# Recraft V4

> Top of HF Arena (#1, beats Midjourney V8 / DALL-E 3 / FLUX). Design-aware composition, lighting, textures.

Human version: https://kymaapi.com/models/recraft-v4
Live JSON: `GET https://kymaapi.com/v1/models` (no auth required)

## Facts

- **Model ID**: `recraft-v4` — pass this as `model` in the request body
- **Creator**: Recraft
- **Released**: 2026-02-17
- **Price**: $0.054 / image

## Call it

```bash
curl https://kymaapi.com/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KYMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "recraft-v4", "prompt": "..."}'
```

## Positioning

Recraft V4 is a text-to-image model optimized for design-quality outputs, brand assets, and illustrations. Developers should reach for it when they need reliable, composition-aware image generation at a low cost.

## About

Recraft V4 is a text-to-image generator from Recraft that ranks at the top of the HF Arena. It focuses on design-aware composition, lighting, and textures, making it suitable for brand assets and illustrations.

On Kyma, it operates as a frontier-open model in the cheap cost tier with medium generation speed. It accepts text prompts and returns images via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint using a single API key. Requests benefit from automatic failover if a serving path degrades, and exact usage costs are returned in the response payload. Prompt caching applies to repeated prefixes, billing them at 10% of the standard input rate.

The model does not support vision inputs, reasoning, or structured outputs. It is strictly a text-to-image pipeline, and token-based context limits do not apply.

## Use cases

- **Brand asset generation** — Create consistent marketing visuals and logos from text descriptions.
- **Editorial illustration creation** — Produce design-aware artwork with controlled lighting and textures.
- **Rapid UI prototyping** — Generate placeholder images for interface mockups and design workflows.
- **Commercial stock imagery** — Output high-quality images for product catalogs and web content.

## Not ideal for

Do not use this model for tasks requiring image understanding, multi-step reasoning, or structured JSON outputs, as it only accepts text prompts and generates images.

## Pick something else when

- You need vector graphics output → `recraft-v4-vector`, `recraft-v4-vector-pro`
- You need faster image generation → `imagen-4-fast`, `flux-1.1-ultra`
- You need image-to-image editing → `flux-kontext-pro`, `recraft-v4-pro`

## See also

- All models: https://kymaapi.com/models.md
- Pricing: https://kymaapi.com/pricing.md
- Other models by Recraft: https://kymaapi.com/models?q=Recraft