Ideogram Terms of Service

This is Ideogram's legal rulebook for using its AI image generation service, covering everything from what you can create to who owns the images you generate. The most important thing to know: if you use the free plan, your generated images are public and Ideogram can use them to train its AI — you do not get commercial rights unless you pay for a subscription. If you want to keep your images private and use them commercially, you need to upgrade to a paid plan and review what that tier specifically allows.

Ideogram's Terms of Service is a clickwrap agreement governing access to Ideogram's AI-powered image generation platform, establishing a contractual relationship under the laws of Ontario, Canada, with disputes subject to binding arbitration administered by ICDR under AAA rules, with a class action waiver. The most significant user obligations include compliance with Ideogram's Usage Policies, a broad grant to Ideogram of a royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, and distribute user-submitted content and generated outputs for platform operation and AI model training, and a prohibition on users under 13 years of age. Notably, free-tier users receive no ownership of generated outputs by default (outputs are publicly visible and licensed to Ideogram), while paid subscribers obtain commercial use rights — a tiered IP ownership structure that materially differs from many creative tool competitors that grant all users ownership. The document engages COPPA (13-year age threshold), GDPR and Canadian PIPEDA (via Ontario governing law and privacy policy reference), CCPA (California resident data rights implied), and the EU AI Act (training data provisions implicated by broad content licensing); the mandatory arbitration clause with class action waiver creates significant exposure under FTC Act Section 5 and state consumer protection statutes. Material compliance considerations include ensuring the AI training data license is disclosed sufficiently to satisfy GDPR Art. 6 lawful basis requirements and that the class action waiver survives scrutiny in jurisdictions such as California and the EU where such waivers face heightened regulatory challenge.