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Plans

PlanBilled and limitsPrice
FreeFree · weekly slow credits · 1 running or queued generation · no private generations · no batch generation · no quality exportFree
Plus$20 billed monthly; $15/mo, $180 billed annually · 2,400 credits/mo · private generations · unlimited slow credits · large queue · paid priority-credit top-ups$20 a month
Team$30/user/mo billed monthly; $20/user/mo billed annually · 3,600 credits/user/mo · minimum 2 users · centralized billing and administration · collaboration · largest queue$30 a month
Self-Serve Commercial License$300/mo; annual billing saves $720 · self-hosted public quantized weights · 10,000–100,000 images/mo · commercial use$300 a month
Pro$60 billed monthly; $42/mo, $504 billed annually · 7,500 credits/mo · batch generation · quality export · private generations · unlimited slow credits · largest queue$60 a month
EnterpriseCustom postpaid pricing · custom credits · private custom models · API volume discounts · priority supportOn request

As ideogram.ai lists them, read 14 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.

Facts from Ideogram's own pages

API access
Yes · ideogram.ai, 22 Sept 2026
API capabilities
The API supports image generation, editing, Remix, inpainting, background removal and replacement, reframing, upscaling, typography tools and custom-model training. · developer.ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
API pricing
Ideogram 4.0 API access is priced per image at $0.03 Turbo, $0.06 Default or $0.10 Quality, without a subscription requirement. · ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
API structure
Version 2 uses POST /v2/{content}/{action}/{model}; the documentation provides Python, TypeScript and cURL examples and webhook or polling delivery. · developer.ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
Canvas
Canvas is an infinite board supporting uploads, generation, Remix, Magic Fill inpainting, Extend outpainting, text layers, arranging and downloads. · docs.ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
Character Reference
Character Reference keeps a character consistent using one reference image and can be combined with Remix and Magic Fill. · docs.ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
Commercial use
included · ideogram.ai, 22 Sept 2026
Company profile
LinkedIn lists Ideogram as a privately held technology and internet company founded in 2022 with 11–50 employees and headquarters in Toronto. · linkedin.com, 14 Oct 2026
Documentation depth
Developer documentation covers v1 and v2 endpoints, asynchronous jobs, webhooks, image editing, tools, custom datasets and model training, with API setup, dashboard and status links. · developer.ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
Free plan
Yes · ideogram.ai, 22 Sept 2026
Funding news
VentureBeat reported an $80 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in February 2024, following a $16.5 million seed round. · venturebeat.com, 14 Oct 2026
Image editing
Yes · ideogram.ai, 22 Sept 2026
Legal name and funding
Crunchbase identifies Ideogram AI Inc as a Toronto-based for-profit company with 11–50 employees, two funding rounds and investors including Redpoint and Index Ventures. · crunchbase.com, 14 Oct 2026
Limit: Apple App Store feedback
App reviewers request creator comments and credit refunds for deleted images; others report VPN verification loops and missing or harder-to-use Remix controls. · apps.apple.com, 14 Oct 2026
Limit: competitive differentiation
VentureBeat reported that newer Midjourney and DALL-E releases reduced Ideogram’s text-rendering differentiation and that generated text can still be inconsistent. · venturebeat.com, 14 Oct 2026
Limit: independent image quality assessment
Digital Camera World says prompt adherence and photorealism trail newer generators, free access is limited to roughly one to three generations daily, and tested output was capped at 1024×1024. · digitalcameraworld.com, 14 Oct 2026
Limit: service outages
IsDown recorded 54 monitored incidents, including a roughly one-hour complete outage on July 27, 2026 and a 25-minute high-latency incident on July 16, 2026. · isdown.app, 14 Oct 2026
Limit: Trustpilot subscription and reliability complaints
Reviewers report confusing subscription management, interface changes, editing features restricted to higher tiers, failed references, degraded character consistency and loss of slow generation after priority credits run out. · trustpilot.com, 14 Oct 2026
Magic Prompt and batch
Magic Prompt expands short ideas into richer prompts, while CSV batch generation can process up to 500 prompts on Pro and Team plans. · docs.ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
MCP integration
Ideogram provides a streamable HTTP MCP server usable from Claude, ChatGPT desktop connectors, Cursor, Cline, OpenCode and custom MCP clients; it consumes web-plan credits. · ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
Monthly credits
1000 · ideogram.ai, 22 Sept 2026
Notable news: Ideogram 4.0
On June 3, 2026, Ideogram announced Ideogram 4.0 as an open-weight model with a commercial licence, downloadable weights, API access and enterprise self-hosting or fine-tuning. · ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
Open weights licence
Ideogram 4.0 weights are distributed under the Ideogram Non-Commercial Model Agreement, while the inference code is Apache 2.0, so the weights are not unrestricted open-source software. · ideogram.ai, 14 Oct 2026
Output formats
JPEG,PNG,WebP · ideogram.ai, 22 Sept 2026

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