Ideogram Reference Architecture

Overview

Define ownership and data flow for a production Ideogram integration. Keep user authorization, paid vendor authority, request validation, async state, event verification, content review, durable media, and audit evidence as explicit components.

Prerequisites

• Workload, tenant and identity model, data class, SLO, budget, region, and retention policy.
• Expected endpoint mix, input sizes, concurrency, publication destinations, and failure modes.
• Owners for billing, security, moderation, storage, operations, and vendor escalation.

Current Contract

The API uses server-side Api-Key, endpoint-specific multipart requests, sync and async generation, item-level safety, signed async webhooks, polling, and temporary asset URLs. Default capacity is 10 in-flight requests. These contracts require stateful application orchestration even when the product experience is synchronous.

Authentication

Place IDEOGRAM_API_KEY only in a private vendor adapter. The policy gateway authenticates application identities and authorizes tenant, use case, spend, input, output, and destination separately.