Graded F on resilience. In Vannus's assessment it has not disclosed which model it runs — a thin layer over someone else's foundation model.
Text-to-image generation notable for rendering legible text and typography inside images, used for posters, logos and ad creative. Recorded deliberately thin on sovereignty: the privacy policy identifies 'Ideogram AI' as controller but publishes no registered address or country of incorporation, states only that information may be stored and processed outside the user's country of residence, does
Not disclosed. Ideogram does not publish which model it runs, so this criterion is excluded and the grade rests on what we could verify. We say so rather than guess.
Not yet assessed. We publish a sovereignty position only where the vendor documents one — we do not infer it from a domain or a company name.
Vannus grades Ideogram against nine dimensions of trust — data sovereignty, training privacy, compliance posture, operational resilience, exit portability, and more. The heaviest criterion asks whether the tool builds its own AI or resells someone else's model; where the vendor discloses it, the grade cites the vendor's own documentation. No paid placements — scoring is walled off from affiliate revenue. See the methodology →