Recraft

Recraft is a text-to-image model and design platform built for designers, creatives, sellers, and teams. It allows users to generate both raster images and true vector graphics, providing capabilities for photorealism, vector generation, and custom styles. The platform provides a design environment aimed at producing production-ready graphic design, icons, logos, and illustration sets.

• Complex editable vector graphics generation
• Consistent style locking for asset sets
• Design-ready typography
• Photorealistic image generation
• Expressive and colorful illustrations
• Technically precise 3D generation
• Programmatic API access for image and vector generation, editing, background removal, inpainting, outpainting, batch jobs, and asynchronous processing

Pros

• Generates true vector graphics alongside raster images for clean scaling on icons, logos, and illustrations
• Custom styles let teams lock in a consistent look across a whole asset set
• Paid plans grant full ownership and commercial rights for generated images while keeping them private from the community gallery
• Provides an API for developers building internal tools, customer-facing features, or high-volume visual pipelines

Cons

• Images generated on the Free plan are owned by Recraft, are publicly visible in the community gallery, and are not licensed for commercial use
• Subscription credits reset at the start of each billing cycle and unused credits do not roll over
• Top-up credits are only available to users on Basic and Pro plans
• Refunds are only available if the account has used fewer than 30 credits in total and the most recent payment was made within the past 30 days

Recraft fits professional designers, creatives, sellers, and teams looking to generate consistent brand illustrations, mockups, and scalable vector graphics. It also suits developers building automated visual workflows via its API. It is a poor fit for users seeking entirely free commercial asset generation without public sharing restrictions, as free plan outputs belong to Recraft and are posted publicly.

Recraft uses a freemium model with a free tier and three paid subscription options billed monthly or annually with a 20 percent savings. The Free plan costs $0 and includes limited free credits, basic editing tools, style creation, and public images with no commercial use. The Basic plan costs $10 per month billed annually at $120, providing 1,000 credits per month, commercial rights, private generations, and external model access. The Pro plan costs $16 per month billed annually at $192, offering 2,000 credits per month, video generation capabilities, and priority generation. The Teams plan costs $18 per month per seat billed annually at $211, providing 2,000 credits per month per seat, shared workspaces, centralized billing, and single sign-on.

Unlike standard text-to-image tools that primarily output raster formats, Recraft generates complex editable vector graphics that scale cleanly for professional design needs. It combines art direction with prompt understanding, allowing users to maintain consistent styles across entire asset sets rather than producing isolated pictures.

Recraft integrates programmatically via its API, which supports models across the V2, V3, V4, and V4.1 generations for tasks including image generation, vector generation, editing, background removal, inpainting, outpainting, batch jobs, and asynchronous processing.

Recraft is worth trying for designers, teams, and developers who need advanced text-to-image capabilities paired with editable vector graphics and API integration. Paid plans are recommended for users who require commercial rights and privacy for their generated assets. Free plan users should note that their creations remain public and owned by Recraft. The pricing page does not publish specific dollar amounts for its plans.