Minimalist Poster Models AI Generator
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Ideogram 4 Turbo gave us the only file that was already poster shaped, and it costs the same as the other two. We sent one flat colour travel poster brief to three models on August 26, 2026 and timed every request. All three charge 1 credit per image. Ideogram 4 Turbo took about 24 seconds and returned 1664 by 2496, a true 2 to 3 portrait format with the word HARBOUR set in the bottom band. Recraft V4.1 took about 14 seconds and produced the strictest three colour flat artwork, but as a square. QWEN Image 2.0 took about 12 seconds and delivered a photographic mockup of a printed sheet rather than the artwork itself. All three spelled the word correctly.
Side-by-side, same prompt
Every model below ran the identical prompt on PixelDojo so the outputs are directly comparable: “A minimalist travel poster of a single red sailboat on a flat blue sea, three flat colors, generous margins, the word 'HARBOUR' in small sans serif type at the bottom”
Ideogram 4 Turbo
24sThe only true poster proportion, 1664 by 2496, with HARBOUR letterspaced in the bottom band. 1 credit, about 24 seconds.
Recraft V4.1
14sStrictest flat colour of the three: cream ground, one cobalt block, one red boat mark. 1 credit, about 14 seconds, 1024 by 1024.
QWEN Image 2.0
12sLargest file at 2048 by 2048 and the crispest type, but it drew a printed sheet on a table instead of the flat artwork. 1 credit, about 12 seconds.
Margins, flat colour and type: the order they finished in
1. Ideogram 4 Turbo, 1 credit, about 24 seconds
Ideogram 4 Turbo was the only model that understood poster as a shape and not just a subject. Ours arrived at 1664 by 2496, a clean 2 to 3 portrait, with no size instruction from us. The top two thirds are a warm cream field, the bottom is a deep flat blue, and a small red sloop sits exactly on the line where they meet with its sails picked out in two tones of red. HARBOUR runs letterspaced in blue caps across a cream band at the very bottom, correctly spelled and evenly tracked. There is a light paper grain across the whole thing, which reads as print stock rather than noise. It was the slowest of the three at about 24 seconds, and it is still under half a minute. Skip it if you wanted strict flat vector shapes. The boat carries a little shading and the grain means this is a raster poster, not clean geometry, so a screen printer will want it redrawn.
2. Recraft V4.1, 1 credit, about 14 seconds
Recraft V4.1 read three flat colors most literally and built the most disciplined piece of design in the test. Cream ground. One solid cobalt rectangle for the sea with real margin on all four sides. One red sail and hull sitting on the top edge of that block. HARBOUR set below in widely letterspaced dark grey caps. Three colours, one mark, nothing else, and it came back in about 14 seconds. If your brief is Swiss poster restraint, this is the closest of the three, and Recraft also has an SVG variant if you want vector paths out instead of pixels. Ours came back at 1024 by 1024. Skip it if you need poster proportions without extra work, because square is not a poster shape and you will be extending the canvas afterwards. The boat mark is also the crudest of the three where the sail meets the edge of the blue block.
3. QWEN Image 2.0, 1 credit, about 12 seconds
QWEN Image 2.0 was the fastest at about 12 seconds and gave us the biggest file at 2048 by 2048, with the sharpest type of the three. HARBOUR is set in clean white caps and reads perfectly. The problem is what it wrapped around that type. Instead of the flat artwork it rendered a photograph of a printed sheet lying on a pale blue surface, complete with a drop shadow, paper texture and slightly lifted corners. The pale blue table is a fourth colour the brief did not ask for, and the sailboat itself is a large detailed illustration rather than a minimal mark. As a client presentation image that is genuinely useful. Skip it when you need the artwork itself. You cannot send a mockup to a printer, and cropping the sheet out of the photograph leaves you with a smaller, slightly perspective skewed poster.
One poster brief, three models, all priced the same. 1 credit each. Measured turnaround ran 12 to 24 seconds. Output sizes ran 1024 square to 1664 by 2496.
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Price was not a variable
All three models charge 1 credit per image, so this test came down entirely to what came back and how fast.
All three spelled the word
HARBOUR rendered correctly on every file. Type placement varied, but none of the three garbled the letters.
Only one gave poster proportions
Ideogram 4 Turbo returned 1664 by 2496 unprompted. The other two came back square, at 1024 and 2048 pixels.
How It Works
How the comparison was run:
One brief, sent unchanged
Each model got the same sailboat poster prompt at default settings, with no size instruction and no style preset. First result kept every time.
Timed and measured
We bracketed each submission with a timestamp and read the pixel dimensions off the delivered file. That is the source of the speed and size numbers.
Judged as print files
We asked three questions of each result: is the proportion usable as a poster, is the colour count honest, and is the type correct. The order follows the answers.
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Common Questions
Everything you need to know about Minimalist Poster Models
Which AI model is best for minimalist posters?
Ideogram 4 Turbo on this test. It was the only one that returned a true poster proportion, 1664 by 2496, with the type correctly placed in the bottom band, for the same 1 credit as the others. Pick Recraft V4.1 when you want strict flat colour, and QWEN Image 2.0 when you want a presentation mockup.
How much does one poster cost?
1 credit per image on all three models here. Price was identical across Ideogram 4 Turbo, Recraft V4.1 and QWEN Image 2.0, so the choice comes down to output shape and style.
Which one was fastest?
QWEN Image 2.0 at about 12 seconds, then Recraft V4.1 at about 14 seconds and Ideogram 4 Turbo at about 24 seconds. All three finished in well under a minute in the same session.
Do these models get the text right?
All three spelled HARBOUR correctly in our run and set it in clean sans serif caps. Where they differed was placement: Ideogram 4 Turbo put it in a bottom band, Recraft V4.1 set it below the artwork, and QWEN Image 2.0 placed it inside the blue block.
Can I get vector output instead of pixels?
Recraft has SVG variants alongside the standard image model, which return vector paths rather than a raster file. That is the route to take when the poster has to be resized for print without any quality loss.
Can I call these models from an API?
Yes. POST to /api/v1/models/ideogram-v4-turbo/run, /api/v1/models/recraft-v4.1/run or /api/v1/models/qwen-image-2.0/run with the same key and the same request shape. Switching models means changing one string.