Recraft
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Recraft, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Recraft's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pro 2k | — | 2,000 credits |
| Pro 4k | — | 4,000 credits |
| Pro 8k | — | 8,000 credits |
| Free | Free | limited credits · 3 generations per style daily · 3 uploads daily · 2 images per generation · public, non-commercial images |
| API V4.1 Flash | $0.01, paid once | about 1.3-second generation · raster output · per image |
| Basic | $12 a month | 1,000 credits/month · private generations · commercial rights · external models · advanced tools · monthly |
| Teams | $18 a month | 2,000 credits/month per seat · shared workspace · shared styles · centralized billing · SSO · 24/7 support · per seat monthly |
| Pro | $20 a month | 2,000 credits/month · 4,000, 8,000 and 16,000-credit tiers · video generation · priority generation · monthly |
The facts
Each one read from Recraft's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- API authentication
- API access uses bearer tokens created in the user profile, and generated image URLs remain valid for about 24 hours.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API capabilities
- The REST API supports raster and vector generation, inpainting, outpainting, background operations, vectorization, upscaling, styles and asynchronous batch workloads.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API pricing
- API usage is prepaid in non-expiring API Units, with published per-operation charges and non-refundable purchases.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API SDKs
- Documentation provides cURL, Python requests, Python OpenAI-SDK and JavaScript examples, plus an MCP integration and Claude Code skill.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Brand styles
- Users can create reusable styles from up to ten reference images and apply those styles to later generations.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Commercial use
- limitedchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Data deletion limitation
- Recraft says it can permanently delete account data on request but cannot automatically detect personal information embedded in user image inputs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation covers endpoints, models, parameters, pricing, limits, prompt guidance, SDK clients, MCP and trust/security topics.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding news: Series A
- TechCrunch reported on January 17, 2024 that Recraft raised a $12 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding news: Series B
- TechCrunch reported on May 5, 2025 that Recraft raised a $30 million Series B led by Accel, after passing $5 million ARR and 4 million users.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Image editing
- Available editing operations include image-to-image changes, inpainting, outpainting, erasing regions, background removal and background replacement.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Image generation
- The service creates photorealistic images, illustrations, logos, posters, product visuals and social-media assets from prompts or references.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Infinite canvas
- The product includes an infinite canvas with real-time collaboration for arranging and iterating visual assets.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Recraft is proprietary; its developer terms grant a limited, revocable API-use licence and state that services are licensed rather than sold.checked 15 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser integration
- The Chrome extension generates or edits images from webpages and can insert results into Google Docs, Google Slides and Gmail.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Android credit and moderation complaints
- Google Play reviewers report inaccurate prompts that waste credits, high pricing and content moderation blocking some non-pornographic action scenes.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founding and headquarters
- Recraft says it was founded in the United States in 2022 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The Chrome Web Store lists the extension developer as Recraft, Inc.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company scale
- Recraft says it has more than 3 million users in 200 countries and has generated over 350 million images.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2022checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdomchecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Limit: billing and support complaints
- Trustpilot reviewers repeatedly complain about failed generations consuming credits, difficult cancellations or refunds, separate API billing and automated support responses.checked 15 Oct 2026
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