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Ideogram 3.0

Name: Ideogram 3.0
Rating: 6

Image generation built around one job: rendering readable text inside images.

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About

Ideogram 3.0, released March 2025, is a text-to-image model from former Google Brain researchers that specializes in typography - signs, posters, logos, book covers, and packaging come out with text spelled correctly instead of smeared. Version 3.0 improved photorealism, prompt following, and added Style Reference (up to 3 reference images), plus the Canvas editor with Magic Fill and Extend for inpainting and background extension. Honest limitations: reviewers find it lags Midjourney on pure artistic depth and concept art, human faces can be inconsistent, and free generations are public by default. It is a specialist tool, not an all-purpose image generalist.

Specs

Context window

N/A (image generation model)

Pricing

Basic ~$8/mo (400 priority credits), Plus $20/mo (1,000 priority credits, private mode), Pro $60/mo (3,000 credits, batch generation, API access); per-image API rates reported around $0.06 (DEFAULT), $0.03 (TURBO), $0.09 (QUALITY)

Free quota

Free plan with daily slow credits; no credit card required

API access

Web app, iOS app, and developer API (API access via paid plans, per-image rates). Editing features with AI assistance and Image Reference require priority credits.

Weights

Closed — API only

Released

March 26, 2025

Benchmarks

Company-claimed at launch: highest ELO rating in human evaluations across diverse prompts. Text-rendering accuracy reported ~90% by the company vs ~30-40% for Midjourney; one independent review noted it had not verified a head-to-head test. Treat these figures as directional rather than independent benchmarks.

Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.

Use cases

imagesocial

Trust score — 6/10

/10 trustMetrics-checked

Scored 6/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Official release page blocked for direct fetch (403); verified via 5 secondary sources with consistent facts; Release date, feature set, and pricing tiers consistent across reviews and API docs; Benchmark claims are company-reported; no independent head-to-head verified. License: Proprietary hosted service; no open weights (Ideogram 4.0 later released open weights, not 3.0)..

How the trust score is built

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Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers: 7.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load: 8.0/10
Openness · license + docs: 2.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check: 7.0/10

· Official release page blocked for direct fetch (403); verified via 5 secondary sources with consistent facts
· Release date, feature set, and pricing tiers consistent across reviews and API docs
· Benchmark claims are company-reported; no independent head-to-head verified