Recraft V4 - Kyma API

Overview

Recraft V4 is a text-to-image generator from Recraft that ranks at the top of the HF Arena. It focuses on design-aware composition, lighting, and textures, making it suitable for brand assets and illustrations. On Kyma, it operates as a frontier-open model in the cheap cost tier with medium generation speed. It accepts text prompts and returns images via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint using a single API key. Requests benefit from automatic failover if a serving path degrades, and exact usage costs are returned in the response payload. Prompt caching applies to repeated prefixes, billing them at this model’s cached input rate. The model does not support vision inputs, reasoning, or structured outputs. It is strictly a text-to-image pipeline, and token-based context limits do not apply.

Specs

Field	Value
Model ID	`recraft-v4`
Best for	Design-quality default, brand assets, illustration
Context window	0
Input modalities	Text
Output modalities	Image
Tool calling	Yes
Structured outputs	Yes
Prompt caching	Yes
Speed	Medium
Cost band	Cheap
Release stage	Stable

Pricing

	Per 1M tokens
Input	$0.20
Output	$0.60

Use this when

Brand asset generation — Create consistent marketing visuals and logos from text descriptions.
Editorial illustration creation — Produce design-aware artwork with controlled lighting and textures.
Rapid UI prototyping — Generate placeholder images for interface mockups and design workflows.
Commercial stock imagery — Output high-quality images for product catalogs and web content.

Not ideal for

Do not use this model for tasks requiring image understanding, multi-step reasoning, or structured JSON outputs, as it only accepts text prompts and generates images.

Pick something else when

You need vector graphics output: use recraft-v4-vector or recraft-v4-vector-pro.
You need faster image generation: use imagen-4-fast or flux-1.1-ultra.
You need image-to-image editing: use flux-kontext-pro or recraft-v4-pro.

Example

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://kymaapi.com/v1", api_key="ky-...")

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="recraft-v4",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "..."}],
)

Agent query example

Ask the API which models fit, instead of hardcoding an id:

curl "https://kymaapi.com/v1/models?recommended_for=generate-images&tools=true&quality_tier=frontier-open"

FAQ

Does Recraft V4 support image inputs or vision tasks? No. It only accepts text prompts and outputs images. For vision or multimodal inputs, choose a different model. How does prompt caching affect billing on Kyma? Repeated prompt prefixes are billed at this model’s cached input rate, reducing costs for workflows that reuse system prompts or style guides. What happens if the generation endpoint experiences latency? Kyma automatically reroutes the request to a healthy serving path, so you do not need to implement manual retry logic.

​Overview

​Specs

​Pricing

​Use this when

​Not ideal for

​Pick something else when

​Example

​Agent query example

​FAQ