Licensing

A frontier image model you can customize.

Open weights for research. License Ideogram to fine-tune, self-host, and ship.

Why open source

The future of AI is open source.

Over the past year, proprietary image models pulled ahead on text rendering, prompt adherence, and photorealism while open weight models fell behind. Ideogram 4.0 closes that gap. We're releasing the weights so the research community can push visual intelligence forward with us.

Explore open weights

Three paths

Pick the license that fits your work.

Free for research and prototyping.

Non-commercial license

Download Ideogram model weights from Hugging Face for research, evaluation, and personal projects. Free under the Ideogram Non-Commercial Model Agreement.

License terms Free for everyone

Use the public, quantized weights for research, evaluation, prototyping, and personal projects. Commercial deployments should use Self-Serve or Enterprise.

No checkout or payment required
Outputs remain subject to the usage policy

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Free for everyone

Quantized model weights on Hugging Face
Apache 2.0 inference code on GitHub
Fine-tunes and modifications permitted
Outputs are yours, subject to the Acceptable Use Policy

For self-hosted public weights.

Self-Serve Commercial License

Buy commercial-use rights for self-hosting Ideogram 4 public, quantized weights on your own infrastructure.

Total price

Annual

$300 per month

Image allowance

Purchase / Get Started

All features in Non-commercial, plus

Commercial use of Ideogram 4 public/quantized weights
Self-hosting on your own infrastructure
Commercial use of generated images
Monthly image allowance selected at checkout

Does not include

Full-precision weights
Ideogram-hosted API access
Implementation support
Custom legal terms
Resale, sublicensing, or API-like access for third parties

For larger or more complex needs.

Enterprise

Built for deployments that need review, custom terms, support, full precision, or third-party access.

Custom engagement Need more than self-serve?

Work with our team for 100K+ images/month, customer-facing products, full-precision access, support, security review, or custom legal terms.

Custom volume and deployment review
Support and security review available

All features in Self-Serve, plus

More than 100K images/month
Customer-facing products or platforms
API-like access for third parties
Broad agency, client-domain, resale, or sublicensing questions
Full-precision weights
Support, onboarding, security review, custom legal terms, or sensitive deployments

API, weights, and open release

An API gets you started. A license gives you control.

The right setup depends on whether you need fast integration, deployment control, or both. Most production teams end up running both.

Need	Enterprise license	Self-serve commercial	Ideogram API	Open weights research
Model access	Full-precision or custom	Public/quantized	Hosted API	Public/quantized
Production and commercial use	Custom terms	Included	Included	Not permitted
Monthly volume	100K+ or custom	10K-100K	Usage based	Research only
Self-host on your infrastructure	Yes	Yes	No	Yes, non-commercial only
Customer-facing or third-party access	Talk to sales	Not included	API terms	Not permitted
Support, security review, custom legal	Available	Not included	Talk to sales	None

Why license

What a license gives you directly.

Control

Keep generation, prompts, and outputs inside your stack. Start with standard self-serve rights for public weights, or work with sales when your deployment needs custom review.

Model access

Use public, quantized weights for smaller commercial self-hosting. Full-precision access, specialized rights, and customer-facing terms go through Enterprise.

Self-hosting

Run Ideogram on your own infrastructure for data residency, predictable unit economics, and the latency your workflow needs. Hosted generation remains available through the API.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is licensing for?

Licensing is for teams using Ideogram models outside the standard hosted app or API. The self-serve commercial license covers smaller self-hosted commercial use of Ideogram 4 public, quantized weights. Larger, customer-facing, support-heavy, full-precision, or custom legal needs should use Enterprise.

What is the difference between the open weights and a commercial license?

The open weights release is a quantized version of the model published on Hugging Face under the Ideogram Non-Commercial Model Agreement. The self-serve commercial license adds commercial-use rights for those public, quantized weights. Full-precision weights, customer-facing products, API-like access, and custom terms require Enterprise.

Can I use Ideogram outputs commercially?

Yes. Ideogram does not claim ownership of outputs generated with the model. You can use outputs commercially as long as you respect third-party rights and follow the Acceptable Use Policy. The exception is using outputs to train models that compete with Ideogram.

Can I fine-tune the model?

Fine-tuning, LoRAs, and modifications are permitted for non-commercial use under the open weights agreement. Commercial fine-tuning rights should follow the final self-serve terms, or go through Enterprise when the use case needs review.

Can I self-host Ideogram on my own infrastructure?

Yes. Smaller commercial users can self-host Ideogram 4 public, quantized weights under the self-serve commercial license at 10K-100K images/month. More than 100K images/month, full precision, customer-facing products, or third-party/API-like access should use Enterprise.

What is not permitted?

Ideogram models cannot be used for surveillance, biometric identification, military applications, CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery, or any unlawful or rights-violating activity. The full list is in the Acceptable Use Policy.

Can commercial terms be customized?

Yes, through Enterprise. The self-serve commercial license uses standard terms and does not include custom legal terms, implementation support, or security review.