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Ideogram vs FLUX

Ideogram (Ideogram) and FLUX (Black Forest Labs) both sit in Image. FLUX is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go API pricing with no subscriptions/seat fees. Pricing varies per image resolution, video second, or megapixel.. Ideogram shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (12 vs 9). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.

Attribute	Ideogram Ideogram	FLUX Black Forest Labs
Segment	Image	Image
Version	4.5	FLUX 3
Entry cost	from $8/mo	Pay-as-you-go API pricing with no subscriptions/seat fees. Pricing varies per image resolution, video second, or megapixel.
Pricing tiers	Free free · Basic $8 · Plus $20 · Pro $60	Pay as you go free
Model stack	GPT Image · GPT Image 2.5 · GPT Image 2.5 Flare · GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst · Ideogram 3.0 · Ideogram 4.0 · Ideogram 4.5 · ideogram-1 · ideogram-3 · ideogram-4 · Kling · Kling v3 Standard · MiniMax H3 · Nano Banana · Nano Banana 2.1 · Nano Banana Pro · Seedance 2.5 · seedance-2-5-text-to-video · Topaz	FLUX 1.1 [pro] · FLUX 3 · FLUX 3 Action · FLUX 3 Image · FLUX 3 Image Klein · FLUX 3 Max · FLUX 3 Video · FLUX 3 Video Draft · FLUX.1 [dev] · FLUX.1 [pro] · FLUX.1 Kontext · FLUX.1 Kontext [max] · FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] · FLUX.2 · FLUX.2 [dev] · FLUX.2 [flex] · FLUX.2 [klein] · FLUX.2 [klein] 4B · FLUX.2 [klein] 9B · FLUX.2 [max] · FLUX.2 [pro] · FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra
Context window	n/a	n/a
Public API
Routes models
Changes / 30d	12	9
Origin	Global	Global
Capabilities	Legible text, Style references, Magic fill, Canvas, Describe, Image Generation, Typography, Remix	Open weights, Image editing, Multi-reference, Character consistency, High resolution, Text-to-Image, Multi-reference image editing, Outpainting

Ideogram

Best known for rendering typography and logos correctly inside generated images.

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FLUX

Image generation and editing models available both as open weights and hosted API.

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