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Recraft

Recraft is a London-based AI design platform — founded in 2023 by Anna Veronika Dorogush (creator of the CatBoost ML framework) — that builds production-grade image and vector generation models tailored for professional designers and brands. Its Recraft V4.1, V4, V3, and V2 models generate photorealistic raster images, true SVG vector graphics, logos, icons, and seamless patterns with strong control over style, custom brand styles, color palettes, and text placement. The Recraft API exposes prompt-to-image, vector generation, image-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, vectorization, background tooling, upscaling, custom style creation, prompt enhancement, and account inspection over HTTPS with Bearer token authentication and an OpenAI-compatible request shape, complemented by hosted and self-hosted Model Context Protocol servers for use from Claude and other agentic AI clients.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Recraft the way a machine reads it — 45 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Recraft scores 67.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 67.5/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Recraft

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Recraft. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Recraft MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server giving Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients access to Recraft's image and vector generation, editing, custom styles, vectorization, background too...

Recraft Images API

The Images API from Recraft — 16 operation(s) for images.

Recraft Prompts API

The Prompts API from Recraft — 1 operation(s) for prompts.

Recraft Styles API

The Styles API from Recraft — 1 operation(s) for styles.

Recraft Users API

The Users API from Recraft — 1 operation(s) for users.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Recraft Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Recraft Ai Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 23

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Recraft V4.1 (May 2026) — flagship raster + vector image model with sharper, more polished output
Pro and Utility variants of V4.1 — higher resolution Pro at 2x standard size, Utility for general-purpose
Recraft V4, V3, V2 — full back-catalog of raster and vector image generation models
External models in Studio — Flux, Ideogram, GPT Image, HiDream, Imagen, Qwen Image, Seedream, Grok, Nano Banana
Vector generation — true SVG output with editable paths and design-ready typography
100+ curated styles across photorealism, illustration, vector art, logos and icons, seamless patterns
Custom styles — upload up to five reference images to mint a reusable style_id (V3 compatible)
Brand controls — RGB color palettes, background colors, no-text flag, artistic level
Image-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, replace background, generate background, erase region, variate
Vectorize raster to SVG, crisp upscale, creative upscale
Exploration and similar-exploration endpoints for creative discovery
Prompt enhancement endpoint to expand short prompts with visual context
Bearer-token authentication, OpenAI Python SDK compatible request shape
14 supported aspect ratios per model; V4/V4.1 accept 10,000 character prompts
Per-user limits of 100 images/min and 5 requests/sec, generated assets retained ~24h
Credit-based metering at USD $1.00 = 1,000 API units
Studio surface (recraft.ai/projects) with mockup generator, color palettes, frames, agentic mode, video
Remote MCP server at https://mcp.recraft.ai/mcp (OAuth, billed against subscription credits)
Local MCP server (Node.js, billed against API units) — open source on GitHub
ComfyUI node — integrates Recraft into ComfyUI graphs
SOC 2-audited processes, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access
London-headquartered, founded 2023 by Anna Veronika Dorogush (creator of CatBoost)
Customers include Asana, HubSpot, Ogilvy, Airbus, Netflix, Microsoft

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Recraft Ai Context

31 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Recraft API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Recraft Image

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Recraft Style

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 4

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Recraft Ai Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Recraft Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Recraft Ai Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Recraft Ai Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Recraft Ai Agentic Access

19 operations · 18 acting

19 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Recraft — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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