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Recraft

DESIGN
Velocity6.3

Recraft rents the frontier models and builds the thing they can't copy on top

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◆Current state
Recraft Studio keeps two tracks running at once. One is a model catalog it does not own — Seedream 5.0 Pro, Nano Banana 2 Lite, Gemini Omni Flash for video, and earlier Krea 2, Ideogram V4, and Cosmos 3 — all priced per generation in credits behind the Pro plans. The other is design tooling that belongs to Recraft: direct vector editing on canvas, photo-grade mockup compositing, and now a Design Agent that turns a prompt into a logo, palette, typography, and icon set saved as a reusable Design Kit.
◆Where it's heading
Hosting frontier models is becoming table stakes, and the entries show Recraft treating it that way — model adds arrive as short catalog notes with a credit price attached. The work with intent behind it is upward, into the layer where a design survives past one generation: editable vectors, persistent kits, an agent that produces a consistent set rather than a single image. The pricing moves point the same direction, with its own V4.1 family cut 12.5–16% and roughly doubled in speed while third-party models stay metered per generation.
◆Prediction
The Design Kit looks like the object the product will organize around next — kits applied to new generations, and the agent moving from free testing into the paid tiers. More third-party model additions are near-certain at this cadence and say little about direction.

◆Recent moves

  1. 13d ago

    Recraft Design Agent is now open for testing

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    The clearest move yet up from generation into design. Where the rest of the window adds models that make one asset at a time, this produces a coordinated set and keeps it as a reusable object — the Design Kit is the part a rented model catalog cannot supply.

  2. 19d ago

    Edit vectors directly in Recraft Studio

    Vectors become editable in place: double-click a shape to move anchor points, adjust curves, recolor individual shapes, duplicate elements across frames, and refine paths on canvas. It closes the round trip to an external editor, which is what a generation tool needs before designers will treat its output as a starting point rather than a final answer.

  3. 27d ago

    New image model: Seedream 5.0 Pro

    Another third-party image model added to the Pro catalog at 22 credits per generation. These entries follow a fixed template — model name, plan, credit price — and are best read as inventory maintenance rather than a change of direction.

  4. 28d ago

    Recraft Studio is now available in Simplified Chinese

    Simplified Chinese joins the Studio's language options, switchable from profile settings, with more languages described as in progress. It changes reach rather than capability, but it is the first localization signal in this window.

  5. 1mo ago

    New image model: Nano Banana 2 Lite

    A cheaper image model added to the Pro catalog at 7 credits per generation. Alongside the 22-credit Seedream option, it fills in the low end of the price ladder Recraft is assembling across hosted models.

  6. 1mo ago

    New video generation model: Gemini Omni Flash

    Video generation gets another hosted model, metered at 21 credits per second rather than per generation. Video remains a second modality bolted onto an image-first studio here — nothing in the entries yet connects it to the vector and Design Kit work.