Adobe Firefly vs Recraft

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan: Adobe Firefly — $9.99/mo vs $10/mo for Recraft
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: Both have one
Best fit: Adobe Firefly: Teams working inside Photoshop, Illustrator or Premiere who want generation in place · Recraft: Designers who need editable SVG icons, logos marks and illustrations rather than raster approximations
Platforms: Adobe Firefly: Web, iOS, Android · Recraft: Web, Figma plugin

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

Adobe FireflyAdobe generative models with commercial licensing terms

RecraftRaster and editable vector generation with reusable brand styles, a design canvas, Figma plugin and API

Side by side

Fact	Adobe Firefly	Recraft
Category	Text-to-Image Generators	Icons, Stickers & Illustrations
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$9.99/mo	$10/mo
Public API	Yes	Yes
Trust score	87 / 100	91 / 100
Platforms	Web, API, iOS, Android	Web, API, Figma plugin
Company	Adobe Inc.	Recraft Inc.
Launched	2023	2022
Last verified	Sep 6, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Adobe Firefly

Pick Firefly when the indemnity and the Creative Cloud integration matter more than raw image quality, because on quality alone it trails Midjourney and the frontier models.

Pros

Trained on licensed and public-domain material with enterprise indemnity attached
Generative Fill inside Photoshop beats round-tripping through another tool
Produces editable vectors rather than only raster images
Standard image and vector generation is uncapped on paid plans

Cons

Image quality lags the leading standalone generators
Generative credits drain fast on video and premium partner models
Pricing is split confusingly between standalone plans and Creative Cloud bundles
Free tier watermarks output and allows very few credits

Recraft

The tool to reach for when the output has to be a real vector or has to match a style across fifty assets, which is where general image models fall apart. For one-off photorealistic images other models are at least as good, and the free tier is a showcase rather than a workspace since everything you make there is public and not yours commercially.

Pros

Native vector output that opens as editable SVG, not a traced raster
Saved styles keep a whole set of assets consistent
Canvas tools for mockups, background removal and inpainting, plus a Figma integration
API priced per image in prepaid units that never expire

Cons

Free-plan images are public and Recraft keeps the rights to them
Subscription credits do not roll over month to month
Vector generations cost twice the credits of raster ones
Plan table on the pricing page renders only in a browser; the docs carry the numbers

Which one fits

Choose Adobe Firefly if you need

Teams working inside Photoshop, Illustrator or Premiere who want generation in place
Brands that need the commercial-use indemnification Adobe offers enterprises
Vector and design work, where Firefly's editable vector output is unusual

Choose Recraft if you need

Designers who need editable SVG icons, logos marks and illustrations rather than raster approximations
Brand and marketing teams generating sets of assets in one saved style
Developers who want vector and raster generation plus editing behind one prepaid API