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By the toolist.ai editors. Researched from Recraft's own pages and hands-on tests published by others, not hands-on tested by toolist.ai. Updated October 9, 2026.
Recraft review: pricing, features and what testers found
Recraft is an AI image studio built for designers: its own models make both raster images and editable vector (SVG) graphics, with editing, mockups and other companies' models in the same canvas. Paid plans start at $12 a month for 1,000 credits.
Our take
Recraft is the pick for designers who need logos, icons and brand graphics as editable vectors: Zapier's Harry Guinness named it the best AI image generator for graphic design, and Kittl, a design app that offers Recraft V4 in its own editor, found in about 200 prompts on V4 and V4 Pro that first attempts were usable without re-prompting and its SVG output was made of real editable paths. For raw image quality it trails the leaders: on October 9, 2026 its best model ranked 29th of 168 in Artificial Analysis's blind votes. Paid plans start at $12 a month for 1,000 credits, about 500 V4.1 images, and free-plan images are public and cannot be used commercially.
Based on Recraft's published plans and the hands-on tests linked below, not on a test of our own.
Good for
- Designers making logos, icons, illustrations and brand assets they want as SVG files
- Marketing and brand teams that need many images in one consistent style
Watch out for
- Free-plan images are public, belong to Recraft and cannot be used commercially; paid-plan images stay yours after you cancel.
- Credits per image depend on the model: V4.1 uses 2, V4.1 Pro 10 and Nano Banana Pro 32, so Basic's 1,000 credits are about 500 V4.1 images but about 31 Nano Banana Pro images. Chat-mode messages also cost credits, more as a conversation grows.
- Monthly credits do not roll over; top-ups cost $2 per 200 credits and never expire.
- Refunds are at Recraft's discretion, only within 30 days of your last payment and only if you used no credits since or fewer than 30 credits ever; API units are non-refundable.
What Recraft does
- Recraft's own V4.1 models (Flash, standard, Pro and Utility) plus external models such as Nano Banana, GPT Image, Flux and Ideogram
- Native vector (SVG) generation and a vector editor for points, curves and colors, on every plan including Free
- Custom styles from up to 10 reference images, image sets of up to six prompts, and color palettes for consistent brand visuals
- Editing: change or erase an area, outpaint, remove or replace backgrounds, upscale, vectorize and make product mockups
- Video from a prompt or images with models such as Veo 3.1, Sora 2 and Kling 3, on Pro and Teams plans
- A pay-as-you-go API from $0.007 an image with V4.1 Flash, or $0.035 with V4.1
Price
Free plan: 30 credits a day (about 15 Recraft V4.1 images) and up to two images per prompt; free images are public, owned by Recraft and not licensed for commercial use.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Includes | Price per image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $12 | $10 | 1,000 credits a month, about 500 Recraft V4.1 images at 2 credits each; private images with ownership and commercial rights, external models, top-ups | $0.024 |
| Pro (2,000 credits) | $20 | $16 | 2,000 credits a month, about 1,000 V4.1 images; adds video generation | $0.020 |
| Pro (4,000 credits) | $40 | $32 | 4,000 credits a month, about 2,000 V4.1 images; video generation | $0.020 |
| Pro (8,000 credits) | $80 | $64 | 8,000 credits a month, about 4,000 V4.1 images; video generation | $0.020 |
| Pro (16,000 credits) | $160 | $128 | 16,000 credits a month, about 8,000 V4.1 images; video generation | $0.020 |
| Teams (per seat) | $22 | $17.58 | Minimum 2 seats; 2,000 credits a month per seat (about 1,000 V4.1 images), not shared between members; SSO, shared styles, priority support. Seats with 4,000, 8,000 or 16,000 credits cost $44, $88 or $176 a month | $0.022 |
Price per image is our calculation: the monthly-billing price divided by what the plan includes, assuming you use all of it. It is not a measured cost.
Prices last checked: 2026-10-09 on Recraft's pricing page. Full breakdown: Recraft pricing.
Price history
No price change since we first recorded these prices on October 9, 2026. We re-check them every week and list each change here.
What hands-on testers found
We have not tested Recraft ourselves. These are the published tests we found that used it hands-on, newest first; follow the links for the full reviews.
Artificial Analysis Image Arena · October 9, 2026
What they tested: Blind preference votes between text-to-image models, read on the day we checked.
- Recraft V4.1 Utility ranked 29th of 168 models (Elo 1022).
- The standard Recraft V4.1 ranked 55th (Elo 989) and V4.1 Flash 77th (Elo 957).
Their score: Best Recraft model ranks 29 of 168
Zapier · Harry Guinness · updated August 3, 2026
What they tested: Recraft as one of eight picks in a roundup of AI image generators, judged on ease of use, controls, pricing and image quality.
- He called it probably the most impressive app on the list, with graphic design features he rated second to none.
- Image sets keep one style and color palette across many prompts, and work exports as SVG as well as JPG and PNG.
- It is more complicated to use than some of the other apps.
Their score: Best AI image generator for graphic design
Kittl · June 1, 2026
What they tested: About 200 prompts on Recraft V4 and V4 Pro from April to May 2026, covering product photos, posters, logos, icons and vectors, through Kittl and the Recraft API. Kittl offers both models in its own design app, so this is not an independent test.
- First-try quality scored 5 of 5, the best of the models compared; outputs were usable without re-prompting.
- Native SVG output gave real editable paths for logos and icons, with no tracing.
- At about 10 seconds an image it was slow, counts above five or six items were unreliable, and characters drifted between scenes.
Their score: 4.26/5, 5th of 8 image models
Tom's Guide · Christoph Schwaiger · August 31, 2025
What they tested: The free plan: a studio photo from a prompt with Recraft V3, area edits on an uploaded room photo, and a label mockup on a product photo.
- The V3 image showed potential but was not ready to use; ChatGPT did better with the same prompt.
- An area edit added the requested whiteboard text but ignored his three other requests.
- The mockup label followed the jar's shape, but its placement did not look physically right, and free credits ran out quickly.
What users say
- Trustpilot: 1.8 out of 5 from 38 reviews
Test result
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Sources
- Recraft pricing (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft plans and prices feed (the data the pricing page shows) (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Paid plans (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Free plan (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Credits (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Commercial rights and ownership (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Billing and invoices (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Teams overview (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: External models (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Recraft models introduction (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Recraft V4.1 (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Generating multiple images (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: Vector Editor (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft docs: How to generate a video (checked 2026-10-09)
- Recraft API pricing (checked 2026-10-09)
- Zapier: The best AI image generators (checked 2026-10-09)
- Kittl: Kittl review of Recraft V4 (checked 2026-10-09)
- Kittl home page (the AI models in its editor, including Recraft V4 and V4 Pro) (checked 2026-10-09)
- Artificial Analysis: Text to image leaderboard (checked 2026-10-09)
- Tom's Guide: I used Recraft to generate AI images for free (checked 2026-10-09)
- Trustpilot: Recraft (checked 2026-10-09)