Recraft
Ranked 20 of 22 image generation models by recommenders
People recommend Recraft for strong SVG and image generation from prompts. One critic notes that images made on the free plan are public and owned by Recraft.
People recommend Recraft for strong SVG and image generation from prompts. One critic notes that images made on the free plan are public and owned by Recraft.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Impressive SVG generation quality
“it sure seems like whatever black magic they use for SVG generation kicks ass”
Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?” “I tried their model and asking a few different svg of pelicans. it is INSANE.”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “Google releases Gemma 4 open models” “I liked the results of vectorizer.ai and recraft.ai”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “SVG Path Editor”
Other image generation models people recommend
The four most recommended other image generation models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nano Banana | 265 | 159 | 63% | 12 | 6 mo5 owners | — |
| gpt-image-1 | 79 | 79 | 50% | 12 | — | — |
| FLUX.2 | 66 | 51 | 56% | 10 | — | — |
| gpt-image-2 | 63 | 26 | 71% | 8 | — | Approved |
| RecraftThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the closest thing to actual art from an AI model at least that I've ever seen”
“Very thoughtful response from Recraft V4.1 Flash.”
“Images generated on the Free plan are public and owned by Recraft”
“it sure seems like whatever black magic they use for SVG generation kicks ass”
“I tried their model and asking a few different svg of pelicans. it is INSANE.”
“I used recraft.ai and iterated until I got something I liked.”
“I liked the results of vectorizer.ai and recraft.ai”
“The only dedicated GenAI SVG model that I'm familiar with is probably”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.