Image generation

Recraft V4.1 (raster)

Name: Recraft V4.1 (raster)
Author: Recraft

Recraft's current raster model, released 14 May 2026, shipped in eight variants across Standard/Pro (higher resolution and finer detail for print) and Utility/Utility Pro (deliberately plain, predictable output for product mockups).

An image model by Recraft · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Weights: Not released
API: Yes
Commercial use: Permitted subject to conditions

Priced flat per image with no megapixel or token maths. Recraft's paid plans grant full ownership and commercial rights to generated images.

Commercial use — Permitted subject to conditions

Per Recraft's pricing page: 'Paid plans grant you full ownership and commercial rights for all images generated while subscribed.' Free-tier images are owned by Recraft and are not licensed for commercial use.

Depends on your plan tier. Per Recraft's pricing page: 'Paid plans grant you full ownership and commercial rights for all images generated while subscribed.' Free-tier images are owned by Recraft and are not licensed for commercial use

The conditions above were extracted from the licence notes recorded during research, and each one shows the sentence it came from so you can check the reading. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Recraft's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is strong: the figures came from pages we retrieved and read. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in: text, image
What it makes: image
Maximum resolution: not established
Aspect ratios: not established
Controls: image-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, style-reference, text-rendering, editing-by-instruction
Weights: Not released
API: Yes
Pricing: per image: V4.1 $0.035, V4.1 Pro $0.21, V4.1 Utility $0.035, V4.1 Utility Pro $0.21. API units are $1.00 = 1,000 units. Related ops: background removal $0.01, vectorization $0.01, crisp upscale $0.004, creative upscale $0.25, erase region $0.002, style creation $0.04.
Released or updated: 2026-05-14

Maximum resolution and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

Clear flat per-image and per-operation pricing across every endpoint
Explicit commercial-rights statement on paid plans
Utility variants give predictable, low-flair output for mockups

Weaknesses

Docs do not state maximum resolution even for the Pro variants
Pro tier at $0.21 is six times the Standard price
Aspect-ratio limits documented on a separate page we did not verify

Best for

Brand and design production where per-asset cost predictability and clean commercial rights matter.

Where the sources disagree

Recorded rather than resolved. Picking the tidier number would hide the fact that the vendor's own pages do not agree.

Recraft docs describe Pro as 'higher resolution' without a number; third-party sources describe the Pro variants as 4K. Left as null.

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

Conditioning and control: everything you hand the model besides noise names “outpainting”
Latent space: working at proxy scale names “token”

How to prompt it

Written for Recraft V4.1 (raster). See prompt craft for the full vocabulary and cinematic language for the lens, light and mood tables.

Recraft V4.1 prompt guidance
Clean graphic and vector-style design assets, logos, icons, flat illustrations, brand marks, controlled-palette visuals; the only model used for new logo marks.

Use --model_type vector for vector output, standard for raster-style graphics. One continuous prompt string per candidate, no bullets, ordered mark type to mechanism to shape logic to style register to palette behavior to composition to constraint tail. Never put hex, RGB or Pantone in the prompt, pass colours through the colors and background_color params. Never use lens, camera, lighting, depth of field, photoreali

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See it from the vendor

Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.