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Serving sub-second Ideogram v4 without quality loss

calendar_today July 9, 2026 person Kaan Akan domain fal-ai

At @fal we serve Ideogram V4 at high speed. At 1K resolution, a generation that used to take 2.75 s now renders in 0.44 s, a 6x speedup with no visible quality loss. We got there by pushing the cost of a generated image down on every axis

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