Ideogram 4.0 Turbo vs Nano Banana Pro
Ideogram's Ideogram 4.0 Turbo and Google's Nano Banana Pro both target image generation, but they price and behave differently. Here is the side-by-side.
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The short answer
Ideogram 4.0 Turbo is the cheaper option — roughly 4.5x less on a blended workload, and it suits legible text inside images. Nano Banana Pro justifies its premium when you need multi-image compositing and iterative edits.
Ideogram • Ideogram 4
$0.03 / $
/ image (input / output)
Ideogram's differentiator is typography: text rendered into an image that stays readable and correctly spelled, which most diffusion models still handle badly. If your output needs a logo, a sign, a poster headline, or packaging copy, this is the specialist worth testing first.
Google • Gemini Image
$0.13 / $
/ image (input / output)
Google's premium image tier, aimed at workflows that feed several source images in and refine the result across turns rather than generating one-shot. The most expensive option in this table at 4K, and the batch lane halves it for anything that does not need a synchronous response.
Input price
Nano Banana Pro is 4.5x the price than Ideogram 4.0 Turbo on input tokens.
Specification comparison
| Attribute | Ideogram 4.0 Turbo | Nano Banana Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Input (/ image) | $0.03 | $0.13 |
| Output (/ image) | — | — |
| Cached input | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Native reasoning | No | No |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — |
| Relative latency | low | medium |
| Open weights | No | No |
| API model ID | ideogram-v4-turbo | gemini-3-pro-image |
| Status | stable | stable |
Nano Banana Pro: 1K–2K resolution on the standard tier; 4K is $0.24. Batch and Flex lanes cut both roughly in half, to $0.067 and $0.12.
Choose Ideogram 4.0 Turbo if…
- Posters and social graphics with text
- Logo and wordmark exploration
- Packaging and label mockups
- Ad creative with headlines
Choose Nano Banana Pro if…
- Compositing multiple source images
- Iterative art direction
- High-resolution brand assets
- Complex edit chains
Frequently asked
Is Ideogram 4.0 Turbo or Nano Banana Pro cheaper?
Ideogram 4.0 Turbo is cheaper. On a blended 3:1 input-to-output workload it costs about 4.5x less than Nano Banana Pro.
Which has the larger context window, Ideogram 4.0 Turbo or Nano Banana Pro?
Both accept up to — tokens, so context is not a differentiator here.
Should I use Ideogram 4.0 Turbo or Nano Banana Pro?
Pick Ideogram 4.0 Turbo for legible text inside images. Pick Nano Banana Pro for multi-image compositing and iterative edits. If cost dominates the decision, Ideogram 4.0 Turbo wins; if you need the capability ceiling, benchmark both on your own evals before committing.