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Ideogram 4.0

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Ideogram 4.0 is an open-weights image model from Ideogram, released June 2026. Its published size is 9.3B parameters. Licence: ideogram-4-nc.

66.4±2.4#19 of 144 image modelsfrom 2 benchmark results across 2 sources* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the LMArena text-to-image comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The image models ranked either side of Ideogram 4.0, out of 197 with a score, then more from Ideogram.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
21Uni-1.1 Luma AI67±2api $0.040/image2026-05
22Boogu-Image-0.1 Base Boogu project67±5comparison only2026-06
23Ideogram 4.0 Ideogram66±2api $0.060/image +local~6.1GB2026-06
24Qwen-Image 2.0 Pro Alibaba66±3api $0.075/image2026-03
25MAI-Image-2 Microsoft AI66±3comparison only2026-03
more from Ideogram
19Ideogram 4.5 Ideogram68±3comparison only
94Ideogram 3.0 Ideogram52±2api $0.060/image2025-03
118Ideogram 2.0 Ideogram46±2api $0.080/image

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$ what it's good at

text to image▂▅▅▃▄▄█▃▁▂▁▁ #16 of 126 * · 84% of its score · 1 test

Beats Qwen-Image-2.1, Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22), Uni-1.1 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Qwen-Image 2.0 Pro here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena text-to-image1205.1 ✎▂▂▃▄▇█▄▃▄▂·▂ beats 58/75avg 1027▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 84%typical
other tests1 not in a task · 13% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Rapidata Benchmark.ai image benchmark (overall Elo)911.9 ✎▁▁▁▄▂█▂▁▁▂▁▁ beats 4/34avg 875▇▇▇▇▇ 13%typical

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · Together AI · $0.060/image · www.together.ai ↗ · price sourceUSD per generated image on Together AI serverless (endpoint ideogram/ideogram-4.0, released June 2, 2026). Together's pricing overview notes displayed prices refer to the lowest resolution settings, so higher resolutions may cost more. Product: Together AI serverless image generation. API model: ideogram/ideogram-4.0. Settings: default/lowest resolution, n=1. Price basis: published list rate. Currency: USD. Not Ideogram's own API tariff (not shown in its fetched pricing HTML). Together AI official model page, observed 2026-09-25.

Other ways to run it

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  1. Run it as published · needs ~6.08 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/mflux-community
    uvx --from mflux mflux-save --model ideogram-4-fp8 -q 4 --path ideogram-4-mflux-q4 && uvx --from mflux mflux-generate-ideogram4 --model ideogram-4-mflux-q4 --prompt-file caption.json --width 1024 --height 1024 --preset V4_DEFAULT_20

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/ideogram-ai ↗

$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 84%, Rapidata/text-to-image-human-… 13%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
LMArena leaderboard dataset1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 84%CC BY 4.0
Rapidata/text-to-image-human-preference-6M (Benchmark.ai Image Benchmark) published dataset-card rankings1▇▇▇▇ 13%CC-BY-4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 2%
weighted average= 66.4

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