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Recraft

Verified Oct 16, 2026 Active
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Raster and editable vector generation with reusable brand styles, a design canvas, Figma plugin and API

vector generationtext to imagebrand styleicon generationFreemium · from $10/mo

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InputsTTextOutputsImagesWeb · API · Figma plugin
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Pricing

Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$10/mo
Billing
Monthly

Free plan with a limited credit allowance, public images, three uploads a day and two images per prompt. Basic is $10/month billed annually or $12 monthly for 1,000 credits; Pro starts at $16 annual or $20 monthly for 2,000 credits and scales to 16,000; Teams starts at $18 annual or $22 monthly per 2,000-credit seat with SSO. Subscription credits reset monthly without rollover, top-ups of 200 to 1,600 credits never expire, and the API is separate at $1 per 1,000 units: a V4 raster image is $0.04, a vector $0.08, V4.1 Flash $0.007.

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Overview

About Recraft

Recraft generates both raster images and editable SVG vectors from its own V4 and V4.1 models, and lets you save a style from reference images so a whole set of icons, illustrations or product shots comes out consistent. Around the generator sits a canvas with layout, mockup, background removal, inpainting and upscaling tools, a Figma integration, and an API that exposes the same models for raster, vector and editing jobs billed in prepaid units. The free plan keeps images public in the community gallery and limits uploads; paid plans make generations private and grant commercial rights. The company, Recraft Inc., was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in London.

Platforms
Web · API · Figma plugin
API
Yes
Last verified
Oct 16, 2026

Verified sources

  • Paid plans doc: Basic 1,000 credits at $12 monthly or $10 billed annually; Pro 2,000 credits at $20 or $16 annual, scaling to 16,000; Teams from $22 monthly or $18 annual per seat with SSO; all paid plans private generation and commercial rights; top-ups of 200 to 1,600 credits that never expire (15 October 2026)recraft.ai ↗
  • Free plan doc: limited credits, three uploads a day, two images per prompt, generated images public and may appear in the community gallery, no top-ups (15 October 2026)recraft.ai ↗
  • API pricing: $1 equals 1,000 units; V4 raster 40 units, vector 80; V4.1 raster 35, vector 80; V4.1 Flash 7 units; units do not expire and are non-refundable (15 October 2026)recraft.ai ↗
  • Pricing page: annual billing saves 20%, subscription credits reset each cycle without rollover, free-plan images owned by Recraft and public, paid plans grant ownership and commercial rights; API covers raster, vector, editing, background removal, inpainting and outpainting for models V2 through V4.1 (15 October 2026)recraft.ai ↗
  • Terms effective 11 August 2026 name Recraft Inc. with a San Francisco notice address under New York law; about page says founded in the US in 2022, headquartered in London, over 3 million users, Figma integration and models API (15 October 2026)recraft.ai ↗
Fact check

Is Recraft legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered
Jun 27, 2022 (4 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 15, 2026
TLS certificate
Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 15, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
Last checked
Oct 16, 2026The site answered
On the market since
2022The vendor's own material, read by us
Operated by
Recraft Inc., United KingdomOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of Recraft

high confidence

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

Best for

  • 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

Not for

  • Hobbyists who expect private, commercially usable output on the free plan
  • Photorealistic portrait or product photography as the main job

Watch out: Commercial rights apply only to images made while subscribed, and vector output burns credits at double the raster rate, so size the plan on vector volume, not image count.

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