Imagen 4
google/imagen-4Photorealistic image generation with industry-leading text rendering.
Model overview
Unit price
—
quoted on request
Output price
—
quoted on request
Weekly volume
—
tokens / week
Open weights
No
API only
Capabilities
0
of 11 tags
Description
Imagen 4 is an image model from Google. Webparam does not stock this model yet and can source it on request — tell us what you need it for and we will come back with availability and a price. Google’s stated focus is frontier multimodality at planetary scale. The weights are not published, so it is API-only.
Capabilities
No capability tags apply to Imagen 4: it is a single-purpose image endpoint with no tool, schema or streaming surface.
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Best-in-class text in images
- Photorealism
- Wide style range
Weaknesses
- Instructed editing trails Seedream
- Per-image price above Seedream
Pricing
| Rate | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Unit price | — quoted on request | — |
This model is not provisioned yet; the rate is quoted on request.
Supported features
| Feature | Support |
|---|---|
| Tool calling | Not supported |
| JSON mode | Not supported |
| Streaming | Not supported |
| Vision input | Not supported |
| Audio input | Not supported |
| Long context | Not supported |
| Open weights | Not supported |
| Reasoning | Not supported |
| Fine-tunable | Not supported |
| Batch | Not supported |
| Caching | Not supported |
Example use cases
Marketing visuals
Concept art
Product mockups
Comparison
Compare against anything →| Attribute | Imagen 4 | Seedream 4.0 | Nova Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input price | R0.00 | R0.00 | R0.00 |
| Output price | — not charged | — not charged | — not charged |
| Tool calling | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| JSON mode | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Vision input | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Open weights | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Prompt caching | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
Best value in each row is highlighted. Blank cells are facts the supplier does not publish, not zeroes.
Provider information
View Google →Google · Mountain View, United States · est. 1998 (DeepMind model era from 2023)
Google DeepMind's Gemini line is natively multimodal (text, vision and audio in one system) backed by custom TPU infrastructure nobody else can match. Veo and Imagen lead generative media, and Gemini's long-context engineering set the 1M-token standard the industry chased.
Recent releases
Documentation
Frequently asked questions
Usage is billed at R0.00 per image. Every figure on this page is an illustrative placeholder.
No. Imagen 4 is served through its provider's API only; the weights are not published, so self-hosting is not an option.
Seedream 4.0 is the closest neighbour in the catalogue, with — of context at R0.00 per image in. Put both in a comparison before wiring a fallback chain, so the trade-off is a decision rather than a default.