GlyPho 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: Recraft — $10/mo vs $16/mo for GlyPho
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: Recraft has one; not confirmed by us for GlyPho
Higher Trust score: Recraft — 91 vs 70 for GlyPho
Best fit: GlyPho: Designers who need a matching icon or illustration set, not one-off images · Recraft: Designers who need editable SVG icons, logos marks and illustrations rather than raster approximations

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

GlyPhoGenerates matching sets of editable SVG icons, logos, and illustrations from one text prompt and a chosen style preset.

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

Side by side

Fact	GlyPho	Recraft
Category	Icons, Stickers & Illustrations	Icons, Stickers & Illustrations
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$16/mo	$10/mo
Public API	Not confirmed	Yes
Trust score	70 / 100	91 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web, API, Figma plugin
Company	GlyPho	Recraft Inc.
Launched	—	2022
Last verified	Sep 1, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

GlyPho

GlyPho's specific pitch, style presets that keep a whole icon or illustration set visually consistent, addresses a real pain point with prompt-based generators where every output looks like it came from a different artist. The free tier is thin, a single generation, so judging real output quality across a full set requires paying.

Pros

Style presets aimed specifically at cross-image consistency
True editable SVG output produced via a raster-to-vector pipeline, not just PNG
Export to React component code for developers
Companion image-to-SVG and SVG-compression tools included

Cons

Free tier limited to one generation direction
Paid pricing requires annual billing to hit the advertised $16/mo rate

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 GlyPho if you need

Designers who need a matching icon or illustration set, not one-off images
Teams wanting editable SVG rather than flattened PNG output

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