How much does Recraft cost?

Free is $0 with limited credits, public images and no commercial use. Basic is $12 a month, or $10 billed yearly, for 1,000 credits. Pro is $20, or $16 yearly, for 2,000 with a slider to 16,000 and video models. Teams is $22 a seat, or $18 yearly. Prices exclude VAT.

Is Visual Sandbox cheaper than Recraft?

Nobody can say per image, because Recraft's pricing page does not print credit costs per model. Visual Sandbox prints $0.09 for a Nano Banana 2 image and $0.02 for a vectorized SVG, and costs $0 in a month you do not create.

Does Visual Sandbox run Recraft models?

It runs Recraft Vectorize at $0.02 an SVG and Remove Background at $0.02 an image. It does not run the Recraft V4.1 image model.

Do Visual Sandbox credits expire?

No. There is no monthly reset. Money you add to the balance stays until you spend it.

All comparisons

Visual Sandbox vs Recraft

One made the vectorizer. One sells it per SVG.

In short

Recraft plans run $12 to $22 a month for 1,000 or 2,000 credits, with a slider up.
Free is public, personal use and Recraft models only.
The pricing page does not say what one image costs in credits.
We resell Recraft's vectorizer at $0.02 an SVG. No plan.

Our take. Use Recraft for its own models and a designer's studio. Use Visual Sandbox for a price per run and the vectorizer by the SVG.

See a model's price

Recraft

Recraft is an image and vector studio for designers with its own Recraft models, style control, and third-party image and video models on the paid plans.

Pricing: $12 to $22 a month, in credits
Free plan: Yes, public, no commercial use
Also does: Recraft V4.1, vectors, styles, video on Pro

Side by side

The same 9 questions, asked of Recraft

Visual Sandbox compared with Recraft, question by question
What is compared	Visual Sandbox	Recraft
What you pay for	Each generation	A monthly credit plan
What the balance is in	Money. One credit is one cent	Credits, $0.012 each on Basic. Costs per operation vary
Free tier	None. A $10 minimum top up	Limited credits, public images owned by Recraft, no commercial use
Cheapest paid tier	There is no plan	Basic, $12 a month, or $10 billed yearly
A month you make nothing	$0	The plan price
The price before you run	A dollar figure on every model page, before you sign in	Credit totals per plan. Costs per model on a separate page
Working as a team	Not offered	Teams, $22 a seat a month, shared styles, SSO
From the terminal or an agent	A CLI, an MCP server and an API, on the same balance	An API billed in prepaid API Units, apart from the plan
The catalogue	37 models	Recraft V2 to V4.1, plus Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image, Flux, and video models on Pro

Key takeaways

Is Visual Sandbox a good Recraft alternative?

Where we win

No subscription: Nothing to cancel. A quiet month costs $0.
Recraft's vectorizer, per SVG: Recraft Vectorize at $0.02 an SVG and Remove Background at $0.02, no plan.
A dollar price before you sign in: Nano Banana 2 reads $0.09 at 1K. Quiver Arrow reads $0.25 an SVG.
One balance for the API too: The CLI, the MCP server and the API spend the same cents. Recraft's API is prepaid API Units.
Video, 3D and audio too: Veo 3.1 at $0.25 a second, Hunyuan 3D 3.1 at $0.63.

Where Recraft wins

Its own models: Recraft V4.1 for raster and vector, with a Style Library and custom styles.
A designer's studio: Custom palettes, Magic wand, creative upscale, editing templates, up to 20 images a run.
Video on Pro: Kling, Grok Imagine, Veo, Sora and Seedance from $20 a month.
A free plan: Three generations per style a day, public, Recraft models only.
Cheap entry: $12 a month, or $10 billed yearly, with commercial rights.

Worth checking

Nobody prices the image: Credit costs 'vary by model' and sit on a separate External Models page.
Free images are Recraft's: Their FAQ: images on the Free plan are owned by Recraft and public.
Full use is the condition: Spend half of Basic and a credit costs $0.024. Spend none and Basic costs $12.
Prices exclude VAT: The page says so under the cards.
We have no Recraft image model: We resell the vectorizer and the background remover, not V4.1.

A studio or a run

The price is on the page before the first run

This is the live price card off our Nano Banana 2 page. Recraft sells the same model inside a credit plan and keeps the cost per image on another page.

No account needed to read it.
Recraft Basic is $12 for 1,000 credits, at $0.012 each.
A quiet month here costs $0.

Recraft sells the month. We sell the run.

Nano Banana 2

What one run costs, before any account

1K: $0.09 / image
2K: $0.13 / image
4K: $0.19 / image

See it on the model page

The money

What the plans cost

Recraft does not publish a credit cost per image on its pricing page, so this table stops at the plan, the credits and the price of one credit.

$0.09

Visual Sandbox

Nano Banana 2 at 1K, in any month.

$0.012

Recraft Basic, a credit

$12 for 1,000, at full use.

$0.02

Visual Sandbox, an SVG

Recraft Vectorize, per file, no plan.

Recraft plan	A month	Billed yearly	Credits a month	Unlocks
Free	$0	$0	Limited	Recraft models, public, personal use
Basic	$12	$10	1,000	Nano Banana, Seedream, GPT Image, Flux; commercial rights
Pro	$20	$16	2,000, slider to 16,000	Video models, priority
Teams	$22 a seat	$18 a seat	2,000 a seat	Shared workspace, SSO, 24/7 support

Twelve dollars here buys 133 Nano Banana 2 images at 1K, or 600 vectorized SVGs, in any month.
Recraft's API is billed in prepaid API Units, separate from subscription credits and non-cancelable. Ours spends the same balance as the web app.
Yearly totals are $120, $192 and $211 a seat.

Which one fits

Which one fits you?

Four questions. The answer names Recraft when Recraft is the right call.

01 of 04

Do you want Recraft's own image model?

Or use both

Recraft covers its own models and the studio. We cover the priced run and the rest of the media.

01
Keep Recraft Basic for V4.1 and the styles.
02
Vectorize and remove backgrounds here, at two cents a file.
03
Run video, 3D and audio here, per run.

The call

Which one to pick

Pick Visual Sandbox when

You want the vectorizer and background remover by the file.
You want to know the price per image before you run.
You want an agent to generate through the CLI or the MCP server on the same balance.
You want video, 3D and audio next to image and vector.
You do not want another subscription.