Ideogram 3.0 - AI Image Models Tool

Overview

Ideogram 3.0 is a text-to-image model focused on realistic rendering, robust typography, and design-oriented layout generation. Released March 26, 2025, the model is offered in three variants — Turbo, Balanced, and Quality — to let creators trade off cost, speed, and fidelity. It introduces Style References (upload up to three images) and a Random Style library (reported as 4.3 billion presets) to reproduce or explore consistent aesthetics across generations, which is especially useful for branding and marketing workflows. ([ideogram.ai](https://ideogram.ai/features/3.0?utm_source=openai)) According to Replicate’s announcement and Ideogram’s launch materials, v3 raised realism and prompt alignment compared with prior releases, and scored highest on internal human ELO evaluations across a diverse prompt set. The model also emphasizes precise in-image text rendering (long or stylized phrases), flexible aspect ratios, and design-focused outputs such as posters, product mockups, and ads. Community feedback is generally positive on text/layout control and style transfer, though some users reported regressions for specific photorealism use-cases (for example, certain portrait/face details) after the v3 transition. ([replicate.com](https://replicate.com/blog/ideogram-v3))

Key Features

• Three variants (Turbo, Balanced, Quality) for speed/price/quality trade-offs.
• Style References: upload up to 3 images to control and reuse aesthetics.
• Random style library reported to include 4.3 billion presets for inspiration.
• Typography-aware generation: renders long or stylized phrases with high legibility.
• Flexible aspect ratios and default 1024×1024 output for design use-cases.
• Inpainting / Magic Fill and Canvas Extend for editing and compositing workflows.
• API availability on Replicate and Ideogram’s own API/iOS product ecosystem.

Example Usage

Example (python):

import os
import replicate

# Set REPLICATE_API_TOKEN in your environment before running
# export REPLICATE_API_TOKEN="<your_token>"

prompt = "A clean poster showing the text 'V3 Turbo' centered, colorful geometric background"

# Run the Balanced variant (choose ideogram-v3-turbo / -balanced / -quality)
output = replicate.run(
    "ideogram-ai/ideogram-v3-balanced",
    input={
        "prompt": prompt,
        "aspect_ratio": "3:2"
    },
)

# 'output' is typically a URL or base64 data depending on the client; save accordingly
print("Generation result:", output)

Pricing

Replicate-hosted variants list per-output-image prices in the model readmes: Turbo ~$0.03/image, Balanced ~$0.06/image, Quality ~$0.09/image (see Replicate model pages). Note: Ideogram’s own API pages and commercial contracts may use different pricing, volume discounts, or enterprise terms — check Ideogram’s official API/pricing pages for direct commercial integrations. ([replicate.com](https://replicate.com/ideogram-ai/ideogram-v3-turbo))

Benchmarks

Replicate usage (model page): 6M runs (ideogram-v3-turbo model page) (Source: https://replicate.com/ideogram-ai/ideogram-v3-turbo (Replicate readme & model page).)

Turbo price (Replicate readme): $0.03 per output image (Source: https://replicate.com/ideogram-ai/ideogram-v3-turbo (Replicate readme).)

Balanced price (Replicate readme): $0.06 per output image (Source: https://replicate.com/ideogram-ai/ideogram-v3-balanced (Replicate readme).)

Quality price (Replicate readme): $0.09 per output image (Source: https://replicate.com/ideogram-ai/ideogram-v3-quality (Replicate readme).)

Third‑party benchmark: FID: FID 305.60 (DreamLayer benchmark listing) (Source: https://www.dreamlayer.io/ideogram (third-party benchmark summary).)

Default / recommended output: Default output 1024×1024; multiple aspect ratios supported (e.g., 1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16) (Source: https://docs.florafauna.ai/models/image-models/ideogram-3.0 (model parameter docs summary).)

Human evaluation (ELO): Ranked highest in human ELO evaluations versus other text-to-image models (per Ideogram/Replicate announcements) (Source: https://replicate.com/blog/ideogram-v3 and https://ideogram.ai/features/3.0 (official statements).)

Key Information

• Category: Image Models
• Type: AI Image Models Tool