Gemini 3 Pro Image vs Ideogram V3

This prompt demands multiple distinct text elements: a business name, a tagline, and an establishment date, all rendered in a hand-painted style that must look authentic while remaining readable. Text rendering has historically been one of image generation's most challenging problems.

In our testing, Ideogram V3 consistently produced more accurate text across multiple generations. The words rendered correctly, letter spacing looked natural, and the hand-painted aesthetic felt intentional rather than distorted. Gemini 3 Pro handled the overall composition and atmosphere well but occasionally produced variations in the text—close but not exact. For signage, packaging, or any use case where text must be production-ready, Ideogram's reliability advantage is significant.

This prompt describes a specific emotional moment with layers of meaning—"the moment just after" implies temporal awareness, "tension visible in their posture" requires understanding how body language communicates emotional states, and "things left unsaid" demands visual translation of abstract psychological concepts.

Gemini 3 Pro more consistently captured the narrative essence of such prompts. The figures' body language tended to convey the specific emotional tension described, the composition felt more deliberately storytelling-oriented. Ideogram produced competent office scenes but sometimes interpreted the prompt more literally—two people, papers, a window—without the same depth of emotional encoding in the visual language.

Logo design represents a high-stakes use case where text must be absolutely correct. This prompt requires clean, modern typography with a geometric element integrated into the letterforms—a specific design direction that demands both typographic accuracy and visual creativity.

Ideogram's training on typography-centric tasks showed here. The letterforms tended to be cleaner, the integration of the sound wave element more deliberate, and the overall design more immediately usable. Gemini produced interesting conceptual interpretations but occasionally took creative liberties with the letter shapes that, while visually appealing, would require significant refinement for commercial use.

This prompt requires conceptual synthesis—transforming familiar objects (books, lamps) into organic counterparts while maintaining the logical relationships that make the scene coherent. It's not just describing visual elements but asking the model to understand and execute a creative metaphor.

Gemini 3 Pro's deeper semantic processing produced more unified interpretations of this kind of conceptual prompt. The transformation felt internally consistent—the books-as-trees metaphor extended logically throughout the scene, with details that reinforced rather than contradicted the central concept. Ideogram produced visually competent fantasy library scenes but sometimes treated elements more independently rather than as parts of a coherent conceptual whole.

Menu boards represent a common text-heavy commercial use case. The prompt requires a header, multiple menu items with prices, and a specific aesthetic—all elements where text accuracy directly impacts usability. This is exactly the scenario where Ideogram's specialized training pays dividends.

At roughly a quarter of the cost, you can generate over four Ideogram images for every Gemini image. For text-heavy production work where accuracy is essential—menus, signage, packaging, event materials—this economic advantage compounds quickly. Reserve Gemini 3 Pro for conceptually complex prompts, image-to-image workflows, or final hero assets where maximum overall quality matters more than text accuracy alone.