Ideogram Deployment Boundary

Overview

Deploy Ideogram behind an application-owned server, queue, safety policy, and durable object store. Match runtime deadlines to sync or async behavior, keep paid authority out of clients, and preserve a reversible traffic path.

Prerequisites

• Frozen release SHA, platform owner, environment, traffic slice, SLO, and rollback target.
• Secret manager, queue or concurrency control, object storage, monitoring, and incident response.
• Positive credit, billing owner, approved synthetic canary, and retention policy.

Current Contract

Ideogram calls use https://api.ideogram.ai; default capacity is 10 in-flight requests. Async routes return generation_id and support webhook delivery with polling fallback. Image URLs expire, so deployment must download validated outputs into application storage before acknowledging durable completion.

Authentication

Inject IDEOGRAM_API_KEY into the server or worker identity and send it only as Api-Key. A public browser receives application-scoped authorization, never the vendor credential or direct vendor URL.