Diwali greeting set on Ideogram 4.5: 12 designs, 3 ratios, $2.70

Twelve Diwali greeting designs, each in 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16, make 36 images, and on ideogram/ideogram-v4.5 at medium quality that is about $2.70 on Sume: 36 times $0.075. Low-quality drafts of the same set cost $1.35, and a high-quality final pass on your three best designs in all three ratios adds about $2.48.

Greeting art is text-heavy, so a model that draws lettering well is the usual pick. Sume's row lists 15 aspect ratios, including all three used here.

Cost by quality

Ideogram 4.5 prices by quality, not by size. Fal's list is $0.03, $0.06 and $0.22 per image, and Sume bills list times 1.25.

A two-pass plan

• Pass 1: generate all 12 designs at 1:1 and quality: "low": 12 images, $0.45.
• Pick the best 4 and rerun each at medium in all three ratios: 12 images, $0.90.
• Spend high only on the single design you will print or pay to promote: 3 ratios, $0.825.
• Total for the plan: about $2.18, below the all-medium $2.70.

Prompt notes

Put the greeting words in quotes and keep them short. Name the script and size ('large centered text'), the palette (marigold, deep teal, gold) and any symbol ('a lit diya'). Check spelling on every image by eye, as text rendering is good, not perfect. Avoid printing a date unless you have confirmed it.

For 9:16 and 4:5, restate where the text goes, because the layout changes with the ratio.

Request

One call per design and ratio:

{
  "model": "ideogram/ideogram-v4.5",
  "prompt": "Diwali greeting card, a lit diya, marigold petals, text 'Happy Diwali' in gold lettering",
  "aspect_ratio": "4:5",
  "resolution": "1K",
  "quality": "medium"
}

Sending the set to the client

Name files by design and ratio, for example 'diya-4x5-medium', and keep the low-quality drafts in a separate folder so approvals never mix them up. Share the 1:1 versions first; they are quick to judge and cheap to redo. Once a design is approved, run the other two ratios, so you never pay for ratios of a rejected design.

Record the usage.cost of each call. At the end, the sum should match the table above, and any difference points to a retry you can explain.

Checklist for festival art

Check that every symbol suits the occasion and the audience, and have a native reader proof the lettering. If the card will run as an ad, check the platform's text rules for the placement. These steps cost no credits, and a typo caught here saves a re-render at medium or high quality.

Keep one master prompt and change only the greeting line and the ratio instructions. A set that shares a prompt tends to share a look.

What Sume does not do

Sume does not accept output_format on this row; the provider selects it. Sume also does not choose the quality for you: if you omit quality, the request runs at medium, so a draft run needs low set explicitly.