{
  "slug": "ideogram",
  "name": "Ideogram",
  "url": "https://ideogram.ai/",
  "cat": "assets",
  "group": "design",
  "tagline": "AI image generation (text rendering)",
  "price": "Free · $20/mo · $60/mo · API $0.03–$0.10/img",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": true,
  "what": "Ideogram 4.0 (June 2026, 9.3B params, native 2K, first open-weight model in the family). Its differentiator is confirmed, not marketing: reliable, legible <b>text rendered inside images</b> — headlines, packaging copy, signage — at multilingual and small-type scale.",
  "why": "<b>The cover-art and hero-image answer.</b> Bounding-box layout control lets you reserve space for the masthead; <b>Layerize Text</b> (free on every tier, API-accessible) pulls generated type onto its own editable layer so you can change a headline without regenerating. Character reference keeps an illustrated persona consistent across an issue. At $0.03–$0.10/image the API is cheap enough to script batch cover variants.",
  "warn": "The free tier makes every generation <b>public</b> — not viable for unreleased covers. Priority credits do not roll over, and every output image bills separately, so batch size is a direct cost multiplier.",
  "category": {
    "key": "assets",
    "name": "Images & asset pipelines",
    "desc": "Icons, stock, generated cover art, and the licences attached to them.",
    "group": "design",
    "groupName": "Make it look right"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 403,
    "final_url": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T21:45:05.257+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}