Recraft Pricing 2026: Every Plan, Real Costs and Hidden Fees

Recraft costs $12 a month for Basic, or $10 a month billed yearly ($120), with 1,000 credits. Pro starts at $20 a month or $16 billed yearly ($192) for 2,000 credits, and Teams is $22 per seat a month or $18 per seat billed yearly, with a two-seat minimum, as listed on Recraft's pricing page and its paid plans documentation on November 4, 2026. A Recraft V4.1 image costs 2 credits, so the cheapest paid image is about 2 cents.

That is the useful way to read Recraft's menu: every plan is a block of prepaid credits, and the model you pick decides how far the block goes. A vector logo on V4.1 costs twice a raster image, and a Pro vector costs six times as much. This page turns each plan into images, prices the API next to the subscriptions and shows where Ideogram undercuts or beats it. For the product itself (vector quality, editing tools, weaknesses), read our Recraft review.

Toolradar data: Toolradar tracks 185 AI image generation tools as of November 4, 2026, and the median cheapest paid plan across the 55 that publish one is $15 a month, per its AI image generation ranking. Recraft's entry plan sits below that median on either billing cycle. The listing itself is on Recraft's Toolradar page.

Plan	Monthly billing	Yearly billing	Credits each month	What the plan adds
Free	$0	$0	Limited, reset daily	Recraft models only, public images, no commercial use
Basic	$12/mo	$10/mo ($120/yr)	1,000	Partner models, commercial rights, private images, top-ups
Pro 2,000	$20/mo	$16/mo ($192/yr)	2,000	Video models, priority image queue, 10 parallel jobs
Pro 4,000	$40/mo	$32/mo	4,000	Same Pro features, larger allowance
Pro 8,000	$80/mo	$64/mo	8,000	Same Pro features, larger allowance
Pro 16,000	$160/mo	$128/mo	16,000	Same Pro features, larger allowance
Teams	$22/seat/mo	$18/seat/mo	2,000 per seat	Shared workspace and styles, central billing, SSO, 24/7 support
Top-up	$2 per 200 credits	n/a	What you buy	Paid plans only, never expires

Prices exclude VAT, which Recraft adds at checkout.

How much does Recraft cost per image?

On yearly Basic, a Recraft V4.1 image costs 2 cents, and on yearly Pro it costs 1.6 cents. Those figures are our arithmetic: Basic billed yearly works out to one cent per credit, Pro billed yearly to 0.8 cents, and Recraft's credits documentation charges a fixed number of credits per image for each model.

Model (per image)	Credits	Basic, yearly	Pro, yearly	API
V4.1 Flash	1	1¢	0.8¢	$0.007
V4.1 raster	2	2¢	1.6¢	$0.035
V4.1 Vector	4	4¢	3.2¢	$0.08
V4.1 Pro raster	10	10¢	8¢	$0.21 (2K)
V4.1 Pro Vector	12	12¢	9.6¢	$0.30
V3 Vector	2	2¢	1.6¢	$0.08

The vector rows are where Recraft earns its place. A V4.1 vector inside a subscription costs half what the same call costs through the API. If your work is logos, icons and illustrations for print or the web, the subscription is the cheaper route by a wide margin.

The table also shows what a plan buys in a month. Basic's monthly allowance covers 500 V4.1 images, 250 V4.1 vectors or 83 Pro vectors. Pro's entry tier doubles each figure. Editing costs credits too: background removal, vectorizing a raster image and crisp upscaling are 1 credit each, and Enhance is 10, so a workflow that cleans up every output spends faster than the image count suggests.

Partner models cost far more credits

Basic and above add models Recraft does not make, and they are priced at their own rates on the external models table. Nano Banana Pro costs 32 credits per image, its 4K variant 63, and GPT Image 1.5 High 24. One Nano Banana Pro 4K image uses the credits of more than 31 V4.1 images.

That matters for the buyer who subscribes to Recraft as a hub for every model. Ideogram V3 inside Recraft costs 6 credits on Turbo, 11 on Default and 17 on Quality, which is 11 cents for a Default image on yearly Basic. Flux 2 Pro at 10 credits, Imagen 4 at 8 and Seedream V4.5 at 8 each cost several V4.1 images. Spent only on Nano Banana Pro, Basic's allowance buys 31 images, so a buyer who lives on partner models belongs on a larger Pro tier or on that model's own plan.

Is Recraft free?

Yes, with limits that rule out client work. The Free plan gives a small credit allowance that resets daily, up to two images per generation and three image uploads a day, and it runs Recraft's own models only. The pricing card caps it at three generations per style per day.

Recraft owns what you make on Free. Its pricing FAQ says Free images are public in the community gallery, belong to Recraft and are not licensed for commercial use, so they cannot be listed on stock sites that ask for proof of ownership. Paid plans flip that: full ownership and commercial rights for everything generated while subscribed, private by default, and the rights stay with you after you cancel.

Top-ups are closed to free accounts. The cheapest way to own your output is one month of Basic at $12.

Basic or Pro: where the 20% discount and the upgrade pay off

Yearly billing saves $24 a year on Basic and $48 on the entry Pro tier, our arithmetic from twelve monthly payments against the printed annual charge. Recraft labels the yearly option "save 20%", and that holds for Pro; on Basic the cut works out to about 17%.

The upgrade from Basic to Pro is mostly a credit decision. Pro billed yearly costs $6 a month more than Basic billed yearly and adds 1,000 credits, which is cheaper than the $10 those credits cost as top-ups. Pro also adds video generation (Kling, Veo, Seedance and others), priority image generation and 10 parallel jobs against 5 on Basic. If you use more than about 600 extra credits a month, Pro billed yearly beats Basic plus top-ups.

Pro tiers scale in a straight line. Every Pro tier costs one cent per credit on monthly billing and 0.8 cents on yearly billing, so the 16,000-credit tier buys volume, not a better rate. Upgrades are prorated for the rest of the current period, per Recraft's plan change documentation, and you can move between credit tiers from the same screen.

What Recraft Teams costs per seat

Teams starts at $18 per seat a month billed yearly, and the plan card prints that as $211 a year per seat, a little under twelve times the monthly figure. Monthly billing is $22 per seat. Recraft's Teams overview sets a two-seat minimum, so the floor is $44 a month on monthly billing or $422 a year at the card's yearly rate (our arithmetic).

Each seat gets 2,000 credits a month, and larger allowances of 4,000 or 16,000 credits per seat cost $44 and $176 a month on monthly billing, per the paid plans documentation. Monthly credits are not shared between members, which is the trap for a team where one designer does most of the work. Top-up credits behave differently: on a Teams workspace they go into a pool every seat can draw from.

For a three-person design team on the entry tier, Teams costs $633 a year at the card rate, against $792 on monthly billing. The extra over three Pro seats buys a shared workspace, shared custom styles, central billing, SSO and round-the-clock support.

API pricing: when code beats a subscription

The Recraft API is pay as you go: $1 buys 1,000 API units, purchased units never expire, and packages are non-refundable, per the API pricing page. It is billed separately from subscription credits, so a Pro plan does not fund API calls.

For V4.1 Flash, the API is the cheapest Recraft route at $0.007 per image, under the 0.8 cents a yearly Pro credit costs. For every other model the subscription wins: a V4.1 vector is $0.08 on the API against 4 cents of Basic credit. Image tools are cheap per call: erase region $0.002, crisp upscale $0.004, background removal and vectorizing $0.01 each, creative upscale $0.25. Generating with a style reference adds $0.005 per request.

Two worked cost scenarios

The first is a brand designer producing 300 V4.1 vectors and 200 V4.1 raster images a month, which is 1,600 credits. Prices are the ones read on Recraft's pages on November 4, 2026; the totals are our arithmetic.

Route	Monthly cost	How it adds up
Basic yearly plus 600 top-up credits	$16	1,000 plan credits plus $6 of top-ups
Basic monthly plus 600 top-up credits	$18	Same top-ups on monthly billing
Pro 2,000, yearly	$16	Allowance covers it, 400 credits spare
API	$31	300 vectors at $0.08 plus 200 images at $0.035

Pro billed yearly ties Basic plus top-ups and leaves 400 credits and video access on the table, so it is the better buy at this volume. The API costs nearly twice as much here.

The second is a product team generating 5,000 V4.1 Flash images a month for an ecommerce catalog. Through the API that is $35. Inside a subscription it is 5,000 credits: Pro 4,000 billed yearly plus $10 of top-ups comes to $42, and Pro 8,000 billed yearly is $64. If your pipeline already runs in code and Flash quality is enough, the API wins by $7 a month.

The rules that cost money after checkout

Monthly credits expire. Subscription credits reset at the start of each billing cycle and unused ones do not roll over. Top-up credits never expire, survive a cancellation and are spent only after the monthly allowance.

Refunds are discretionary. Recraft may refund within 30 days of the latest payment, and only if you used no credits since that payment or fewer than 30 credits since the account was created. It issues no refund once an account is deleted, so ask before you delete.

VAT is added on top. The card prices exclude it. Recraft takes credit cards, debit cards and bank transfers through Stripe.

Downgrades return credit, not cash. Moving down a Pro tier or to Free can leave a prorated amount on your Stripe account for future purchases.

AI Chat mode charges per message. Recraft's credits documentation says each chat message costs credits and the cost grows with the length of the conversation, so long chats cost more than Create mode, which charges only for the generation.

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How does Recraft pricing compare with Ideogram and Midjourney?

Recraft is cheaper to enter than Ideogram. Ideogram's plans documentation lists Plus at $20 a month or $15 billed yearly ($180) for 2,400 credits, and Pro at $60 or $42 billed yearly ($504) for 7,500 credits. An Ideogram credit costs one US cent when bought loose, so yearly Plus works out to 0.625 cents per credit and yearly Pro to 0.56 cents, our arithmetic.

Per credit, Ideogram is cheaper, but the two credits do not buy the same thing. Ideogram prices each image by model and quality and shows the cost on the Generate button, so compare a week of your real prompts on both before deciding. Ideogram's paid plans also keep generating with its own models in a slower queue after credits run out. On the other side, Ideogram offers no refunds on subscriptions or credits, and Recraft's Basic plan is the cheaper door for a buyer who mainly wants SVG output. Our Ideogram pricing guide has its full credit math, and Midjourney vs Ideogram covers the image side.

For teams, Ideogram Team is $240 per user a year billed yearly with 3,600 credits per user, against Recraft's $211 card rate with 2,000 credits per seat. Recraft is the cheaper seat; Ideogram puts more credits behind it.

For Midjourney, check the current price on Midjourney's site, and read our Midjourney pricing breakdown for how its plans map to images. For other directions, see the best AI image generators, the AI logo generators ranking, Adobe Firefly pricing and the free AI image generators list.

Which Recraft plan should you buy?

Stay on Free to judge Recraft's vector style, nothing more. You cannot use the images commercially and Recraft owns them.

Buy Basic if you need up to 250 V4.1 vectors or 500 raster images a month with commercial rights. Billed yearly, that is the cheapest way to own Recraft output.

Buy Pro yearly once you need more than about 1,600 credits a month, video models or 10 parallel jobs. Buy Teams only when several people generate and you need one bill and SSO, and remember that each seat's credits stay with that seat.

Use the API for Flash-quality volume in code, where it is the cheapest Recraft route per image.

AIpresso's AI image generator statistics page tracks the wider market these prices sit in.

How we checked these prices

We read Recraft's pricing page, paid plans, credits, external models, Teams and API pricing pages on November 4, 2026, along with Ideogram's plans, extra credits and refunds documentation. Per-credit rates, per-image costs and both scenarios are our arithmetic on those published figures. The 185-tool count comes from Toolradar's live AI image generation ranking the same day. Publishing rules for this site are on the AIpresso about page.

FAQ

How much does Recraft cost in 2026?

Basic is $12 a month or $10 a month billed yearly ($120 a year) for 1,000 credits. Pro starts at $20 a month or $16 billed yearly for 2,000 credits and scales to 16,000 credits at $160 a month. Teams is $22 per seat a month or $18 billed yearly, with at least two seats. Prices exclude VAT and were read on Recraft's pricing page on November 4, 2026.

How much does Recraft cost per seat?

Only the Teams plan is priced per seat: $22 a month on monthly billing, or $18 a month billed yearly, which the plan card lists as $211 a year. A workspace needs at least two seats, and each seat gets its own 2,000 monthly credits that other members cannot use. Basic and Pro are single-user plans.

How many images does Recraft Basic include?

Basic includes 1,000 credits a month. A Recraft V4.1 image costs 2 credits and a V4.1 vector 4, so the allowance covers about 500 raster images or 250 vectors. Partner models cost more: one Nano Banana Pro image uses 32 credits. Extra credits cost $2 per 200 and never expire.

Do Recraft credits roll over?

No. Monthly subscription credits reset at the start of each billing cycle, and unused ones are lost. Top-up credits are different: they never expire, are used after the monthly allowance runs out and stay on your account even after the subscription ends. On a Teams workspace, top-ups are shared by every seat.

Can I use Recraft images commercially on the free plan?

No. Recraft's pricing FAQ says images made on Free are owned by Recraft, shown publicly in the community gallery and not licensed for commercial use. Any paid plan gives you full ownership and commercial rights for images made while subscribed, and you keep those rights after cancelling.

Is the Recraft API cheaper than a subscription?

Only for V4.1 Flash, at $0.007 per image. For V4.1 raster images the API charges $0.035 against 2 cents of yearly Basic credit, and for V4.1 vectors $0.08 against 4 cents. API units are bought at $1 per 1,000, never expire, are non-refundable and are billed separately from plan credits.

Does Recraft offer refunds?

Sometimes. Recraft may refund within 30 days of your latest payment if you used no credits since that payment, or fewer than 30 credits in total since creating the account. It cannot refund a deleted account. API unit packages are non-refundable except where the law requires it.

Cite this: AIpresso, "Recraft Pricing 2026: Every Plan, Real Costs and Hidden Fees", November 2026.

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