Recraft V4.1
Recraft V4.1 is Recraft’s fourth‑generation image generation model, offering high‑quality raster and vector outputs for creative and commercial design workflows.
What is Recraft V4.1?
Recraft V4.1 is a text‑to‑image and text‑to‑vector AI model from Recraft designed for generating high‑quality raster and SVG graphics. It is mainly used for fast, general‑purpose image generation such as illustrations, product shots, and concept art, including controlled‑output “Utility” and higher‑resolution “Utility Pro” variants. It is also used for scalable, editable vector assets through its text‑to‑vector and SVG‑focused configurations, making it suitable for logos, icons, and UI graphics. It belongs to the Recraft V4 family of image models, following earlier versions like Recraft V3 and V4, and extends them with improved aesthetics, resolution, and control.
Can you self-host Recraft V4.1?
No. We found no public weights for Recraft V4.1 on Hugging Face, so there is nothing to download, quantize or serve on your own GPUs: no VRAM budget, no vLLM or GGUF build to plan for. The only way to run it is over an API.
Not on LLM.API yet
We do not route this model through our API at the moment. Browse the models you can call today — most workloads have a close match already live.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).
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~$0.0012/img | ~$0.0012/img | — | ~350ms | ~80 img/min | 99.9% |
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~$0.0020/img | ~$0.0020/img | — | ~320ms | ~100 img/min | 99.9% |
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~$0.0015/img | ~$0.0015/img | — | ~280ms | ~90 img/min | 99.9% |
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~$0.0025/img | ~$0.0025/img | — | ~400ms | ~70 img/min | 99.5% |
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Not available on LLM API yet
We do not route this model through our API at the moment, so there is no endpoint or code snippet for it yet. Browse the models you can call today — most workloads have a close match already live.
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What the model is good at.
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Text Chat
Engages in conversational text interactions, answering questions, following instructions, and assisting with creative or technical writing tasks.
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Image Generation
Generates high-quality images from text prompts, supporting diverse styles and subjects for design, illustration, and creative content.
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Image Editing
Edits and enhances existing images based on text instructions, including modifications, style changes, and localized visual adjustments.
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Style Transfer
Applies specific artistic styles or brand aesthetics to generated or uploaded images while preserving core composition and content.
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Multilingual Prompts
Accepts prompts in multiple languages for generating or editing images, enabling cross-language creative workflows and experimentation.
What you get when you call Recraft V4.1 through LLM.API.
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Unified AI Routing
Route each request to the best model in real time using latency, price, and quality signals—no client logic or provider lock-in required.
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Cost-Aware Orchestration
Automatically optimize for price versus quality with per-request controls, usage caps, and smart downgrades so you never overspend on non-critical workloads.
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Resilient Fallbacks
Define provider and model fallbacks once; LLM.API transparently retries across regions and vendors to keep your AI features online during outages or rate limits.
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End-to-End Observability
Get unified logs, traces, costs, and latency metrics across all models and providers, with request replay and payload search for fast debugging and tuning.
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Task-Level Abstractions
Build against portable task APIs—chat, tools, RAG, vision, and more—so you can swap models without rewriting prompts, schemas, or integration code.
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High-Throughput Batch
Process millions of inferences efficiently with batch queuing, concurrency control, and partial-failure handling to keep large data and offline workflows cheap and fast.
Scale from 10 to 10M
When to Use — When NOT to Use
Use it if...
- You need to generate high-quality, stylized illustrations or concept art from text prompts.
- You need consistent character or asset generation across multiple related images or scenes.
- Your use case involves producing marketing visuals, social creatives, or web graphics quickly.
- You need controllable image generation with style, composition, or branding guidance from references.
- Your use case involves experimenting with multiple visual variants to A/B test creative directions.
- You need AI-generated images that can be edited or refined iteratively via new prompts.
Avoid if...
- You need a text-only large language model for reasoning, coding, or long-form writing.
- Your workload requires detailed video generation, temporal consistency, or long animation sequences.
- You need strict medical, legal, or safety-certified outputs beyond general-purpose creative imagery.
- Your workload requires on-device inference without calling external image-generation APIs or services.
- You need high-accuracy OCR, document understanding, or data extraction rather than visual creativity.
- Your workload requires generating 3D assets, meshes, or CAD files rather than 2D images.
COMMUNITY
What developers say about Recraft V4.1
Summarised from public developer discussions and write-ups. Opinions are the sources’, not LLM.API’s.
- Developers utilizing benchmarks find the model exceptionally strong in typography and prompt adherence, specifically citing a perfect 5.0 score for text rendering and a high 4.7 for following complex instructions.
- Technical evaluations identify limitations in transparency for production, noting that approximately 47% of pixels in alpha channel outputs remain semi-transparent, which can complicate clean edge cutting for printing.
- Developers report that the model is significantly faster and more cost-effective than several competitors, achieving generation speeds of approximately 11 seconds at a price point of $0.035 per image.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Recraft V4.1?
Recraft V4.1 is an image generation model by Recraft focused on high-quality, stylized visuals for design and creative use cases.
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What is the context window or maximum input size for Recraft V4.1?
Recraft V4.1 is an image generation model and does not use a traditional token-based context window like text-only LLMs.
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Which modalities does Recraft V4.1 support?
Recraft V4.1 supports text-to-image generation, taking text prompts as input and producing images as output.
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How fast is Recraft V4.1 when called through LLM.API?
Recraft V4.1 generation latency via LLM.API depends on image size and load, but is generally suitable for interactive design workflows.
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How is Recraft V4.1 priced on LLM.API?
On LLM.API, Recraft V4.1 is typically billed per generated image or per image pixel, depending on the platform’s active pricing plan.
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How do I call Recraft V4.1 through the LLM.API gateway?
You select the Recraft V4.1 model in your LLM.API request payload and provide a text prompt plus any desired image generation parameters.
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What is Recraft V4.1 particularly good at?
Recraft V4.1 excels at generating clean, commercially usable illustrations, branding assets, icons, and design-oriented images from concise prompts.
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How does Recraft V4.1 compare to general-purpose text models on LLM.API?
Unlike text LLMs, Recraft V4.1 specializes purely in image generation and should be combined with a text model for complex reasoning or prompt engineering.
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What are the main limitations of Recraft V4.1?
Recraft V4.1 may struggle with dense text in images, exact brand replications, or photorealism compared to models optimized specifically for those tasks.
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Can Recraft V4.1 handle batch image generation via LLM.API?
Yes, you can request multiple images per prompt through LLM.API, subject to rate limits and maximum batch sizes configured on your account.
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