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Recraft V4 on AI Gateway

Recraft V4 just shipped on Vercel's AI Gateway. Professional designers now have native access to a text-to-image model built for production work—not prototypes.

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Why it matters

Recraft V4's availability on AI Gateway lowers friction for teams integrating specialized image generation into design workflows. The dual-tier model (standard + Pro) targets both iteration speed and print-ready asset production, expanding the AI-native design toolchain.

The key facts

9 to know
  1. Recraft V4 now available on Vercel AI Gateway

  2. Two model variants: V4 (faster, cost-efficient) and V4 Pro (high-resolution, print-ready)

  3. Improvements: photorealism, realistic skin, natural textures, reduced synthetic artifacts

  4. Built with input from working designers for professional design and marketing use cases

  5. AI Gateway provides unified API, usage tracking, cost management, retries, failover, observability, and intelligent provider routing

  6. Recraft V4 available on Vercel AI Gateway

  7. Two model tiers: V4 (cost-efficient) and V4 Pro (higher-resolution/print-ready)

  8. Improvements: photorealism, realistic skin, natural textures, fewer synthetic artifacts

  9. AI Gateway features: unified API, usage tracking, cost management, retries, failover, intelligent provider routing

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Publisher excerpt: Recraft V4 is now available on AI Gateway. A text-to-image model built for professional design and marketing use cases, V4 was developed with input from working designers. The model has improvements with photorealism, with realistic skin, natural textures, and fewer synthetic artifacts. It also…
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