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Picsart AI Image Generator vs Recraft
Picsart AI Image Generator or Recraft? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Text to image, Edits images, Upscales, Style or character reference, Text in images, Commercial use, API, Mobile app
- Only Recraft states: Image to video, Private generation
Picsart AI Image Generator
Picsart AI Image Generator creates images from text prompts, styles, and reference images, then lets users edit or export them in Picsart.
Plans
Pro
- $10.5/mo billed yearly
- $15/mo billed monthly
- Access to all photo & video editing features
- Advanced background & object removal
- Unlimited image generations with Flex.2 Klein
- Thousands of premium templates
- 100 GB of cloud storage
- 15+ creative AI agents
Ultra
- $60/mo billed yearly, per seat
- $75/mo billed monthly, per seat
- 140+ leading AI video, image, and audio models
- Early access to advanced AI features
- Option to buy add-on credits that never expire
- Create ad variations & localize
- Add team seats
- 300 GB of cloud storage per seat
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to image — “Type a text prompt, pick from 100 presets, or upload a reference image to guide your generation.” source
- Edits images — “Swap backgrounds with AI Background , replace specific elements using AI Replace , sharpen details with AI Image Enhancer , or make full adjustments in the AI Photo Editor.” source
- Upscales — “Unpixelate Image” source
- Style or character reference — “Guide your generation with an existing visual for consistent style and direction.” source
- Text in images — “Want readable text placed directly inside an image? Ideogram V3 is built for it.” source
- Commercial use — “Many AI generated images can be used for personal projects, social media, and commercial purposes.” source
- API — “Prepaid or pay-as-you-go creative APIs” source
- Mobile app — “Access projects on mobile app and on web platform” source
Latest updates
- Draft mode for Seedance 2.5: preview in 480p, deliver in 1080p (Seedance 2.5)
Draft mode for Seedance 2.5 adds 480p previews before rendering a selected take in 1080p.
- Creatify Boreal: AI video with sound, cut to the second
Creatify Boreal is available in Picsart AI Playground for text-to-video with sound, durations from 1 to 20 seconds, and resolutions up to 2K.
- Picsart is now a connected app in Google Gemini
Picsart is now a connected app in Google Gemini, bringing 190+ AI models and creative tools into Gemini chats.
Recraft
Recraft generates and edits images, vectors, mockups, illustrations, icons, and video for design and marketing work.
Plans
Free
Free
- Limited credits for trying core functionality
- Image and vector generation tools
- Basic editing features
- Upload up to 3 images per day
- Up to 2 images per prompt
- Generated images are public
Basic
- $12 per month (billed monthly) for 1,000 credits
- $10 per month (billed annually, $120 per year) for 1,000 credits
- 1,000 credits per month
- Private image generation
- Commercial usage rights
- Top-up credits available
Pro
- 2000 credits — $20 per month (monthly)
- 2000 credits — $16 per month (billed annually)
- 4,000 credits — $40 per month (monthly)
- 4,000 credits — $32 per month (billed annually)
- 8,000 credits — $80 per month (monthly)
- 8,000 credits — $64 per month (billed annually)
- 16000 credits — $160 per month (monthly)
- 16000 credits — $128 per month (billed annually)
- Monthly credit allowance (tiers from 2,000)
- Private image generation
- Commercial usage rights
- Top-up credits available
- Access to all core tools
Teams
- 2000 credits — $22 per month (monthly)
- 2000 credits — $18 per month (billed annually)
- 4,000 credits — $44 per month (monthly)
- 4,000 credits — $35 per month (billed annually)
- 8,000 credits — $70 per month (monthly)
- 8,000 credits — $88 per month (billed annually)
- 16000 credits — $176 per month (monthly)
- 16000 credits — $141 per month (billed annually)
- Shared custom styles
- Centralized account management
- Premium 24/7 support
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Top-up credits shared across seats
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Capabilities
- Text to image — “Recraft is an AI tool for professional designers, illustrators, and marketers. It lets creators easily generate and iterate original images, vector art, illustrations, icons, and 3D graphics with AI.” source
- Edits images — “The creator’s platform for generating and editing images, vectors, and mockups with Recraft’s models and other top frontier models” source
- Upscales — “Image upscaler” source
- Style or character reference — “Recraft instantly turns them into a reusable, editable style.” source
- Image to video — “Feed it text, up to five reference photos, audio, or existing video footage and it generates new video from any combination of those inputs.” source
- Text in images — “Among Recraft's core strengths is its exceptional image generation quality, including generation images with text of any size and length.” source
- Commercial use — “Paid plans grant you full ownership and commercial rights for all images generated while subscribed.” source
- Private generation — “Images remain private and are not shown in the community gallery.” source
- API — “Yes. The Recraft API provides programmatic access to image and vector generation, editing, background removal, inpainting, outpainting, batch jobs, and asynchronous processing.” source
- Mobile app — “Android App iOS App” source
Latest updates
- V4.1 Flash: The Fastest Model on the Market
Generates images in 1.3 seconds end to end and adds a Refine button.
- New Model: ChatGPT Images 2.5
Available in Recraft Studio for image generation and editing, with 50% lower latency than its predecessor.
- V4 Styles
Choose a style from the library or a reference; generated images hold true to it, with no training needed.