• 1 min read 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 produces images with clean lighting and varied composition. • For illustration, the model can generate original characters with less predictable color palettes. • There are 2 versions: V4: Faster and more cost-efficient, suited for everyday work and iteration V4 Pro: Generates higher-resolution images for print-ready assets and large-scale use To use this model, set model to recraft/recraft-v4-pro or recraft/recraft-v4 in the AI SDK: import { generateImage } from ‘ai’; const result = await generateImage({ model: ‘recraft/recraft-v4’, prompt: Product photo of a ceramic coffee mug on a wooden table, morning light, shallow depth of field.,}); AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime.

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  • Recraft has released its fourth-generation text‑to‑image model, V4, on the AI Gateway platform. Designed with professional designers in mind, V4 improves photorealism, realistic skin tones, natural textures, and reduces synthetic artifacts, while offering cleaner lighting and varied composition. The release includes two variants: V4, a faster, cost‑efficient option for everyday use, and V4 Pro, which delivers higher‑resolution images suitable for print‑ready and large‑scale projects. Users can invoke the models via the AI SDK by specifying recraft/recraft-v4 or recraft/recraft-v4-pro. AI Gateway provides a unified API, usage tracking, cost monitoring, and built‑in observability, enabling reliable, provider‑agnostic access to the new models.

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