Recraft V4.1 Flash

Newer version available: Recraft V4.1 Flash V2

Released
2026-09-23
Last refreshed
2026-11-14
Status
Researched today
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodal
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Specifications
Family
Recraft
Released
2026-09-23
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by

Innovative vector image generation technology

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2022
Website
Pricing
Price / image
$0.007/image

Cheapest of 3 routes · fal API

About

Recraft V4.1 Flash is the first version of Recraft's raster-only V4.1 Flash model, announced September 23, 2026. It produces 1K raster images (WebP or PNG) without style support; Recraft cited about 1.3 seconds per image. Recraft replaced it with V4.1 Flash V2 on November 13, 2026 and says the first version is no longer available in Recraft Studio. It is available through fal, OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway.

Providers(3)

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Compare published price / image across 3 tracked provider routes.

ProviderPrice / imageRoute
fal API$0.007/image
Serverless
OpenRouter$0.007/image
Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway$0.007/image
Serverless

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
1,099text_to_image overall 2026-11-12Observed 2026-11-14
Configuration: Recraft V4.1 Flash
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text to image leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-11-12 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @4ca698d9, latest split). Board entry 'Recraft V4.1 Flash': rank 60 of 85, Arena Score 1099.1 (95% CI 1091.5-1106.7), 5946 votes. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-14.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

recraft/recraft-v4.1-flashrecraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image