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AI image generator with Recraft V4

Recraft V4 is the top-ranked text-to-image model developed in collaboration with designers. Try the free AI image generator that helps creators turn ideas into visuals.

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Photorealism
Text rendering
Illustration
Mockups
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Sharper detail and higher realism

Captures natural lighting

V4 understands depth, shadow, and reflection, producing photo-quality images that look naturally illuminated.

Natural textures and depth

Capture realistic surfaces, reflections, and materials that stay lifelike in every environment with the AI picture generator.

Accurate faces in complex scenes

Maintains correct anatomy

AI photo generator - faces appear proportionally accurate and expressive, even in dynamic poses or group compositions.

Adapts to any context

Handles AI photos in diverse features, lighting, and camera angles while preserving natural realism and balance.

Where inspiration meets control

Exceptional details understanding

Describe what you want, down to subtle reflections or background patterns. V4 renders fine detail with high visual accuracy and consistency.

Create with natural language, not prompt syntax

V4 interprets plain-language descriptions directly, without requiring technical flags, ratios, or tuning parameters.

Handles small, long, and formatted text

Renders text with precision

From product packaging to menus to book covers, V4 renders AI-generated text with total accuracy. Typography stays clean and balanced, even on intricate compositions.

Generates text in most languages

V4 reads descriptions the way you write them, interpreting detailed scenes, multiple subjects, and lighting conditions with accuracy. V4 produces accurate text across most languages and scripts, maintaining proper spacing, alignment, and visual clarity.

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Recraft V4 models

There are four versions of the Recraft V4 model. All model versions are included on every plan, including the Free plan. Paid plans include commercial rights, and all V4 models are available via API.

Recraft V4
Generates high-quality raster images, perfect for fast concepting, visual exploration, and general creative work.
Recraft V4 Pro
Delivers super resolution and finer detail, producing lifelike lighting, anatomy, and realism across complex compositions.
Recraft V4 Vector
Creates clean, scalable vector graphics in seconds, ideal for icons, logos, and quick illustrative concepts.
Recraft V4 Pro Vector
Generates production-grade vector illustrations with smooth paths and accurate geometry, ready for print or detailed design work.
Up to 30 free image generations per day

Wide creative range

Supports every visual format

Create photorealistic images, illustrations, logos, or vector art. All AI art creation from a single model.

Generate endless variations

Produce multiple high-quality results from one text description, each offering a unique visual direction while staying true to your concept.

Remarkable vector generation

Creates editable SVGs

Recraft's vector generation model is capable of producing professional-grade, fully editable vector graphics.

Delivers clean geometry

Each vector output features smooth paths and organized layers for export for print and web projects, or further editing.

Lottie files for animations

Vectors can be exported as Lottie files, enabling smooth, scalable animations for web and interface design.

Create clean SVG files with Recraft V4 Vector and V4 Pro Vector

Try generating editable and scalable vectors with the new Recraft models.

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Vector logo
Icon set
Vector illustration
Vector art
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AI image generation for everyone

Create high-quality images, vectors, and design assets for any creative workflow.

For creators and artists
Explore ideas quickly with high-quality images from natural language prompts. Experiment with styles, develop concepts, and turn ideas into remarkable visuals in seconds.
For print-on-demand sellers
Create product-ready images, mockups, graphics, and ads quickly. Generate consistent, high-resolution visuals for testing designs, launching products, and scaling a storefront, with 300 DPI output designed for CMYK print workflows.
For teams
Create on-brand visuals with shared workspaces, controlled access, and high-quality output for global campaigns. Support collaborative workflows across marketing, brand, and product teams.
For graphic designers
Generate illustrations, icons, logos, and vector artwork with clean paths and reliable structure. Expand creative range while maintaining professional standards for quality and editability.
Up to 30 free image generations per day

Describe every detail

Recraft V4 can handle long, detailed text-to-image prompts without losing structure or coherence. Describe every element, from complex lighting and multi-object scenes to cinematic atmosphere, and V4 translates it faithfully into a consistent, visually accurate image.

Below is an example of a long prompt consisting of more than three thousand characters, featuring a detailed description of over twenty different objects, atmosphere, styles, and lighting.

Epic ultra-detailed cinematic illustration of a colossal autonomous robotic shipyard during a heavy nighttime rainstorm. The scene is vast and monumental, viewed from a wide elevated cinematic angle, revealing an enormous industrial dock complex stretching deep into the background. The environment is entirely mechanical — no humans present.  Foreground: A large humanoid industrial robot stands on a metal rail platform, slightly hunched forward, actively welding a massive skeletal framework of a futuristic ship hull. The robot’s design is utilitarian and heavy: exposed mechanical joints, hydraulic pistons, rotating actuators, thick armored plates, visible cables and conduits running along its limbs. One robotic arm holds a welding torch emitting an intense white-blue arc of light, producing bright sparks that scatter outward, illuminating rain droplets mid-air. The other arm stabilizes the structure. Reflections of the welding flash shimmer across wet metal surfaces beneath the robot.  Surrounding the robot on the ground level are multiple spider-like autonomous machines: low-profile robotic vehicles with four to six articulated legs each. These spider machines crawl across flooded platforms and metal walkways, carrying tools, power cables, and glowing energy cores. Their movement feels coordinated and precise. Small red and amber indicator lights glow on their bodies, reflected in puddles on the rain-soaked floor. Some spider machines cling to vertical surfaces and scaffolding, emphasizing the vertical complexity of the environment.  Midground: A gigantic partially assembled ship hull dominates the center of the scene. Its skeletal metal ribs form a long arched structure extending into the distance, revealing intricate internal trusswork. Conveyor platforms, service vehicles, and spider robots move along both sides of the hull. Thick power cables snake across the ground, partially submerged in water, with ripples forming as rain strikes the surface. Steam and mist rise from warm machinery, mixing with rainfall and catching the light.  Numerous towering robotic crane arms line both sides of the dock. These cranes have long segmented arms with rotating joints and heavy mechanical claws, positioned at different angles as if frozen mid-operation. Some cranes loom overhead, silhouetted against the stormy sky, while others reach toward the ship hull. Their shadows overlap across platforms, creating dense geometric patterns.  Background: The shipyard expands into massive industrial superstructures: stacked platforms, catwalks, gantries, and towering assembly bays disappearing into atmospheric haze. Additional colossal robotic arms operate in the far distance, barely visible through rain and mist. Storm clouds churn above, with faint lightning illuminating the clouds from within. Industrial floodlights mounted high above cast cold white beams downward, cutting through rain and fog in dramatic volumetric shafts.  Lighting and atmosphere: Complex cinematic multi-source lighting: cold blue-gray ambient storm light, harsh white industrial floodlights, warm orange warning lights, and intense blue-white welding flashes. Rain streaks are clearly visible, interacting with light. Wet surfaces produce realistic reflections and specular highlights. Volumetric fog and steam add depth and scale. Strong rim lighting outlines robots and machinery against darker backgrounds. Deep occlusion shadows fill recesses between structures.  Materials and detail: Hyper-detailed metal textures with scratches, rust stains, oil streaks, and weathering. Brushed steel, dark iron, carbon composites, and glowing energy elements coexist. Water droplets cling to surfaces, run along edges, and splash on impact. Every cable, bolt, and joint is visible.  Mood and scale: Monumental, industrial, dystopian, awe-inspiring. The scene emphasizes scale, automation, and precision — a world where massive machines endlessly construct without human presence.  Style: Ultra-detailed cinematic sci-fi illustration, hyper-realistic mechanical rendering, dramatic composition, strong depth layering (foreground robot → spider machines → ship hull → cranes → megastructures → stormy sky), high contrast, volumetric atmosphere, film-quality lighting, 8K ultra high resolution, no text, no characters, no stylization artifacts.

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From idea to final image, step by step

Apply a style
Create consistent visuals from curated styles or define your own aesthetic.
Describe your idea
Turn natural language into high-quality images with a model that understands long, detailed prompts.
Refine and explore
Generate coherent variations in seconds while keeping your original composition intact.
Edit with precision
Remove objects, expand scenes, or adjust details while preserving lighting, depth, and structure.
Recolor and restyle
Refine color palettes and visual mood with beautiful, balanced results.
Apply to mockups
Preview your visuals on products, ads, or brand assets to see how they look in context.
Upscale for final quality
Enhance clarity with Crisp Upscale or add creative depth using Creative Upscale.
Vectorize and export
Convert images into editable vectors or export in formats like SVG, PNG, PDF, or Lottie for any workflow.
Up to 30 free image generations per day

Teams

Recraft for Teams brings AI image collaboration and consistency to creative work.

Invite teammates, share styles, and generate commercial-ready visuals together in real time. All outputs include full commercial rights.

API access

Use Recraft’s API to seamlessly integrate high-quality AI visuals into your products, marketing workflows, and design pipelines at scale. Automate repetitive tasks, integrate output into design systems, or streamline content pipelines.

Consistency across your organization

Shared workspaces, palettes, and styles help teams maintain a unified look across campaigns, regions, and departments.

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What users say about Recraft

The best AI image generator on the market right now.

Tomas Laurinavicius,

Founder, Marketer, Designer & Writer

Very handy in my work. Enjoy creating illustrations with Recraft. Really love speed and the results. Highly recommend!

Alexander Karavaev,

Designer

Recraft is absolutely amazing when it comes to vector image generation. The UI is really polished and pretty intuitive and tutorials are also provided on the platform.

Daniele Manca,

Front End Engineer

I was impressed by all the styles available in Recraft, especially the creation of seamless patterns feature.

Daniela Muntyan,

Product Designer at Craft

Recraft plans and pricing

Flexible options for every creator

Recraft offers plans for any workflow, from quick experiments to full professional use.

Start on the Free plan with 30 daily credits renewed every 24 hours, or upgrade to a paid plan for higher credit limits, faster generation, image uploads, vector export, and access to advanced tools such as custom styles and private image generation.

All paid plans include full commercial rights.

Free

Explore Recraft's free AI image generator plan

What's included:

30 credits, renewed daily

Images are public

No commercial use

Upload up to 3 images per day

Up to 2 images per generation

No parallel generation

Basic AI-powered image editing tools

Custom styles and a ready-made Style library

No external models

Pro

The best AI generator for professionals. Get full ownership rights, faster outcomes, and precise control.

Everything in Free, plus:

From 1,000 credits, renewed monthly

Images are private

Commercial license for images created while subscribed

Unlimited styles usage

Unlimited image uploads

Up to 4 images per generation

Up to 10 parallel generations

Creative upscale — enhanced 4K upscaling

Extract prompts from images

External models, such as Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT-4o, Flux, and more

Custom color palettes

Artistic level control

Magic wand tool

Teams

AI image generation for teams, with advanced controls and support to manage your team

Everything in Pro plus:

9,000 credits per seat, renewed monthly

Shared workspace for all team members

Centralized account management

Premium 24/7 support

Single Sign-On (SSO)

FAQ

What is an AI image generator, and how does Recraft work?

An AI image generator turns text prompts into images. Recraft uses its top-ranked AI frontiers models to interpret natural language and produce high-quality photos, illustrations, vectors, and design assets with accurate lighting, composition, and detail.

Is Recraft a free AI image generator?

Yes. Recraft offers a Free plan with 30 daily credits renewed every 24 hours. You can generate images, vectors, mockups, and AI-edited photos at no cost.

Is Recraft the best free AI image generator for beginners?

Recraft is designed for everyone — creators, designers, marketers, and beginners — offering easy text-to-image generation, natural language understanding, and realistic results without technical prompting.

How does Recraft compare to other AI image generators?

Recraft V4 ranks among the highest on the Hugging Face Text-to-Image leaderboard, offering unmatched realism, accurate text, and vector precision.

Can I use Recraft to generate images in different languages?

Yes. Recraft  handles multilingual prompts and can generate accurate text across many languages and scripts.

How does Recraft handle safety and responsible use?

Recraft builds its image models with high safety standards to reduce the risk of harmful outputs, including NSFW content, biased imagery, and accidental copyright infringement. We use layered safeguards and ongoing testing to evaluate how our models behave in real-world use, not just in theory.

Recraft is AIUC-1 certified by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, an independent organization that audits deployed AI systems. AIUC-1 certification includes third-party technical testing across multiple risk categories and requires continuous reassessment rather than a one-time review. It focuses on how AI systems behave in practice, including accidental failure modes.

Can I generate vector images?

Yes. Recraft is the only platform that produces true, editable SVG vectors suitable for logos, icons, and illustration workflows.

Can I use the AI-generated images for commercial purposes?

Yes. Paid plans include full commercial rights and ownership for all images created while subscribed. Free plan images are public and not licensed for commercial use.

What file formats can I export?

Recraft supports SVG, PNG, JPG, PDF, TIFF (up to 300 DPI CMYK), and Lottie formats for both raster and vector outputs.

How are credits used?

Each generation or edit uses credits. Different actions (image generation, editing, upscaling) consume varying credit amounts depending on complexity and output type.

Does Recraft offer an API for AI image generation?

Yes. Recraft’s API lets developers generate images, vector graphics, and AI-edited assets programmatically. It is designed for teams that need scalable image generation or automation.

Does Recraft support team collaboration?

Yes. Recraft for Teams allows multiple users to collaborate, share styles, and manage brand assets together.

Can I edit existing images?

Yes. You can erase, outpaint, recolor, and restyle existing images directly within Recraft without needing to start from scratch.

Can I create high-resolution AI photos for print?

Yes. V4 Pro and V4 Pro Vector generate high-detail images suitable for print, branding, product packaging, and other professional uses.