Recraft: Recraft V4.1

recraft/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(opens in new tab)

Note: only one input image is supported.

Modalities

Price

$0.035/image

Context

66K

Released

May 13, 2026

Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Effective Pricing

The chart below shows the average price customers are actually paying after prompt caching. Depending on the amount of repeated context you send, this can be 60–80% cheaper than the provider list price. Shown are rolling averages from the past 30 days.

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

Percent of requests that succeeded over the last 30 days. OpenRouter monitors every provider continuously and automatically retries on the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

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

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.