Recraft V4.1 Flash
Recraft V4.1 Flash is the fast, low-cost tier of Recraft's V4.1 model, released in September 2026. It makes 1K raster images only: Recraft's docs list no vector or Pro variant for it, and no styles, style references, negative prompt, text layout or image input, so there is nothing to edit with. What it keeps from V4.1 is the colour controls, a palette and a background colour. Recraft calls it its fastest and cheapest API model, at about 1.3 seconds an image, with quality close to V4.1. On fal it costs $0.007 an image.
Anvisha Pai, Co-founder & CEO, Voyager
Recraft
›What we asked for
A self-portrait of Recraft V4.1 Flash, a fast design-focused image model: a flat editorial illustration of a paper airplane trailing a ribbon of colour swatches across a pale sky, bold geometric shapes, limited palette of coral, teal and cream, clean negative space.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1360,"height":1024}, num_images: 1
returned 1216 by 896 pixels
At a glance
- Price
- $0.007 an image on fal, a fifth of V4.1's $0.035.
- Sizes
- 1K raster only, at Recraft's own sizes: 1024 square, 896 by 1216 at 3:4, 1216 by 896 at 4:3, and 1536 by 768 when we asked for 21:9.
- What it drops
- No styles, style references, negative prompt, text layout, vector output or image input. Palette and background colour remain.
- Speed
- Recraft says about 1.3 seconds. Through fal we measured 2.2 to 20.9 seconds a picture, median about 11.
- No editing
- There is no image input at all, so the edit prompt below could not be run.
Other Recraft models: Recraft V4.1, Recraft V3. Compare all 3.
Anvisha's take
For seven tenths of a cent, Flash still has Recraft's taste. The poster is a real risograph design, all three lines correct, and the logo is a minimal mark with a clean wordmark. The woodblock print, with its engraved waves and teal bokashi sky, is one of the more convincing on the roster, and the five-object composition came out right, which V4.1 itself missed. Its failures are about following instructions: the wide banner filled its empty left half with nonsense headline text ('Waciefpnsdsatwetore'), the chart's axis is just the data values stacked up and every bar climbs, so April outranks March, and the infographic invented a wrong first step and a footnote. Speed was not what Recraft advertises through fal: four pictures took 2 to 5 seconds, the rest 10 to 21. Use it for cheap design exploration, not for anything that has to say exactly what you wrote.
Recraft V4.1 Flash real output: the same 12 prompts every model gets
Every image model on this site gets the same 12 prompts, so you can compare like with like. These are the pictures Recraft V4.1 Flash returned, one try each, nothing re-rolled or retouched. Generated on . The 11 pictures took 2 to 21 seconds each and cost $0.077 in total.
Spelling, kerning and hierarchy of three lines of set text.
›What we asked for
A concert poster that reads 'MODA SUMMER SESSIONS' in large bold type, with the subtitle 'Friday 12 June, 8pm, Roundhouse' and a smaller line 'Tickets at the door'. Risograph style, two colours, tangerine and navy, grainy ink texture.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1024,"height":1360}, num_images: 1
returned 896 by 1216 pixels
Catalogue lighting, a clean seamless background and a believable contact shadow.
›What we asked for
Studio product photograph of a matte black ceramic pour-over coffee dripper on a seamless white background, soft top light, subtle contact shadow, centred, catalogue style.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1024,"height":1024}, num_images: 1
returned 1024 by 1024 pixels
A natural face, correct finger count and hands holding an object.
›What we asked for
Close-up portrait of a woman in her 40s with short grey hair, laughing, holding a red ceramic mug with both hands, natural window light, 85mm lens, shallow depth of field.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1024,"height":1360}, num_images: 1
returned 896 by 1216 pixels
A flat single-colour mark with a legible wordmark and no gradients or photo texture.
›What we asked for
A flat vector logo mark for a bicycle repair shop called 'Spoke & Chain': a single-colour icon combining a chain link and a wheel spoke, with the wordmark below in a geometric sans-serif, black on white.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1024,"height":1024}, num_images: 1
returned 1024 by 1024 pixels
Many distinct objects and people in one frame without merging or duplicating them.
›What we asked for
A crowded Saturday farmers market seen from slightly above: at least twelve stalls with striped awnings, shoppers carrying tote bags, a dog on a leash, crates of oranges, a musician with a guitar, bunting overhead, late morning light.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1360,"height":1024}, num_images: 1
returned 1216 by 896 pixels
A named historical style applied faithfully rather than a generic painterly look.
›What we asked for
A lighthouse on a rocky cliff during a storm, in the style of a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print, with visible wood grain texture, flat colour areas and a bokashi gradient sky.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1024,"height":1360}, num_images: 1
returned 896 by 1216 pixels
Six labelled bars at the stated heights, in order, with readable axes.
›What we asked for
A clean bar chart titled 'Monthly active users' showing six months, January through June, with the values 120, 150, 180, 170, 220 and 260, labelled axes, white background, one accent colour, no 3D effects.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1360,"height":1024}, num_images: 1
returned 1216 by 896 pixels
A 21:9 composition that leaves the left third clear for headline text.
›What we asked for
Website hero banner: a wide panorama of a sunlit modern co-working space with plants, the left third of the frame kept as clear wall space for text, warm neutral palette.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":2016,"height":864}, num_images: 1
returned 1536 by 768 pixels
Four numbered steps in the given order with their exact wording, plus an icon each.
›What we asked for
An infographic card titled 'How to brew pour-over' with four numbered steps in this order: 1. Rinse the filter, 2. Bloom for 30 seconds, 3. Pour in slow circles, 4. Wait 3 minutes. A simple icon beside each step, muted palette, clean sans-serif type.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1024,"height":1360}, num_images: 1
returned 896 by 1216 pixels
Appetising, menu-grade food with correct textures and no melted anatomy.
›What we asked for
Overhead photograph of a margherita pizza on a wooden board, fresh basil leaves, one slice pulled out with the cheese stretching, restaurant menu photography, natural light.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1024,"height":1024}, num_images: 1
returned 1024 by 1024 pixels
Exact counts and left-right placement of five named objects.
›What we asked for
A glass of water on a wooden table with exactly three ice cubes in it, a yellow pencil resting across the rim of the glass, a blue book to the left of the glass and a red apple to the right, photographed from table height.
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
image_size: {"width":1360,"height":1024}, num_images: 1
returned 1216 by 896 pixels
Change one object's colour and add a part while leaving background, light and framing untouched.
›What we asked for
Change the coffee dripper to a deep forest green and add a small brass handle on its right side. Keep the background, lighting and composition exactly as they are. (applied to the product on white result above)
recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image
How the cost under each picture was worked out: fal's flat $0.007 per image for Recraft V4.1 Flash (fal.ai/models/recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image, read 2026-10-22); fal does not return the charge.
Compare Recraft V4.1 Flash
Recraft V4.1 Flash pricing
| Where | Unit | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fal | Image Flat per generated image. | $0.007 | fal model page, read |
| Recraft API | Image Six images cost $0.042, per Recraft's docs. | $0.007 | Recraft API docs, read |
Is Recraft V4.1 Flash free?
No free API tier. Recraft's own app has a free plan, but free-plan images are owned by Recraft, licensed for personal use only and may not be used to train AI models.
- •Recraft app, free plan: Recraft owns the images; personal, non-commercial use only.
- •Recraft app, paid plans: you own what you make.
- •API and fal: $0.007 an image.
Recraft terms of service, read
Where to use Recraft V4.1 Flash
- Recraft API · Recraft's own API, raster only.
- fal · recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image, flat price per image; the endpoint used for the samples below.
- Voyager · Runs inside Voyager, the agent for creative work, with your own fal key.
Voyager
Run Recraft V4.1 Flash inside Voyager
Voyager is an agent for creative work that runs every model in this reference, Recraft V4.1 Flash included. Brief it, and it picks the model, makes the thing and hands back something you can edit. Create an account to get started.
What we noticed running Recraft V4.1 Flash
- •The left half is filled with nonsense placeholder copy, a headline reading 'Waciefpnsdsatwetore' and three lines of gibberish. The 21:9 request came back at 1536 by 768, 2:1. See the wide aspect ratio picture.
- •The axis is the data values themselves (120, 150, 180, 220, 260) at even spacing, there are no bar labels, and every bar is taller than the one before, so April outranks March. See the chart picture.
- •All three lines correct in a two-colour risograph layout with an eye and four circles; 'Tickets at the door' is set small in the corner. See the text in an image picture.
- •Four headings exact with an icon each, plus invented sub-lines, one of them wrong ('Wet the grounds with water' under rinsing the filter), and a footnote nobody asked for. See the infographic with steps picture.
- •Book left, apple right, three round ice cubes and the pencil across the rim. V4.1 stood the pencil in the glass on the same prompt. See the hard composition picture.
- •Engraved waves, cross-hatched cliffs and a teal bokashi band: closer to a print than V4.1's black-and-white linocut. See the specific art style picture.
- •A minimal half-wheel with a spoke and a link, and a clean 'Spoke & Chain' wordmark with no tagline. See the logo mark picture.
- •Striped awnings, bunting, tote bags, oranges and a seated busker with a guitar, but no dog that we could find. See the busy scene picture.
- •A ribbed cone on a base with a pouring lip it was not asked for, and no handle. See the product on white picture.
- •The self-portrait printed 'Recraft V4.1 Flash' under the illustration as a caption.
Recraft V4.1 Flash limits and API parameters
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| Output | 1K raster images, WebP or PNG; no vector or Pro variant. Recraft API docs, read |
| Unsupported controls | style, style_id, style_match, style references, negative_prompt and text_layout; image-to-image and create-style are unsupported. Recraft API docs, read |
| Edits | No edit endpoint on fal; the fal page describes text-to-image only. fal model page, read |
›Every setting, for developers
fal (recraft/v4.1/flash/text-to-image)
fal API schema, read
| Parameter | Type | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| prompt | string | Up to 10,000 characters Required. | |
| image_size | enum or object | square_hd, square, portrait_4_3, portrait_16_9, landscape_4_3, landscape_16_9, or {width, height} Snapped to Recraft's own sizes in our run. | square_hd |
| colors | list of RGB | Preferred colours | |
| background_color | RGB | Preferred background colour | |
| enable_safety_checker | boolean | true, false Turning it off needs account authorisation. | true |
What Recraft V4.1 Flash will not draw
Recraft's terms bar content that exploits children, non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes of real people, impersonation, election deception involving real people, and promoting terrorism or violence against protected groups. For design work, two rules matter: free-plan images belong to Recraft and are for personal use only, and no generated asset may be used to train AI models. Recraft trains on your inputs and outputs by default unless you opt out in your profile.
Recraft terms of service, read
Alternatives to Recraft V4.1 Flash
Frequently asked questions
What is Recraft V4.1 Flash?
The fastest and cheapest tier of Recraft's V4.1, released in September 2026: 1K raster images only, with colour controls but no styles, vector output or image input.
How much does Recraft V4.1 Flash cost?
$0.007 an image on fal and on Recraft's API, read on 22 October 2026.
Can Recraft V4.1 Flash make SVG or edit images?
No. Recraft lists no vector variant for Flash and no image input, so neither vectors nor edits are possible. V4.1's Vector variant makes SVG.
Recraft V4.1 Flash or V4.1?
Flash for cheap layout and style exploration; it set our poster correctly and placed the composition test right. V4.1 when you need styles or vectors. Neither left the banner's copy space empty.
How this page is made
Prices, limits and settings are read from the linked vendor and host pages on the dates shown. Every picture was generated by us through fal with the request shown under it, and the original files are kept unedited. A generation that failed is shown as a failure. Model and vendor names are used to identify the products; no vendor imagery appears on this page.
