37 menu item photos on Ideogram 4.5: cost by quality

37 menu item photos on Ideogram 4.5 cost $1.39 at low quality, $2.78 at medium and $10.18 at high on Sume. high is 7.3 times the price of low, and size does not change it.

A restaurant reprints its menu each season and wants a photo for every dish.

What does each quality cost?

On Sume, Ideogram 4.5's quality field sets the price: low, medium or high. If you send no quality, the request runs at medium. The table prices this job at each tier next to two flat-price image models, from Sume's rate card as read on 2026-10-10.

How to pick a tier

Use the cheap tier to settle composition, then rerun only the keepers at a higher tier.

• Draft all 37 at low: $1.39.
• Rerun about a quarter (9 images) at high: $2.48, for a combined $3.86.
• Going straight to high for every image costs $10.18.
• Ideogram 4.5 takes 1K or 2K for resolution; the Sume docs state that image size does not change the per-image price (read 2026-10-10).

A request that runs

Send quality as low, medium or high. A request that finishes inside 30 seconds answers 200 with URLs; otherwise 202 with a job.

import os
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.sume.com/v1/images",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SUME_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "model": "ideogram/ideogram-v4.5",
        "prompt": "menu item photos, clean layout",
        "n": 4,
        "quality": "low",
        "resolution": "1K",
        "aspect_ratio": "4:5",
    },
    timeout=60,
)
print(r.status_code)
body = r.json()
if r.status_code == 200:
    for item in body["data"]:
        print(item["url"])
else:
    print(body)

Where to go next

See every AI model on Sume, how Sume pricing works and the API quickstart.