Ideogram API
Developer API that generates, remixes, inpaints, upscales and edits images with Ideogram's own image models and selected third-party models, removes backgrounds, layerizes text, trains custom models and runs third-party video models, billed from a prepaid credit balance.
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What it does
- Image generation
- Image editing
- Video generation
- Model training
Features 4
- Text to image APITurns a prompt into an image using Ideogram's family of image models.
- Image to image API (Remix)Starts from a reference image and guides the output with a prompt.
- Image upscaling APIIncreases resolution while recovering texture and detail.
- Custom apps APITurns repeatable creative tasks into clear inputs and outputs that can be embedded in a product.
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- Pricing
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
"API usage is prepaid: requests draw down a credit balance according to the API pricing"; one-time credit purchases of $10 to $300 or auto recharge. The pricing page's API tab adds "Default rate limit is 10 in-flight requests. For volume or enterprise pricing, contact us." Per-endpoint rates on the API pricing tab load client-side and did not render in a headless browser; the background-removal page states "$0.01 per image". No free API allowance is stated.
- Description
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
"The Ideogram API brings Ideogram's image and video models into your product." Sections: Generate ("Ideogram 4.5 and 4.0 ... or with GPT Image and Nano Banana"), Remix and inpaint, Upscale, Backgrounds, Video ("Seedance, MiniMax H3, and Kling"), Tools; the product page adds "removing backgrounds, layerized text, and training custom models".
- What it does
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
"An API for generation, editing, removing backgrounds, layerized text, and training custom models."
- Sold within
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
"Your Ideogram app subscription and your API account are billed separately, so you can run the API from a free app account." Self-serve key creation and prepaid billing in the API dashboard.
- Name
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
"Ideogram API | Image generation, built into your product."
- URL
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
Product page titled "Ideogram API", linked from the site menu under Developers > Build > API.
- Deployment
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
Hosted endpoints at api.ideogram.ai; results returned as expiring URLs.
- Interfaces
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
REST endpoints authenticated with the "Api-Key" header; the MCP page offers "Add Ideogram to any AI agent" (https://ideogram.ai/features/mcp/).
- Modalities
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
Prompts and images in; images and video out.
- Intended for
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Official documentation · 11 Oct 2026
Developers integrating image generation into their product; enterprise volume via partnership contact.
Also from Ideogram
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Ideogram Application
Web and iPhone app that generates images with legible text from prompts and edits them, with upscaling, editable text layers, transparent-background editing and batch generation on paid plans.
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Custom Image Models Application
Trains a private Ideogram image model on 15 to 100 of a brand's own images so that later generations follow its art direction, typography and visual identity, shareable across a team.
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