Recraft: 30 free image/vector credits per day
Source: https://www.recraft.ai/pricing
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+ 1 Recraft's Free plan gives every account 30 credits per day, refreshed every 24 hours. Credits can be spent on raster image generation, vector generation, mockups, AI edits (modify region, erase, recolor, upscale, vectorize, background removal). The same credit balance powers both the Recraft Studio (web UI) and the Recraft API, so the daily 30 credits are usable programmatically — no paid plan required to call the API. Referrals add +200 credits per friend, capped at 4,000 credits (20 referrals).
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+ 3 The big catch: Free-plan output is owned by Recraft, public (visible in the community gallery), and carries no commercial license. If you need to use generated assets in a product or for a client, you must upgrade to a paid plan — Free is for evaluation, learning, and personal exploration only.
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+ 9 1. Go to recraft.ai and click "Try for free" (or "Sign up" in the top-right).
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+ 10 2. Sign up with Google, Apple, or email + password. No credit card required.
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+ 11 3. You land in Recraft Studio with 30 credits already loaded. The counter resets every 24 hours from your first generation.
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+ 12 4. To use the API: open Profile menu → API → Generate Token (the API page is reachable from the user menu). Copy the bearer token.
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+ 13 5. Test it (OpenAI-compatible-style HTTP):
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+ 15 curl https://external.api.recraft.ai/v1/images/generations \
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-H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>" \
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-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
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-d '{"prompt":"a red panda on a skateboard","style":"digital_illustration"}'
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+ 21 Important:
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+ 22 • Free-plan API calls draw from the same 30/day pool as the web UI — spend wisely.
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+ 23 • Free plan caps image uploads at 3 per day and generates up to 2 images per prompt.
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+ 24 • No credit top-ups on Free — once 30 credits are gone, you wait 24 h or upgrade.
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+ 25 • Outputs are public in the community gallery and not licensed for commercial use.
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+ 31 Same for web UI and API.
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+ 33 OperationCredits
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+ 34 Generate raster image1
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+ 35 Generate vector image2
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+ 36 Vectorize existing image1
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+ 37 Generate mockup2
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+ 38 Convert image to mockup2
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+ 39 Modify region (raster)1
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+ 40 Modify region (vector)2
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+ 41 Erase region1
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+ 42 Remove background (raster)1
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+ 43 Remove background (vector)2
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+ 44 Crisp upscale1
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+ 45 Creative upscale20 (one near-full-day spend)
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+ 47 At 1 credit per raster image, 30/day ≈ ~900 raster images/month for free.
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+ 53 All Recraft v3 / v4 models are exposed through the API on every plan, including Free. Notable model IDs:
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• recraftv3 — flagship raster model, top of the Artificial Analysis text-to-image leaderboard at launch.
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• recraftv2 — previous-gen raster model.
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• Vector model — native SVG generation (vector_illustration, etc.). Recraft is one of the few APIs that produces real vector output, not raster-traced-to-SVG.
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• Style controls — digital_illustration, realistic_image, vector_illustration, plus dozens of substyles (digital_illustration/pixel_art, realistic_image/studio_portrait, etc.). Custom styles can be trained on paid plans.
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+ 60 Source: Recraft API page and Recraft API reference.
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+ 66 • Share your personal invite link from Profile → Invite friends.
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+ 67 • Invitee gets 200 credits when they sign up via your link on desktop.
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+ 68 • You get 200 credits once that invitee generates their first image.
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+ 69 • Hard cap: 4,000 credits per referrer — only the first 20 successful referrals count.
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+ 70 • Mobile-only signups don't trigger the bonus; the invitee must hit the link from desktop.
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+ 72 Source: Earn free credits with Recraft referrals.
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+ 78 This is the single most important caveat of the Free plan:
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+ 80 • Recraft owns the images you generate on Free.
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+ 81 • Your generations are public in the community gallery — anyone can see and reuse them.
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+ 82 • No commercial license. You may not use Free-plan output in client work, products, ads, merch, or anywhere money changes hands.
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+ 83 • To get private generations + full commercial rights + ownership, upgrade to any paid plan (Basic starts at ~$10/mo at the time of writing).
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+ 85 If you only need free assets for personal experiments, Discord avatars, sketchbook ideas — Free is fine. For anything billable, treat the 30/day as a prototyping budget, not a production source.
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+ 91 • Daily reset is rolling, not midnight UTC — credits refresh 24 h after they were consumed, so spreading usage across the day works better than burning all 30 at once.
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+ 92 • Vector output is the killer feature for free — most other free image APIs (DALL·E, SDXL on free providers, etc.) only do raster. Recraft generates real editable SVGs.
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+ 93 • Don't burn 20 credits on Creative Upscale unless you're sure — it eats two-thirds of a day's allowance.
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+ 94 • API key lives forever — you can wire Recraft into n8n / Zapier / your own backend and let it sip 30 credits/day indefinitely.
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+ 95 • For commercial vector work at scale, compare against Vectorizer.AI, Adobe Firefly Vector, or paying for Recraft Basic ($10/mo for 1,000 credits + commercial license).
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+ 99 Sources:
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+ 100 • Recraft Pricing
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+ 101 • Recraft Free Plan Docs
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+ 102 • Recraft Referral Program Blog
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+ 103 • Recraft API
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+ 104 • Recraft API Reference
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