Catalog/ № 025
Ideogram
situationalImage generator with the strongest text-in-image rendering.
ideogram.aiVerified 2026-08-15
ledger entry · observed by @whysanesanders
The specialist pick when the image must contain accurate text — posters, logo drafts, thumbnails, memes. For general photorealism or art direction, Midjourney and FLUX still win.
Known limitations
- Style range narrower than Midjourney.
- Free queue can be slow at peak times.
- Generations on the free plan are public.
Facts
- pricing
- freemium1
- price note
- free tier (10 credits/wk); Basic $8/mo, Plus $15/mo (yearly)
- free tier
- yes
- open source
- no
- api
- yes
- self-host
- no
- category
- image
Sources
If we can't show the source, we don't print the number.
Same shelf — image
FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
image
Open-weights image models from the original Stable Diffusion team.
OSSAPIFREE TIER
freemiumopen weights (FLUX.2 klein, Apache-2.0); API from ~$0.014/image
Leonardo AI
image
Production-oriented image suite with fine-tuning, canvas editing and team features.
APIFREE TIER
freemiumfree tier (150 tokens/day); Essential $12/mo, Premium $30/mo
Midjourneyfeatured
image
The aesthetic benchmark for AI image generation — Discord-born, now web-first.
paidfrom $10/mo (Basic)