Ideogram, founded by ex-Google Brain (Imagen) researchers, is built around the one thing most image models fail at: text. Posters, logos, packaging, signage and memes come out with correctly spelled, well-designed typography – Ideogram 4.5 claims about 95 percent text accuracy, and the open-weight Ideogram 4.0 arrived in June 2026.
Free accounts (Google, Apple or Microsoft sign-in) get 30 slow-queue credits a week with public images. Plus at $20 per month ($15 annually) adds 2,400 priority credits, private generation and quality export; Pro at $60 ($42 annually) adds 7,500 credits, batch generation and the largest queue; pay-as-you-go tops up at $0.01 per credit.