Recraft V4.1 Flash

Not yet independently verified. The release date, the speed figures and the price all come from Recraft’s own blog post and pricing page. No independent report of this model was found, and no independent quality measurement of it was available when this was read on 24 September 2026. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

Recraft V4.1 Flash is the fastest and cheapest model in Recraft’s V4.1 text-to-image family, announced on Recraft’s blog on 23 September 2026 for Recraft Studio and the Recraft API (model id recraftv4_1_flash_raster). It produces raster images only, not vectors. Recraft’s own tests put the median generation time at 1.3 seconds through the API. The API price is $0.007 per image, against $0.035 for standard V4.1 raster generation and $0.21 for V4.1 Pro on the same pricing page — a fifth of the standard price, which is the number that matters for high-volume generation. Recraft positions it for iteration and prototyping, with a Refine step that re-renders a chosen Flash image through V4.1 Pro at 2048 × 2048 while keeping the composition, so the cheap model does the exploring and the expensive one only the finishing. Recraft has not published a parameter count, a native output resolution for Flash itself or any quality benchmark, and the speed figures are its own.