Ideogram
Text-to-image AI platform known for accurate in-image text rendering, with a freemium web app, self-serve API, and an open-weight Ideogram 4 model.
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Ideogram is a Toronto-founded generative AI startup specializing in text-to-image generation with industry-leading in-image typography, founded in 2022 by ex-Google Brain/Imagen researchers Mohammad Norouzi, William Chan, Chitwan Saharia, and Jonathan Ho. It offers a freemium web app plus a self-serve REST API (with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, an llms.txt index, and a Fern-generated documentation-search MCP server), and in 2026 released Ideogram 4 as an open-weight model (Apache-2.0 code, non-commercial weights license). The company has raised roughly $96.5M across seed (Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures) and Series A rounds.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Key features |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/monthly | Public generations only, Community gallery access, Free credits via Google, Apple, or Microsoft sign-in |
| Plus | $15/monthly | Rate billed annually (25% savings), Private generation, Unlimited character consistency, Quality export, larger generation queue |
| Pro | $42/monthly | Rate billed annually (30% savings), Best cost per credit, Private and batch generation, Largest generation queue |
| Team | $20/monthly | Per-user billing, billed annually, Everything in Plus, Centralized team management |
| Enterprise | Custom | Everything in Pro, Custom-trained models, Volume API discounts, Priority support, SSO |
Source: https://ideogram.ai/pricing
Agent-readiness
- Discoverability
- 65/100
- Machine-readable content
- 85/100
- Programmatic access
- 90/100
- MCP / agent support
- 45/100
- Self-serve transactability
- 90/100
- Transparency
- 80/100
Security & compliance
- SSO / SAML
- Yes
- Encryption at rest
- Not publicly documented
- Encryption in transit
- Yes
- Audit log
- Not publicly documented
- Pentest report
- Not publicly documented
"Not publicly documented" means Crail found no public evidence either way — not a confirmed absence. See our methodology.
FAQ
Does Ideogram have a free tier?
Yes, Ideogram offers a free tier or free trial.
Can you buy Ideogram without talking to sales?
Yes, Ideogram can be purchased self-serve without a sales call.
Does Ideogram have an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server?
Yes, Ideogram publishes an official MCP server.
What compliance certifications does Ideogram hold?
Ideogram holds: SOC 2.
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Methodology & disclosure
Data verified via agent crawled, last checked 2026-07-27. Agent-readiness methodology version crail-ar-v0.1. No vendor payment influences these scores — see our methodology page.