> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.recraft.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Recraft V4

Recraft V4 was released in **February 2026**. With a focus on visual and design taste, V4 produces images with balanced composition, cohesive color, and refined detail that feel intentional rather than stock-like, across both raster and vector outputs.

Recraft V4 text-to-image models are available in four versions:

| Service description   | Cost (USD) | Cost (API units) | Billing Basis | Time |
| :-------------------- | :--------- | :--------------- | :------------ | ---- |
| Recraft V4            | \$0.04     | 40               | Per image     | 10s  |
| Recraft V4 Pro        | \$0.25     | 250              | Per image     | 30s  |
| Recraft V4 Vector     | \$0.08     | 80               | Per image     | 15s  |
| Recraft V4 Pro Vector | \$0.30     | 300              | Per image     | 45s  |

**Pro** delivers higher resolution and finer detail, perfecting anatomy issues and improving realism across complex scenes. It produces more reliable results for detailed compositions, print-ready visuals, and other high-fidelity applications.

All versions of Recraft V4 are available on all plan types, including the Free plan.

## Exploration Mode

**Exploration mode is temporarily unavailable.** We're re-imagining it to make it a better fit for your workflow — it'll be back soon.

## Key features

**Design-forward visual judgment**: Produces images with balanced composition, cohesive color relationships, and controlled detail, resulting in a more stylish, modern look that can be applied directly in professional creative workflows.

Outputs tend to feel deliberate rather than generic or stock-like, making V4 well suited for workflows where aesthetic quality matters alongside prompt accuracy.

**Exceptional prompt understanding**: Interprets detailed creative direction, accurately following visual relationships such as reflections, materials, and background interactions.

**Readable, structured text generation**: Produces clear, legible text for infographics, menus, signage, and packaging designs. Handles short and mid-length phrases with high fidelity to layout and typography.

**Rich output variety**: Generate everything from stylized illustrations to photoreal images and production-ready vectors. V4 maintains visual coherence and high detail across diverse creative directions.

**Sharper detail and higher realism**: Improved textures, color balance, and lighting deliver clean geometry and consistent visual depth, avoiding the flat or synthetic look common in stock-style imagery.

**High-quality vector generation**: The only model capable of generating editable, production-quality **SVG** graphics. Vector outputs preserve scalable geometry and discrete color regions suitable for professional design workflows.

**Higher native resolution (Pro version)**: Ideal for professional production workflows that require large formats or pixel-dense detail. The Pro model outputs at 2048x2048 px for design-grade clarity across print, product, and marketing use cases.

**Supported formats** Export results in **SVG**, **PNG**, **JPG**, **PDF**, **TIFF**, and **Lottie**.

**Default availability** All V4 models are available in the web app and via the API.

## Limitations

The following features are not yet supported in Recraft V4:

* Style creation
* Prompt-based editing
* Image sets
* Artistic level control

## Availability

Recraft V4 is accessible to all users via the **model selector** in the Recraft app and API, and replaces V3 for most generation tasks.

## Pricing

Each image in exploration mode costs 2 credits. Since you always receive 8 images per generation, the total cost per generation is 16 credits.