Recraft V4 Pro
Recraft's premium design-centric model — delivering art-directed, print-ready raster images at 2048px resolution with exceptional visual taste.
Overview
What is Recraft V4 Pro
Recraft V4 Pro is a premium text-to-image model released in February 2026, specifically engineered for professional design and brand asset creation. It generates high-resolution raster images (up to 2048px base) with a strong emphasis on composition, color harmony, and typographic precision.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, you can access Recraft V4 Pro privately under our anonymized tier, meaning your creative prompts are forwarded without personal identifiers. Because it is served via a third-party provider, Venice ensures your account history remains decoupled from the generation, letting you create professional-grade brand assets and marketing materials without Big Tech surveillance.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Exceptional 'design taste' with art-directed composition, balanced color palettes, and realistic material lighting.
- High-resolution output (~2048px base) suitable for print-ready assets, packaging, and large-scale marketing materials.
- Superb typographic capabilities, rendering clean and accurate in-image text for logos and posters.
- Strong prompt adherence, handling complex layouts and multi-element scenes with high fidelity.
- Slower generation speeds (~28-30 seconds per image) compared to standard speed models.
- Closed-source and proprietary, meaning it cannot be self-hosted or fine-tuned locally.
- While the Recraft family supports vector outputs, this specific V4 Pro raster model outputs high-res pixels, not editable SVGs.
Capabilities
What it supports
- Text to image
- Image to image
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- Recraft
- Released
- February 17, 2026
- Modality
- Text-to-image
- Base resolution
- ~2048×2048 pixels
- Open weights
- No — proprietary
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 3:2, 16:9, 21:9, 9:16, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5
- Prompt limit
- 10,000 chars
- Privacy on Venice
- Anonymized — prompts not stored
- Available on Venice since
- Feb 2026
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/image/generate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "recraft-v4-pro",
"prompt": "A serene mountain lake at dawn, photorealistic"
}' --output image.pngPricing
What it costs on Venice
Flat per-image pricing on Venice: $0.29 per generation.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Base resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recraft V4 Pro | ~2048px | Design taste & typography | No | $0.29 / image |
| Flux 2 Max | ~1024px | Photoreal detail | No | $0.09 / image |
| GPT Image 2 | 4K | Text & instruction-following | No | from $0.27 / image |
| Grok Imagine High Quality (SOTA) | ~1024px | Aesthetic richness | No | from $0.08 / image |
The design-first leader for high-resolution, art-directed assets.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01Creating high-fidelity brand assets, packaging designs, and print-ready marketing collateral.
- 02Generating posters, social media graphics, and editorial layouts requiring clean typography.
- 03Developing product mockups and design concepts that look art-directed rather than generic stock photos.
- 04Iterating on complex visual compositions where color harmony and layout balance are critical.
Prompting
Getting better results
Specify exact text inside double quotes for clean typographic rendering.
Focus on describing the aesthetic style, color palette, and composition to leverage the model's design-first training.
Use descriptive layout cues like 'centered product mockup with clean branding' to guide the visual hierarchy.
Version history
Previous generation design model.
Standard raster model optimized for speed (~10s).
Current — High-resolution premium raster model (~28s).
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Recraft V4 Pro is Recraft's premium text-to-image model released in February 2026. It is designed specifically for professional designers, focusing on visual taste, composition, color relationships, and clean typography rather than generic stock photorealism.
On Venice, Recraft V4 Pro costs a flat rate of $0.29 per generated image. Optional upscaling is priced at $0.02 for 2× and $0.08 for 4×.
No, Recraft V4 Pro is a proprietary, closed-weights model developed by Recraft. It is available on Venice via paid API credits, allowing you to pay per image without a monthly subscription.
While the Recraft platform is famous for vector generation, the Recraft V4 Pro model hosted on Venice generates high-resolution raster images (~2048px base) rather than editable SVG vector files.
Venice processes Recraft V4 Pro requests under its anonymized privacy tier. Your prompts are forwarded to a third-party provider without any personal identifiers or account history. However, because it runs on third-party infrastructure, the provider may retain prompt data per their policies.
Recraft V4 Pro is superior for graphic design, brand assets, and typography, delivering images that feel art-directed. Flux 2 Max is better suited for raw photorealism and general-purpose imagery at a lower cost per generation.
Recraft V4 Pro generates images at a high-resolution base of approximately 2048×2048 pixels (or up to 3072px on the long side for non-square aspect ratios), making it suitable for print and professional packaging.
Run Recraft V4 Pro privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.