no open weights you can self-host or fine-tune; a planned open-weight release has been reported but is not confirmed as available.
- Output tops out at 2K on Venice, while rivals like GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst reach 4K.
- Human anatomy remains a known weak spot: third-party testing found malformed anatomy and over-tight cropping on some figurative prompts.
- Aspect-ratio adherence is imperfect; reviewers report it sometimes misses requested framings.
- It is a design specialist: for pure cinematic or photographic aesthetics, generalist models may look better.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Event posters and flyers built around a headline that must be spelled exactly right.
- 02Logo and wordmark concepts exploring lettering and symbols together.
- 03Packaging and label mockups combining product name, illustration and label design.
- 04Social graphics and thumbnails with a short headline as the focal point.
- 05Revisions of existing designs — change a headline or visual direction using the original plus references.
Prompting
Getting better results
Put the exact headline in quotes and describe its typeface (serif, sans-serif, hand-lettered) and placement — the model treats wording as part of the design.
For edits, upload the image first, then describe the change in plain language; add up to 4 reference images to steer product, logo, or style.
Use a mask when you only want one region changed — black pixels are edited, white pixels stay untouched.
Iterate at 1K low quality ($0.04) and re-render the winning prompt at 2K high quality only once you're happy.
Exploit the 10,000-character prompt limit: write a full layout brief (headline position, imagery, spacing) instead of a short caption.
Pick one of the 7 aspect ratios (1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5) up front to match the destination format — poster, story, or thumbnail.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
A retro travel poster with the bold headline "VENICE" in large condensed serif type, sunset color palette, clean layout
Photorealistic close-up portrait of a weathered fisherman at golden hour, 85mm lens, shallow depth of field, natural skin texture
A small red cube balanced on top of a large glossy blue sphere, with a green cone to the right, plain light-grey studio background
Cozy watercolor illustration of a hillside village in autumn, warm tones, soft paper texture
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Best for | Max resolution | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ideogram V4.5 | Typography & design editing | 2K | No | from $0.26 / image |
| GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst | Text & instruction-following | 4K | No | from $0.07 / image |
| Grok Imagine 2.0 | Fast general imagery | 2K | No | from $0.07 / image |
| Krea 2 Turbo | Speed at low cost | 2K | No | from $0.04 / image |
| Flux 2 Max | Photoreal detail | — | No | $0.09 / image |
Pick Ideogram V4.5 when the image has to carry words — posters, packaging, wordmarks — and you need to edit an existing design without visual drift. For 4K ceilings or pure photographic look, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst or Flux 2 Max are the better calls.
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-v4-5",
"prompt": "A serene mountain lake at dawn, photorealistic"
}' --output image.pngPricing
What it costs on Venice
Pay per image on Venice — price scales with resolution and quality, from $0.04.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Ideogram V4.5 is Ideogram's image generation and editing model, released on September 30, 2026. It specializes in legible in-image typography for posters, logos and packaging, and edits existing images from natural-language instructions using up to five source images, optional masks, and reference images.
Venice bills per image, scaled by resolution and quality: $0.04 for a 1K or 2K low-quality render, $0.07 at medium quality, and $0.26 at high quality. There is no subscription required — you pay only for what you generate.
It is neither free-software nor open-weights: the model is proprietary to Ideogram, and a reported plan to publish open weights has not materialized into an available release. On Venice, new accounts do get free daily image prompts and welcome credits, so you can try it without a credit card.
Both render strong in-image text, but they optimize for different work. Ideogram V4.5 is built around design workflows — exact headline wording, reference-guided edits, mask-based inpainting — at up to 2K. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst reaches 4K and follows complex general instructions well. Choose Ideogram for typography-led design and editing; choose Sunburst for maximum resolution.
On Venice it outputs 1K and 2K images in seven aspect ratios: 1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4 and 4:5, each selectable at low, medium or high quality.
Yes — editing is its headline feature. Provide an image plus a plain-language instruction, optionally add up to four reference images for product, logo or style guidance, and use a mask to restrict changes to specific pixels. It can also preserve the source image's proportions by default.
Venice runs it under the anonymized privacy tier: prompts and generations are not stored, not linked to a personal profile, and not used for training. You get the same model without handing your creative briefs to an ad-driven platform.
Yes — accurate typography is the model's core specialty. You supply the exact wording in the prompt and describe the typeface and placement, and Ideogram treats the lettering as part of the layout. It is strongest on headlines, labels and wordmarks; very dense multi-line body copy is where competitors have been closing the gap.
Use Ideogram V4.5 anonymously
Venice does not store your prompts. Chat history stays in your browser.