Recraft V4.1 Flash V2 is free on OpenRouter

Recraft’s V4.1 Flash V2 now has a free text-to-image route on OpenRouter, with no charge for generated images. It is the speed-tier model in the Recraft V4.1 family, built for rapid prototyping and high-volume generation, and it improves how text is rendered inside images.

What you can use

The OpenRouter model ID is recraft/recraft-v4.1-flash-v2:free. This route accepts text prompts and returns images. It does not support image-to-image, styles, or style references. Supported aspect ratios include 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, and 9:16, and you can generate up to 6 images per request. You can also set a color palette with rgb_colors and a background color with background_rgb_color in image_config.

The OpenRouter free endpoint allows up to 20 requests per minute; if you have purchased fewer than 10 Credits, you get up to 50 requests per day, and after purchasing at least 10 Credits the daily cap rises to 1,000. No end date has been announced. Prompts and generated results on the free route may be used to improve the model.

This is not a credit grant from Recraft’s own API. Recraft bills that API per image, using the model value recraftv4_1_flash_v2, at about $0.007 per image. OpenRouter also has a paid route with the same name and no :free suffix, so keep the suffix when you call this one.

How to use

1. Create an OpenRouter API key.
2. Send the request to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/images, set the model to recraft/recraft-v4.1-flash-v2:free, and put what you want to generate in prompt.

Details: the OpenRouter model page, OpenRouter image generation docs, OpenRouter free-endpoint limits, and Recraft’s official model page.