Ideogram 4.0 vs Nano Banana Pro: Text Rendering Showdown

When Ideogram 4.0 launched a few days ago, the headline claim was bold: the best text rendering of any image model, open weights included. As someone who looks at AI image output all day, I have learned to treat “best text rendering” claims with suspicion, because the bar moved a lot in the last year. Google’s Nano Banana Pro now renders multilingual text and complex layouts that would have been…