After switching from Bing AI to Ideogram, something broke. Then something got better.

I treated both like sources and checked their work, not their pitch.

On the task I actually had, Ideogram renders text inside images without the usual garbage Bing AI free and wired straight into search

What Ideogram does best: renders text inside images without the usual garbage

What Bing AI does best: free and wired straight into search cites its sources inline instead of guessing

The catch on Ideogram: higher-res exports cost extra And Bing AI? it drops the thread faster than you'd like

My call: reach for Ideogram when renders text inside images without the usual garbage, and Bing AI when free and wired straight into search. They cover different days, and pretending otherwise is how people end up paying for both and using neither.