Recraft V3 API providers and route evidence

Decision guide

How to compare Recraft V3 API providers

Recraft's official API identifies the raster model as recraftv3 and the vector model as recraftv3_vector. They are separate products with separate rates. APIDir's accepted provider scope maps the exact raster text-to-image route across fal, Replicate, and WaveSpeedAI and excludes vector, image-to-image, inpainting, background, and upscaling operations.

All three hosted channels publish four cents per raster image, so the price result is a three-way tie. Recraft's owner documentation independently confirms the model identity and the distinction between four-cent V3 raster generation and eight-cent V3 vector generation. The owner source establishes the boundary even though an owner-direct provider record is not added solely to inflate the channel count.

A flat price does not prove identical output settings. Providers can expose different size, aspect-ratio, style, safety, retention, and response-format controls. Compare text accuracy, brand consistency, latency, rate limits, failure behavior, and manual acceptance rate with the actual design workload.

What changes Recraft V3 API cost

• Raster versus vector model identity, output count, aspect ratio, size controls, and style
• Text-to-image versus image-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, or background operations
• Prompt retries, safety rejection, response format, asset storage, and delivery bandwidth
• Typography correction, brand review, human selection, and downstream design editing

Integration checks before production

• Pin recraftv3 and prohibit silent fallback to recraftv3_vector, V2, V4, or V4.1
• Validate raster style, dimensions or aspect ratio, output count, and response format before submission
• Expose provider validation and terminal errors with the request ID instead of swallowing them
• Store model, style, dimensions, output count, provider route, terminal state, and charged images

Workloads this comparison can inform

Brand illustration batches

Use the tied image meter as a baseline and compare prompt adherence, text accuracy, visual consistency, and human rejection rate.

Typography-heavy graphics

Include manual spelling and layout verification in delivered cost; a four-cent generation does not guarantee usable embedded text.

Editable vector deliverables

Select recraftv3_vector and its separate eight-cent meter. Raster evidence cannot price an SVG workflow.

How to read the price result

Three channels tie at the reviewed raster per-image meter. The result excludes every vector or editing operation and does not claim identical default pixel dimensions or service quality.

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