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Recraft: Recraft V4.1 Flash

recraft/recraft-v4.1-flash

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Recraft V4.1 Flash is a text-to-image model from Recraft, the speed and cost tier of the V4.1 family. It generates ~1K raster images in about 1.5 seconds end to end, at roughly a fifth of the cost of Recraft V4.1, and is suited for rapid iteration, prototyping, and high-volume generation where turnaround matters more than peak fidelity.

It is generation only: image inputs, styles, and style references are not supported. Supports the same aspect ratios as V4.1 and the image_config parameters rgb_colors (sets a color palette) and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generationOpens in new tab

Modalities
Price
$0.007/image
Context
66K
Released
Sep 23, 2026
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Example outputs summary for Recraft: Recraft V4.1 Flash

  • Text to Image: Editorial architectural photograph of a contemporary neighborhood storefront at blue hour, glowing warmly against the dusk. Above the entrance, a warm-white neon sign in flowing hand-bent cursive reads exactly "OpenRouter", the only text in the scene. Large windows reveal a cozy, lived-in interior: wood shelves styled with books and ceramics, lush trailing plants, and soft pendant lighting. Potted plants and a bicycle rest by the entrance, and golden light spills across the wet pavement in gentle reflections. Straight-on composition, realistic materials, quiet street with no people. — generated with Recraft: Recraft V4.1 Flash
  • Text to Image 2: Editorial architectural photograph of a contemporary neighborhood storefront at blue hour, glowing warmly against the dusk. Above the entrance, a warm-white neon sign in flowing hand-bent cursive reads exactly "OpenRouter", the only text in the scene. Large windows reveal a cozy, lived-in interior: wood shelves styled with books and ceramics, lush trailing plants, and soft pendant lighting. Potted plants and a bicycle rest by the entrance, and golden light spills across the wet pavement in gentle reflections. Straight-on composition, realistic materials, quiet street with no people. — generated with Recraft: Recraft V4.1 Flash
  • Text to Image 3: Editorial architectural photograph of a contemporary neighborhood storefront at blue hour, glowing warmly against the dusk. Above the entrance, a warm-white neon sign in flowing hand-bent cursive reads exactly "OpenRouter", the only text in the scene. Large windows reveal a cozy, lived-in interior: wood shelves styled with books and ceramics, lush trailing plants, and soft pendant lighting. Potted plants and a bicycle rest by the entrance, and golden light spills across the wet pavement in gentle reflections. Straight-on composition, realistic materials, quiet street with no people. — generated with Recraft: Recraft V4.1 Flash

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Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark outputs summary for Recraft: Recraft V4.1 Flash

  • Full wine glass: A wine glass filled to the brim with white wine, the surface level with the rim of the glass, standing upright on a plain wooden table. Straight-on eye-level shot, glass upright and not tilted, no other objects in the frame. (Tied 10th of 57 on this prompt)
  • Closed umbrellas: Wide street-level photograph of about twelve people crossing a city street in heavy rain. Every person is carrying a closed, furled umbrella held down at their side. Not a single umbrella is open. Each umbrella is clearly visible. They are all getting soaked. No other people in the frame. (Tied 34th of 57 on this prompt)
  • Three fingers: Close straight-on photograph of an open right hand raised palm towards the camera, with exactly three fingers extended straight up and the other two folded down into the palm. Plain background, nothing else in the frame. (Tied 33rd of 57 on this prompt)
  • Cards & dice: Exactly four playing cards face up in a single straight row on a polished marble counter, evenly spaced, all the same size, showing the seven of hearts, the eight of spades, the nine of diamonds and the ten of clubs from left to right. No other objects in the frame. Straight-on eye-level shot, soft even light. (Tied 34th of 57 on this prompt)
  • Long exact string: A white A4 poster on a brick wall reading exactly "SPRING CLEARANCE - EVERYTHING 40% OFF - SATURDAY 14 JUNE, 9AM TO 6PM". No other text in the frame. (Tied 29th of 57 on this prompt)
  • Multiple languages: Straight-on photograph of a white overhead directional sign in an international airport terminal, with a black arrow pointing right at the left end. The sign carries the same word in four scripts on four stacked lines, in this order from top to bottom: "DEPARTURES", then the Japanese 出発, then the Korean 출발, then the Arabic المغادرة. Clean sans-serif lettering, sharp focus, no other text anywhere in the frame. (Tied 40th of 57 on this prompt)
  • Occlusion: Straight-on eye-level photograph of a plain wooden desk. On the left, a closed hardcover book with a dark red cover stands upright, its front cover facing the camera. A blue ceramic mug stands on the desk to the right of the book and clearly further back, about 20 cm behind it, positioned so that the right edge of the book overlaps and hides the left third of the mug. The mug's handle points to the right and the whole rim of the mug is visible. Bare desk surface is visible between the book and the mug. Nothing else on the desk. Plain wall behind, soft even light. (Tied 25th of 57 on this prompt)
  • Mirror: Straight-on eye-level photograph of a bathroom vanity. A large rectangular mirror covers the wall behind the counter and its bottom edge meets the countertop, so both the objects and their reflections are visible. On the counter, a tall red toothbrush cup on the left and a tall green glass bottle on the right, both roughly 20 cm tall and well apart from each other. The mirror reflects the counter and the objects on it accurately. Nothing else in the frame. (Tied 2nd of 57 on this prompt)
  • Plain zebra: Photograph of a zebra standing side-on in short grass. Its coat is a uniform solid grey with no stripes, no bands and no markings of any kind anywhere on its body. The whole animal is visible. Sharp focus. (Tied 27th of 57 on this prompt)
  • Times Square: Wide street-level photograph of Times Square in New York at night, wet asphalt reflecting the lights. Every billboard, screen, storefront window, awning, taxi door and road marking is completely blank — lit with plain colour fields and soft gradients only. No letters, no words, no numbers, no logos, no lettering of any kind anywhere in the frame. Sharp focus, straight-on shot. (Tied 11th of 57 on this prompt)
  • Portraits: Studio headshot of a woman in a charcoal blazer against a mid-grey seamless backdrop, lit by a large softbox slightly above and to the left with a soft fill from the right, catchlights in both eyes. An 85mm look with shallow depth of field, skin texture and flyaway hairs kept rather than smoothed.
  • People in scenes: Photograph of four cooks working the pass in a restaurant kitchen at service, plating three dishes at once, several hands in frame and some of them overlapping. One cook partly hidden behind another, steam rising into hard overhead light, each face clearly a different person.
  • Animals: Photograph of a tabby cat asleep on a sunlit windowsill, fur lit from behind so the individual hairs glow at the edges, one ear turned toward the camera. Shallow depth of field, a houseplant soft in the background, quiet morning light.
  • Landscape and nature: Photograph of an old-growth temperate rainforest after rain, moss on every trunk and fallen log, ferns dense across the floor, thin fog between the far trees. Overcast light with no direct sun, everything from the nearest fern to the last trunk in focus.

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Pricing

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Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

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Frequently asked questions

Recraft V4.1 Flash is a text-to-image model from Recraft, the speed and cost tier of the V4.1 family. It generates ~1K raster images in about 1.5 seconds end to end, at roughly a fifth of the cost of Recraft V4.1, and is suited for rapid iteration, prototyping, and high-volume generation where turnaround matters more than peak fidelity.

Recraft V4.1 Flash costs $0.007/image.

Recraft V4.1 Flash supports the 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, and 9:16 aspect ratios and can generate up to 6 images per request.

Recraft V4.1 Flash accepts text as input and returns images.

Recraft V4 Styles Pro, Recraft V4 Styles Vector, Recraft V4 Styles Pro Vector and 12 more are other image models from Recraft.

Recraft V4.1 Flash was released on September 23, 2026.

More models from Recraft

Recraft V4.1 Flash

Recraft V4.1 Flash is a text-to-image model from Recraft, the speed and cost tier of the V4.1 family. It generates ~1K raster images in about 1.5 seconds end to end, at roughly a fifth of the cost of Recraft V4.1, and is suited for rapid iteration, prototyping, and high-volume generation where turnaround matters more than peak fidelity.

It is generation only: image inputs, styles, and style references are not supported. Supports the same aspect ratios as V4.1 and the image_config parameters rgb_colors (sets a color palette) and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Image$0.007/image
Recraft V4 Styles Pro

Recraft V4 Styles Pro is a style-consistent image generation model from Recraft. Every request requires at least one style reference image and generates a new image that reproduces the reference's rendering technique, colour, texture, and composition rather than editing it. It produces raster images at approximately 2K resolution.

Note: 1 to 10 reference images in PNG, JPG or WEBP, each at least 256 px on its shortest edge.

Pricing has two parts: $0.10 per image plus a one-time $0.005 style-creation charge per request, regardless of how many images that request returns. A single-image request costs $0.105, and a six-image request costs $0.605.

Imagefrom $0.10/image
Recraft V4 Styles Vector

Recraft V4 Styles Vector is a style-consistent image generation model from Recraft. Every request requires at least one style reference image and generates a new image that reproduces the reference's rendering technique, colour, texture, and composition rather than editing it. It produces SVG output for graphics that need to scale cleanly.

Note: 1 to 10 reference images in PNG, JPG or WEBP, each at least 256 px on its shortest edge.

Pricing has two parts: $0.05 per image plus a one-time $0.005 style-creation charge per request, regardless of how many images that request returns. A single-image request costs $0.055, and a six-image request costs $0.305.

Imagefrom $0.05/image
Recraft V4 Styles Pro Vector

Recraft V4 Styles Pro Vector is a style-consistent image generation model from Recraft. Every request requires at least one style reference image and generates a new image that reproduces the reference's rendering technique, colour, texture, and composition rather than editing it. It produces SVG output for graphics that need to scale cleanly.

Note: 1 to 10 reference images in PNG, JPG or WEBP, each at least 256 px on its shortest edge.

Pricing has two parts: $0.12 per image plus a one-time $0.005 style-creation charge per request, regardless of how many images that request returns. A single-image request costs $0.125, and a six-image request costs $0.725.

Imagefrom $0.12/image
Recraft V4 Styles

Recraft V4 Styles is a style-consistent image generation model from Recraft. Every request requires at least one style reference image and generates a new image that reproduces the reference's rendering technique, colour, texture, and composition rather than editing it. It produces raster images at approximately 1K resolution.

Note: 1 to 10 reference images in PNG, JPG or WEBP, each at least 256 px on its shortest edge.

Pricing has two parts: $0.035 per image plus a one-time $0.005 style-creation charge per request, regardless of how many images that request returns. A single-image request costs $0.040, and a six-image request costs $0.215.

Imagefrom $0.035/image
Recraft V4.1 Pro Vector

Recraft V4.1 Pro Vector is the vector (SVG) variant of Recraft V4.1 Pro, tuned for high aesthetics. It supports text and image inputs and produces higher-resolution SVG image output across multiple aspect ratios, with typical generation around 15 seconds. Output scales cleanly, making it suitable for icons, logos, and other graphics. V4.1 brings more personality to text and illustrations, smoother gradients, and stronger short-prompt adherence compared to V4 Pro.

Suited for higher-resolution illustration work and production graphics where output should be designed rather than photographed. Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.30/image
Recraft V4.1 Vector

Recraft V4.1 Vector is the vector (SVG) variant of Recraft V4.1, tuned for high aesthetics. It supports text and image inputs and produces SVG image output across multiple aspect ratios, with typical generation around 10 seconds. Output scales cleanly, making it suitable for icons, logos, and other graphics. V4.1 brings more personality to text and illustrations, smoother gradients, and stronger short-prompt adherence compared to V4.

Suited for everyday illustration work where output should be designed rather than photographed. Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.08/image
Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro

Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro is a general-purpose image generation model from Recraft. It supports text and image inputs with image output at ~2K resolution across multiple aspect ratios — double the resolution of V4.1 Utility - with typical generation around 10 seconds. Like V4.1 Utility, it is designed for restraint as the aesthetic choice - flat lighting, front-facing composition, and simple, controlled scenes - at higher fidelity for production use cases.

V4.1 improvements over V4 Pro include more natural object understanding, sharper mockups, cleaner default icons, and stronger prompt adherence with shorter prompts. Suited for product imagery, e-commerce mockups, and structured visuals where image quality matters and the high-aesthetic V4.1 Pro line would be too expressive. Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.21/image
Recraft V4.1 Utility

Recraft V4.1 Utility is a general-purpose image generation model from Recraft. It supports text and image inputs with image output at ~1K resolution across multiple aspect ratios, with typical generation around 6 seconds. The Utility line is designed for restraint as the aesthetic choice - flat lighting, front-facing composition, and simple, controlled scenes - making it a practical fit for product imagery, mockups, and structured visuals where the high-aesthetic V4.1 line would be too expressive.

V4.1 improvements over V4 include more natural object understanding, sharper mockups, cleaner default icons, and stronger prompt adherence with shorter prompts. Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.035/image
Recraft V4.1 Pro

Recraft V4.1 Pro is an image generation model from Recraft tuned for high aesthetics. It supports text and image inputs with image output at ~2K resolution across multiple aspect ratios - double the resolution of V4.1 - with typical generation around 10 seconds. It shares the V4.1 visual sensibility at higher fidelity and detail density, with more natural photorealism, smoother 3D rendering and gradients, and stronger short-prompt adherence than V4 Pro.

Suited for production work where image quality is the priority and the idea benefits from more resolution to breathe. Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.21/image
Recraft V4.1

Recraft V4.1 is an image generation model from Recraft tuned for high aesthetics. It supports text and image inputs with image output at ~1K resolution across multiple aspect ratios, with typical generation around 6 seconds. Compared to V4, photorealism feels more natural with quieter backgrounds and more purposeful lighting, 3D rendering and soft gradients are smoother, and the model follows shorter prompts more reliably.

Suited for exploration, concept work, and everyday creative work where speed and cost matter. Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.035/image
Recraft V4 Pro Vector

Recraft V4 Pro Vector is the vector (SVG) variant of Recraft V4 Pro. It supports text and image inputs and produces vector image output across multiple aspect ratios at the higher fidelity Pro tier. Output is delivered as SVG, suitable for icons, logos, and other graphics that need to scale cleanly. V4 Pro offers higher fidelity and detail density than V4, with stronger compositional judgment, color coherence, and legible embedded text compared to V3.

Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.30/image
Recraft V4 Vector

Recraft V4 Vector is the vector (SVG) variant of Recraft V4. It supports text and image inputs and produces vector image output across multiple aspect ratios. Compared to the raster V4, output is delivered as SVG, suitable for icons, logos, and other graphics that need to scale cleanly. V4 delivers stronger compositional judgment, color coherence, and legible embedded text compared to V3.

Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.08/image
Recraft V4 Pro

Recraft V4 Pro is an image generation model from Recraft. It supports text and image inputs with image output at ~2K resolution across multiple aspect ratios, double the resolution of V4. It offers higher fidelity and detail density than V4, suited for production use cases where image quality is a priority.

Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.25/image
Recraft V4

Recraft V4 is an image generation model from Recraft. It supports text and image inputs with image output at ~1K resolution across multiple aspect ratios. It delivers stronger compositional judgment, color coherence, and legible embedded text compared to V3, making it suited for infographics, signage, and packaging.

Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.04/image
Recraft V3

Recraft V3 is an image generation model from Recraft. It supports text and image inputs with image output at ~1K resolution across multiple aspect ratios.

Supports the following image_config parameters: strength (controls how much the output deviates from the source image), style (applies an artistic style), text_layout (places text at specific positions), rgb_colors (sets a color palette), and background_rgb_color (sets the background color). See the image generation docs for details: https://openrouter.ai/docs/features/multimodal/image-generation

Note: only one input image is supported.

Image$0.04/image