
Recraft makes AI images you can export as SVG vector files. That means you can scale them to any size, edit them in Figma or Illustrator, and drop them straight into a website. Very few image generators can do that. Its regular images are strong too: on Hugging Face's Text-to-Image Arena, it beat Midjourney and DALL-E 3 in 72% of comparisons. V4 Styles, released in August 2026, keeps the style consistent across a batch. That matters if you're making a set of icons, social cards or brand graphics that need to look like they belong together. The free plan includes every model: Standard, Pro, Vector and Vector Pro. The results look like a designer planned them, not like stock images.
Recraft does something very few image generators even try: real vector output. Most give you a flat image file. Recraft gives you something you can open in Illustrator, scale up to billboard size and send to print. That alone earns it a place here.
Its regular images are strong too. V4.1 ranks ahead of Midjourney and DALL-E 3 on Hugging Face's Text-to-Image Arena. Other models are catching up, with FLUX and Imagen 3 both improving, so the vector output is what really keeps Recraft different.
Best for freelancers and small businesses making their own logos, icons and brand graphics. If you need photorealistic images, or you never work with vectors, Midjourney or Ideogram will serve you better.