Recraft
Tool · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Recraft is a generator and editor of images with an emphasis on vector. By the tool's own description it makes a picture from text with the "Recraft V4.1" model, assembles "complex editable vector graphics" with editable layout and typography, stores its own reusable styles ("custom styles"), edits photographs, removes backgrounds, increases resolution, makes mock-ups of images on objects. The Recraft Studio environment and an API are announced.
Editable vector distinguishes the tool from generators of general purpose: the result is edited like a layout. But the main thing to know before registering lies not in the description of the capabilities but in the terms: the rights to the output on the free and the paid plans are arranged in fundamentally different ways.
Which platforms it works with
Platforms for publishing the tool does not announce. An API is announced: it gives "programmatic access to image and vector generation, editing, background removal, inpainting, outpainting, batch jobs, and asynchronous processing", with the models "V2, V3, V4 and V4.1" available.
No export to social networks is declared. The fact is partial: what is announced is a means of embedding, not a platform. There is no ready "publish" button.
Pricing
Prices cannot be seen from outside, and that is not a slip. On the pricing page there is a switch "Pay monthly / Pay annually (save 20%)", a division "Plans / API" and the names of the plans: Free, Basic, Pro and the team plan Teams. The monetary values themselves are absent from the text of the page — they are substituted in by a script, and are not readable by a request.
Facts about Recraft's prices are therefore not present at all: known are only the names of the four plans and the discount of 20 per cent for annual payment — what to count it from the page does not show.
What is free
The Free plan is announced and it is not a trial. But paying for it is done not in money.
Rights. By the terms what is created here is "Free Tier Assets", they "are owned by Recraft and may not be sold, licensed or transferred", and "no commercial use of Free Tier Assets is permitted". The details are in the section on rights.
Publicity. The pricing page adds that such images "are publicly visible in the community gallery" — visible to everyone in the common gallery.
Volume. In the markup the bound "3 per day on Free" is visible — three a day, relating to the uploading of images.
The fact is partial: the quantitative values are substituted in by a script.
Restrictions
The unit of the limit is credits, and the page describes their arrangement in words rather than in figures. The plan's credits "reset at the start of each billing cycle — unused credits don't roll over". Ones bought on top behave differently: "Top-up credits are purchased separately, never expire, and are used automatically once your monthly credits run out". But "Top-ups are only available to users on Basic and Pro plans".
The cost of an operation is variable: "Credit costs vary depending on the type of action and the model used". Calculating in advance how many pictures a plan will be enough for is not possible: the numerical volumes of credits are not output in the markup, and the fact is partial for the same reason as the prices.
About marking, on the contrary, much is said: in the terms there is a section "Transparency and Marking of AI-Generated Content". The tool has the right to "embed machine-readable metadata, watermarks, or other provenance information into Assets", and the user undertakes "not remove, obscure, disable, or alter any machine-readable metadata, watermarks". The abbreviation C2PA is not used, although what is described resembles that standard in sense.
Rights to the output
The terms separate the plans, and the difference between them is the sharpest we have met.
Free. The licence is given "for your personal use" with three restrictions in a row: there is no commercial use, "Free Tier Assets are owned by Recraft and may not be sold, licensed or transferred", and they "may not be used to train artificial intelligence models". The owner of the output is the tool.
Paid. "You own all Assets you create with the Services and Recraft hereby assigns to you all copyright rights it may have in the Assets", the use being "for business or personal use": ownership is direct, and the tool cedes to you its possible copyright.
A reservation common to both: "Assets may not be used to train artificial intelligence models" — training models on the output is not allowed on any plan.
The practical conclusion: the free plan is a shop window, not a working instrument. What is made before payment remains the property of the tool, and carrying it over into paid work the terms do not permit.
Do they train on your data
They do train by default, and this is said outright — together with the opt-out described.
The terms: "Recraft may use your Inputs you provide and the Assets produced by the Services to train, fine-tune, and otherwise improve Recraft's artificial intelligence models… This training use is enabled by default, but you may opt out at any time by adjusting your preferences in your account profile settings".
The privacy policy adds about other people's models: "We shall not use and shall not permit our third-party AI service providers… to train… using your AI Input or AI Output… unless you have affirmatively authorized". For the API the reservation is separate and stronger: "Recraft will not use any Assets created using the API Services for training purposes".
The upshot: its own models learn on your material until you switch this off in the profile; other people's — only with your consent; through the API — they do not learn.
How you earn with it
The right to sell what is made differs by plan, and the difference is a direct one. The terms on the free tier: "no commercial use of Free Tier Assets is permitted", and there as well — "Free Tier Assets are owned by Recraft and may not be sold, licensed or transferred". A picture from the free plan may be neither sold, nor handed over, nor licensed, and it belongs to the tool.
About the paid plans the opposite is said: "You own all Assets you create with the Services and Recraft hereby assigns to you all copyright rights it may have in the Assets", the use being "for business or personal use". Ownership is direct, and commercial work is called by its own name.
Carrying what is made on the free plan over into paid work the terms do not permit: the division is drawn by the plan on which the image was created, not by the plan you are on now.
One ban operates above both plans: "Assets may not be used to train artificial intelligence models". Selling the pictures the terms do not stand in the way of; selling them as training material for models they forbid.
What it will not do
It will not let you work free of charge for business: the output of the free plan belongs to the tool, commercial use is directly forbidden, and the images are visible to everyone in the common gallery.
It will not show the price in advance — the values are substituted in by a script. Nor will it let you calculate how many pictures a plan will yield: the cost of an operation is variable. It will not keep credits from last month, and will allow buying more only on Basic and Pro.
It will not publish to social networks itself: only an API is announced.
It will not permit training models on its output — the ban applies on all plans. Nor will it let you remove or hide the embedded marks of provenance.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
an image generator and editor: text to picture with the "Recraft V4.1" model, "complex editable vector graphics" with editable layout and typography, one's own reusable styles ("custom styles"), a photo editor, background removal, an eraser, resolution upscaling, a mockup generator; a separate Recraft Studio environment and an API
the description is from the main features page
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The Recraft help centre, the «Language and character support» section, verbatim: «Recraft supports any Unicode text input, so you can use a wide range of characters and languages in your prompts. The model performs best with prompts written in English, but also demonstrates strong comprehension of:» — followed by «Major European languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Russian», «East Asian languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean», «Selected Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern languages: Vietnamese, Thai, Arabic»; «Other languages are supported as well, though results may be less accurate for less commonly used or low-resource languages». Russian, Chinese and Arabic are named outright; HINDI is NOT named in the list and falls into the «other» category
the help centre's HTML is delivered by script, so the text was read from the official machine-readable dump of the same documentation on the same host — https://www.recraft.ai/docs/llms-full.txt (the address is given in the service's own sitemap and is not closed in robots.txt); no bot checks were circumvented
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Platforms
an API is announced: "The Recraft API provides programmatic access to image and vector generation, editing, background removal, inpainting, outpainting, batch jobs, and asynchronous processing", the models "V2, V3, V4 and V4.1" are available through the API; no export to social networks or third-party platforms is announced on the pages
the publishing platforms are not announced, only an API is announced
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Pricing
$12.00/month — the Basic plan on MONTHLY billing (1000 credits a month, commercial rights, private generations). The same plan paid yearly — $120.00/year. The next tier, Pro 2K — $20.00/month ($192.00/year). The currency is USD. There is a permanent free plan ($0), but works on it belong to Recraft and give no commercial use
the page https://www.recraft.ai/pricing inserts the amounts by script and they are not in the HTML; the figures were taken from the service's own open product endpoint — the same price list that feeds the page: {«name»:«Basic», «prices»:({«amount»:1200,«currency»:«usd»,«recurring»:{«interval»:«month»}}, {«amount»:12000,...«year»})}, with the amounts in cents. There is no robots.txt for api.recraft.ai (404), so there is no prohibition; captchas and tokens were not touched
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a Free plan is announced; under the terms of use what is created on it is "Free Tier Assets", they "are owned by Recraft and may not be sold, licensed or transferred", "no commercial use of Free Tier Assets is permitted"; the pricing page adds that such images "are publicly visible in the community gallery"; the markup of the pricing page shows a restriction of "3 per day on Free" for uploading images
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the pricing page announces a "Pay monthly / Pay annually (save 20%)" switch, a "Plans / API" split and the plan names Free, Basic, Pro and the team plan Teams ("Advanced controls & support to run your team"); the prices themselves are absent from the page markup — they are loaded by script, so it was not possible to check them by a request
the prices are not recorded because they are not in the text of the page; the plan names are taken from the markup of the pricing page
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Limits and restrictions
the pricing page describes how the limit is arranged in words: "Subscription credits are included in your plan and reset at the start of each billing cycle — unused credits don’t roll over", "Top-up credits are purchased separately, never expire, and are used automatically once your monthly credits run out", "Top-ups are only available to users on Basic and Pro plans"; the cost of an operation varies: "Credit costs vary depending on the type of action and the model used"; the numeric credit volumes by plan are not output in the page markup
the unit of the limit is credits; the numbers are substituted by script and are not visible to a request
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Restrictions
Terms of Service, the «Rules and Conduct» section: forbidden are acts which (i) break the law, «including without limitation any laws, rules or regulations relating to transparency and marking of AI-generated content»; (ii) infringe others' IP rights, «any right or privacy or right of publicity»; (iii) are «threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, obscene, offensive, furthering of self-harm, or profane»; (iv) create material exploiting children; (v) «generates or disseminates verifiably false information with the purpose of harming others»; (vi) «impersonates or attempts to impersonate others»; (vii) «generates or disseminates personally identifying or identifiable information»; (viii) imply support for a terrorist organisation; (ix) justify or encourage violence on protected grounds. Images of real people are not forbidden outright, but impersonation and infringement of image and privacy rights are. About politics and medical advice the terms are silent
Recraft has no separate Acceptable Use Policy; in addition the ToS forbid using any Assets to train someone else's AI models
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Legal
the terms distinguish between the plans. The free one: "Assets generated by Free Tier users are Free Tier Assets", a licence "for your personal use" with the restrictions "(i) no commercial use of Free Tier Assets is permitted; (ii) Free Tier Assets are owned by Recraft and may not be sold, licensed or transferred; and (iii) Free Tier Assets may not be used to train artificial intelligence models". The paid one: "You own all Assets you create with the Services and Recraft hereby assigns to you all copyright rights it may have in the Assets", use "for business or personal use", with the caveat "Assets may not be used to train artificial intelligence models"
an unexpected condition: on the free plan the result belongs to the tool itself, commercial use is directly prohibited
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the terms: "You acknowledge and agree that Recraft may use your Inputs you provide and the Assets produced by the Services to train, fine-tune, and otherwise improve Recraft’s artificial intelligence models and systems. This training use is enabled by default, but you may opt out at any time by adjusting your preferences in your account profile settings"; the privacy policy adds: "We shall not use and shall not permit our third-party AI service providers… to train, fine-tune, or otherwise improve any machine learning or artificial intelligence models using your AI Input or AI Output… unless you have affirmatively authorized", "We may use such information to train Recraft’s own proprietary AI models, but you may disallow such use… by opting out in your account profile settings"; separately for the API: "Recraft will not use any Assets created using the API Services for training purposes"
training is enabled by default, the opt-out is in the profile settings; checked https://www.recraft.ai/terms and https://www.recraft.ai/privacy
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the terms contain a section "Transparency and Marking of AI-Generated Content": the tool "may (i) embed machine-readable metadata, watermarks, or other provenance information into Assets generated by the Services; (ii) make available or link to a tool that enables users and third parties to detect whether content was generated by the Services; and (iii) provide features that allow you to apply visible overlays, labels, or watermarks to Assets", the user undertakes "not remove, obscure, disable, or alter any machine-readable metadata, watermarks"; the abbreviation C2PA is not used in the text
the labelling is described directly, but the name of the C2PA standard is not in the terms
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Everyone has an opt-out and it is switched on in the profile settings. Terms of Service, the «Licenses to Recraft» section, verbatim: «You acknowledge and agree that Recraft may use your Inputs you provide and the Assets produced by the Services to train, fine-tune, and otherwise improve Recraft's artificial intelligence models and systems. This training use is enabled by default, but you may opt out at any time by adjusting your preferences in your account profile settings»; and in the same place «if you opt out of training, the images you upload to the Service will not be used to train Recraft's image-generating model». The Privacy Policy adds that THIRD-PARTY AI providers are forbidden to train on the user's data at all — «unless you have affirmatively authorized and configured the Services to permit such use». AN IMPORTANT CAVEAT AS TO PLANS: works on the free plan belong to Recraft, are published in the shared gallery and fall under a separate clause, «Recraft may use Community Assets, including any modifications made to Community Assets to train Recraft models or systems». Through the API there is no training at all: «Recraft will not use any Assets created using the API Services for training purposes»
the opt-out option is described consistently in the ToS and in the Privacy Policy (https://www.recraft.ai/legal/privacy); the robots.txt of www.recraft.ai was read in full — the personal sections (/projects, /history, /community, /styles, /profile) are closed, while /legal, /pricing and /docs are open
source, checked 2026-08-07
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