Recraft
Vector + raster image generation for designers
Overview
Recraft generates true vector (SVG) and raster images with an editing canvas and lockable brand styles — generate a style, then keep producing assets in it. The V4/V4.1 models (V4 Pro, May 2026) add 2K output; free-tier images stay public, with commercial rights reserved for paid plans.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 16 Sep 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Daily credit allowance
- Public gallery only
- 1,000 credits a month
- Commercial rights and private generations
- Up to 5 parallel generations
- 2,000 credits a month (larger options available)
- Video generation (Kling, Veo, Sora, Seedance and others)
- Up to 10 parallel generations
- 2,000 credits a month per seat
- Shared workspace and styles; SSO
- Premium 24/7 support
Use cases
What you can produce with Recraft
- Generate scalable SVG vector icons and logos directly from text prompts, exported as editable paths for Illustrator or Figma
- Build a brand style library (stored colour palette, line weights, visual identity rules) and batch-produce on-brand marketing illustrations that stay visually consistent across dozens of assets in a single session
- Create raster photorealistic product mockups and lifestyle imagery for e-commerce or social media campaigns
- Produce UI illustration sets (onboarding screens, empty states, error pages) in a unified visual style without retraining a custom model
- Vectorize uploaded raster images or rough sketches into clean, scalable SVG artwork using the built-in AI Vectorizer tool
- Upscale and retouch AI-generated or existing images via the integrated Creative Upscale and AI Eraser tools without leaving the canvas
- Call Recraft's image generation API or MCP integration directly from Claude, Cursor, or other AI agent workflows to automate asset production in code pipelines
Recraft's editable-SVG output and style-locking remain the real differentiator: for logos, icon sets and brand-consistent illustration, nothing mainstream matches it, and the V4/V4.1 models (V4 Pro added 2K output in May 2026) keep image quality competitive with generalists. Text rendering is reliably good. The catches are economic as much as technical: vectors cost double credits and often need anchor-point cleanup before delivery, users have reported credits burned on failed generations, and the free tier is unusable for real work — images are public and Recraft keeps commercial rights, so client work starts at the $10/month Basic plan. Support and uptime have wobbled before; a multi-day February 2025 outage went unexplained. English-first and globally available. For vector and brand asset production it's a strong pick; for pure photorealism, cheaper general-purpose models compete closely.
What people say
The SVG output is real — editable paths, not a raster trace — and that alone keeps Recraft on shortlists no general-purpose image model can join. Designers use it to lock a style (colours, line weights, a whole visual identity) and then batch-produce icons, illustrations and brand assets that match. The model line has moved fast: V3 topped the Artificial Analysis text-to-image leaderboard in October 2024, ahead of Midjourney and DALL-E 3, and V4 arrived in February 2026 with a Pro variant at 2048×2048, followed by V4.1 in May. Accel led a $30 million Series B in 2025.
Paying users' complaints are specific and consistent. A multi-day outage in February 2025 locked people out of finished work with no status updates, and support admitted it had no information. Billing threads document credits burned on failed generations. And the vectors, impressive as they are, routinely ship with redundant layers and far too many anchor points — budget cleanup time in Illustrator before anything goes to a client.
The economics deserve a close read. A raster image costs whatever the chosen model charges, a vector 2 to 12 credits and a creative upscale 20, so the 1,000 credits on the $10/month Basic plan (billed annually) run out quicker than the number suggests. More important: free-tier images are public and Recraft keeps ownership with no commercial rights, which makes the free plan a demo, not a working tier. For brand and vector production it's one of the most distinctive tools going; for photorealism alone, cheaper generalists compete hard.
Above Basic, Pro costs $16 a month billed annually for 2,000 credits and adds video generation from partner models, and Teams costs $18 a seat. Paid plans also include Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image and Flux. Subscription credits reset each cycle while top-ups never expire, and refunds are possible within 30 days only if almost no credits were used.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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