Recraft is an AI image generator and design tool for designers and marketers that outputs editable vectors, sold on credit-based plans and a per-image API.
Recraft turns a written prompt or a reference picture into finished graphics, from ad creative to icons, logos and illustrations. It is aimed at a problem designers hit in most generators: lettering that comes out legible, and a brand look that holds steady across a whole series. Recraft Inc., an independent company headquartered in London, builds the product along with the image models inside it. Work happens in the browser as Recraft Studio, alongside an iOS app and a developer API that shares the Studio login. Recraft Studio sets Recraft's own models beside third-party ones such as Nano Banana, Flux, GPT Image and Seedream, so a designer can switch engines without leaving the canvas. Styles capture the look of a handful of reference images and apply it to every new generation, with no training step. Editing covers Magic wand, inpainting, outpainting, background removal, Crisp upscale and Creative upscale. Vectorization turns a raster file into editable SVG, and Artistic level, custom color palettes and Extract prompt refine a result. Higher plans add video generation through models such as Kling, Veo and Seedance, and the Recraft API exposes generation and editing over REST with batch and asynchronous jobs. Recraft is built for professional designers, illustrators and marketers who need many on-brand images rather than a single picture. Freelancers and solo creators subscribe on one account, while studios and in-house teams share styles in a Teams workspace with central account management. Subscriptions come as a monthly allowance of credits, with top-up credits for busy months and a no-cost tier for personal experiments. Developers building customer-facing features or high-volume visual pipelines buy API units instead, paying per image or per editing request. Marketing teams use it to produce campaign visuals, stock-style images and product mockups in a consistent look. Brand designers generate icon sets and vector illustrations, then carry them into Figma or Framer through Recraft's own connections. Writers drop visuals into documents and decks with the Google Docs and Google Slides add-ons, and the Chrome extension brings generation into the browser tab. For a brand whose hundredth illustration has to match its first, Recraft holds the style fixed while the subject changes.
Pricing
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Free
Free
- Permanent free tier with limited free credits, no time limit
- 3 generations per style per day and 3 image uploads daily
- Up to 2 images per generation, Recraft models only, no parallel generation
- Personal use only; images are owned by Recraft, public in the community gallery and not licensed for commercial use
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Basic
$12 per month
$10 a month billed annually ($120 a year); $12 billed monthly
- 1,000 credits a month; unused subscription credits do not roll over
- Adds Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image, Flux and other image generation and editing models
- Commercial rights and private generations; unlimited image uploads and styles usage
- Custom color palettes, Magic wand, Creative upscale, Artistic level and Extract prompt
- Up to 20 images per generation and up to 5 parallel generations
- Credit top-ups sold separately; they never expire and are used once monthly credits run out
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Pro
$20 per month
$16 a month billed annually ($192 a year); $20 billed monthly
- 2,000 credits a month at the 2k credit tier; 4k, 8k and 16k credit tiers are also offered
- Everything in Basic plus video generation with Kling, Grok Imagine Video, Veo, Seedance and other models
- Full video generation controls, up to 10 parallel video generations and priority image generation
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Teams
$22 per month
$18 a seat a month billed annually ($211 a year per seat); $22 a seat billed monthly
- 2,000 credits a seat a month at the 2k credit tier; 4k, 8k and 16k credit tiers are also offered
- Everything in Pro plus a shared workspace, shared custom styles and centralized account management
- Top-up credits are shared across all seats; start by adding a workspace or contact sales
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Recraft API
Custom pricing
- Pay as you go with prepaid API units, bought separately from plan credits
- Image generation from $0.007 (V4.1 Flash) to $0.30 (V4.1 Pro Vector) per image; V4.1 and V4 Styles $0.035
- Raster editing per request; inpainting, image-to-image and background replacement $0.04, Creative upscale $0.25
- Background removal $0.01, vectorization $0.01, Crisp upscale $0.004, erase region $0.002 per request
- Vector image-to-image, inpainting and background replacement $0.08 per request
- API unit packages are non-cancellable and non-refundable except as required by law
Features
- Included: Text-to-image generation
- Included: Image-to-image transformation
- Included: Inpainting and generative fill
- Included: Outpainting canvas extension
- Included: Image upscaling and enhancement
- Included: Background removal
- Included: Negative prompt control
- Included: Seed and reproducibility control
- Included: Style presets and reference images
- Not included: Custom model or LoRA training
- Included: Batch image generation
- Included: Commercial use rights on paid plans
- Included: Content credentials or watermarking
- Included: Aspect ratio and resolution presets
- Included: Image generation API
- Included: Prompt history and asset gallery
- Included: Face and character consistency
- Not included: Adult content filtering
Additional Features
- Recraft Studio browser design canvas
- Recraft API for raster and vector generation over REST
- Editable SVG vector image generation
- Vectorization of PNG, JPG and WEBP images into SVG
- Custom styles built from reference images, no training step
- Text rendered at any size and length inside images
- Magic wand region editing
- Crisp upscale and Creative upscale
Best for
- Designers producing on-brand illustration and icon sets
- Marketers making ad creative and campaign imagery at volume
- Illustrators who need editable vector output
- In-house design teams sharing one style library
- Developers adding image generation to their own product
- Print-on-demand sellers creating original artwork
- Hobbyists exploring AI images for personal, non-commercial use
Use cases
- Generating ad creatives for a campaign
- Creating stock-style images
- Designing an icon set in one consistent style
- Drafting logo concepts
- Keeping a recurring character the same across a series
- Producing product mockups
- Making print-on-demand artwork
- Converting raster artwork into editable SVG
- Removing or replacing an image background
- Upscaling an image for print
- Extending an image beyond its original borders
- Automating image generation in a pipeline through the API
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