Ideogram 4.0 Turbo vs Nano Banana 2
Ideogram's Ideogram 4.0 Turbo and Google's Nano Banana 2 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 2.2x less on a blended workload, and it suits legible text inside images. Nano Banana 2 justifies its premium when you need fast generation with multilingual text.
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
$0.07 / $
/ image (input / output)
Renders in roughly 1.4 seconds and handles text in over 30 languages including non-Latin scripts, which is unusual. Google bills it by output tokens rather than per image, so the price scales with resolution — a 4K render costs more than three times a 512px one.
Input price
Nano Banana 2 is 2.2x the price than Ideogram 4.0 Turbo on input tokens.
Specification comparison
| Attribute | Ideogram 4.0 Turbo | Nano Banana 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Input (/ image) | $0.03 | $0.07 |
| Output (/ image) | — | — |
| Cached input | — | — |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Native reasoning | No | No |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — |
| Relative latency | low | low |
| Open weights | No | No |
| API model ID | ideogram-v4-turbo | gemini-3.1-flash-image |
| Status | stable | stable |
Nano Banana 2: 1024² render. Priced at $60 per million output tokens, so cost tracks resolution: $0.045 at 512px, $0.067 at 1K, $0.101 at 2K, $0.151 at 4K. Batch mode halves all of these.
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 2 if…
- Interactive generation in product UIs
- Non-Latin script text in images
- Rapid creative iteration
- Image editing and compositing
Frequently asked
Is Ideogram 4.0 Turbo or Nano Banana 2 cheaper?
Ideogram 4.0 Turbo is cheaper. On a blended 3:1 input-to-output workload it costs about 2.2x less than Nano Banana 2.
Which has the larger context window, Ideogram 4.0 Turbo or Nano Banana 2?
Both accept up to — tokens, so context is not a differentiator here.
Should I use Ideogram 4.0 Turbo or Nano Banana 2?
Pick Ideogram 4.0 Turbo for legible text inside images. Pick Nano Banana 2 for fast generation with multilingual text. If cost dominates the decision, Ideogram 4.0 Turbo wins; if you need the capability ceiling, benchmark both on your own evals before committing.