Recraft v3
Recraft v3 is an image generation model from Recraft, a design-focused image generator known for text rendering inside images and style-controlled output.
API Pricing
| Provider | Price /img |
|---|---|
| $0.040/img |
Prices updated daily. Last check: Sep 25, 2026
Model Details
General
- Creator
- Recraft
- Modalities
- Text
Capabilities
- Tool Calling
- No
- Open Source
- No
- Aliases
- recraft-ai/recraft-v3
Strengths & Limitations
Strengths
- Text-to-image generation aimed specifically at design output rather than generic image synthesis
- Recraft positions the v3 generation around rendering legible text inside generated images, a common weak point for image models
- Style control features intended to keep a consistent look across a set of generations
- A vector-oriented variant of Recraft v3 is published for design work that needs scalable output
- Available both through Recraft's own API and through third-party inference marketplaces under the `recraft-ai/recraft-v3` alias
- Well suited to repeatable asset production such as icon sets, posters, and social creative
Limitations
- Model weights are not distributed for self-hosting, so it cannot be run on your own GPUs
- Priced per generated image rather than per token, which makes cost forecasting for high-volume pipelines depend on retry and iteration rates
- Feature availability — including vector output and style controls — varies between Recraft's own API and third-party resellers
- We do not track independent benchmark scores for this model, so quality claims should be validated on your own prompts
- Design-oriented focus may be less relevant for photorealistic or scientific imagery workloads
Key Features
About Recraft v3
Common Use Cases
Recraft v3 fits design and marketing asset production: posters, banners, ad creative, social graphics, icon and illustration sets, and product mockups. Its text-in-image emphasis makes it a candidate for creative that must include headlines, labels, or short copy directly in the render, which typically requires manual compositing with image models that garble type. The style-consistency features suit teams producing batches of assets that need to look like they belong together, such as an illustration library for a docs site or a campaign run across multiple formats. The vector-oriented variant is the relevant choice when output has to scale cleanly to logos, icons, or print. For photorealistic photography-style work, scientific visualization, or workloads that require self-hosted weights and fine-tuning, other image generators are likely a better match.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Recraft v3 cost?
Image models are billed per generated image, and the rate depends on which provider you use, the requested size or quality setting, and whether you are calling Recraft's own API or a third-party host. Rates change often, so check the pricing table on this page for current per-image pricing across providers.
What is Recraft v3 best used for?
Design-oriented image generation — marketing and social creative, posters, icon and illustration sets, and mockups — particularly where the image needs legible text rendered inside it or where a set of images must share a consistent style.
Can Recraft v3 produce vector graphics?
Recraft publishes a vector-oriented variant alongside the raster Recraft v3 model for work that needs scalable output such as icons and logos. Availability of that variant depends on the provider and endpoint you call, so confirm before building against it.
Can I run Recraft v3 on my own GPUs?
No. Recraft v3 is served through APIs — Recraft's own and third-party inference marketplaces, where it appears as `recraft-ai/recraft-v3` — and weights are not distributed for self-hosting. If self-hosting is a requirement, an open-weight image model is the appropriate category to compare.
How does Recraft v3 compare to general-purpose image models?
Its differentiator is the design-tooling angle: text rendering inside images, style control across generations, and a vector variant. General-purpose diffusion models often have broader community tooling, more fine-tuning and LoRA options, and in some cases open weights. Since we do not track independent benchmarks for Recraft v3, run your own prompt set against both before committing.