Teal is the cheaper option. Ideogram is the one I'd pay for.

I cared about one thing: could I trust the output without re-doing it? My call: reach for Ideogram when renders text inside images without the usual garbage, and Teal when is a free builder with a built-in job tracker. They cover different days, and pretending otherwise is how people end up paying for both and using neither.

What Ideogram does best: renders text inside images without the usual garbage is fast and cheap for social graphics

What Teal does best: is a free builder with a built-in job tracker

The catch on Ideogram: higher-res exports cost extra And Teal? a few features are teasers

One honest note: the reasoning I could actually trace is where Ideogram and Teal both still need a human in the loop. I stopped expecting either to be fire-and-forget.