AI Design Comparison

FLORA vs. Recraft

At a glance

FLORA

Best for

Best for creative teams that want many AI models and repeatable workflows on one shared canvas.

Freelancers
Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Recraft

Best for

Best for designers who need editable vector logos, icons and illustrations.

Freelancers
Small and mid-sized

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Full Comparison

Criterion	FLORA	Recraft
Starting price	Free tier; Starter $18 / seat / month Starter, Pro and Max are shown as a launch offer applying through 30 September. Quarterly billing saves 10 percent and annual billing 20 percent. Each paid seat adds a separate monthly usage allowance on top of the seat price.	lower value Free tier; Basic $12 / month Billed annually, Basic is $10 per month ($120 per year) for 1,000 credits. Pro runs from $20 a month for 2,000 credits to $160 for 16,000, Teams from $22 a month for 2,000 credits, and annual billing takes up to 20 percent off. Top-up packs of 200, 400, 800 and 1,600 credits never expire.
Free trial	Free plan with 1 seat, 3 active projects and up to 17 generations	Free tier with limited credits, up to three uploads a day and two images per prompt
Commercial use	Not stated	Paid plans only: free-plan images are public and remain Recraft's property, while images made on a paid plan stay private and owned by you even after the subscription ends
Output	Images, video, audio and text produced on a shared canvas	Raster and editable vector images, plus video, exported as PNG, JPG, TIFF, PDF, SVG or Lottie
API	Yes, REST API and an official MCP server, from the Starter plan	Yes, a REST API across its own models, plus a hosted MCP server at mcp.recraft.ai
Hosting	Not stated	Cloud (SaaS), with iOS and Android apps alongside the browser
What it makes	Concepts and moodboards, brand identity, product visualisation, ad and campaign creative, social content, and video and storyboards	Logos, icons, illustrations, mockups, seamless patterns and photographs, as raster images or editable vectors, plus video generation in Recraft Studio
AI generation	170+ text, image, video and audio models on one canvas, combined as nodes and saved as reusable techniques	Its own V2, V3, V4 and V4.1 model families plus V4 Styles, twenty models in raster and vector versions with Pro variants at four megapixels; Studio also runs third-party models from OpenAI, Google, Black Forest Labs, ByteDance, Alibaba, Ideogram and others, which the API does not cover
Brand, style and templates	A technique library for repeatable looks, plus shared team assets and shared elements from the Pro plan	Custom styles built from one reference image or up to ten with no training, held across later generations in a precise or a flexible match mode, shareable and shared team-wide on the Teams plan, plus curated styles, colour palettes and a template library
Export and handoff	Export node writes PNG, JPG, WEBP and SVG, MP4, MOV and GIF, and MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, OGG and FLAC	PNG, JPG, TIFF, PDF, SVG and Lottie, with vectors exported as SVG or PDF; plugins for Figma, Framer, Google Docs and Google Slides, a Chrome extension and iOS and Android apps keep the assets where the work happens
MCP-ready	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Not stated	Email helpdesk, Chat, Community forum
Onboarding	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base
Company size	more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise	Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
Integrations	Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor	more entries Figma, Framer, Google Docs, Google Slides, Chrome, Claude, Claude Code

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price FLORA Free tier; Starter $18 / seat / month Recraft Free tier; Basic $12 / month
Free trial FLORA Free plan with 1 seat, 3 active projects and up to 17 generations Recraft Free tier with limited credits, up to three uploads a day and two images per prompt
Company size FLORA Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Recraft Freelancers, Small and mid-sized
Output FLORA Images, video, audio and text produced on a shared canvas Recraft Raster and editable vector images, plus video, exported as PNG, JPG, TIFF, PDF, SVG or Lottie
API FLORA Yes, REST API and an official MCP server, from the Starter plan Recraft Yes, a REST API across its own models, plus a hosted MCP server at mcp.recraft.ai

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

FLORA

Strengths

170+ text, image, video and audio models in one canvas, with real-time team collaboration
Techniques turn one approach into hundreds of consistent assets
Official MCP server lets external AI agents drive FLORA workflows
Free plan covers a solo seat and three projects

Limitations

API and MCP access start at the Starter plan and are not on the free plan
Each seat carries a separate usage allowance, so the bill follows generation volume rather than headcount
The enterprise page lists SOC 2 Type 1 today, with Type 2 and GDPR compliance stated as coming in Q3 2026
The Starter, Pro and Max prices are a launch offer with a stated end date

Recraft

Strengths

Generates editable vector and SVG output rather than only pixels
Custom styles from up to ten reference images, with no training step
Exports PNG, JPG, TIFF, PDF, SVG and Lottie
Plugins for Figma, Framer, Google Docs and Google Slides, plus iOS and Android apps
REST API and a hosted MCP server that share the subscription credits

Limitations

Free-plan images are public and remain Recraft's property, so commercial work starts on a paid plan
Credit-based plans rather than flat seats, so heavy months cost more
Third-party models run in Studio only and are not available through the API
Narrower than a full design suite and less suited to photo retouching

Plans

Pricing

FLORA

Free $0 Per month. 1 seat, 3 active projects, text and image models, full canvas and layer editor, up to 17 generations.
Starter $18 Per seat / month, launch offer. Adds $12 usage per seat per month, text, image and video models, unlimited projects, API and MCP access.
Pro $50 Per seat / month, launch offer. Adds $50 included usage per seat per month, shared team assets and elements, per-member usage caps, usage analytics.
Max $200 Per seat / month, launch offer. Adds $100 included usage per seat per month and custom voices (3 per organisation).
Enterprise Custom For teams of 9 or more. SSO and SAML, dedicated support, bespoke onboarding and training.

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Recraft

Free $0 Limited credits, up to three uploads a day and two images per prompt. Generated images are public in the community gallery, remain Recraft's property and are not licensed for commercial use. No credit top-ups.
Basic $12 Per month for 1,000 credits, or $10 per month billed annually ($120 per year). Private generation and commercial rights while subscribed.
Pro From $20 Per month for 2,000 credits, rising to $40 for 4,000, $80 for 8,000 and $160 for 16,000. Billed annually the same tiers are $16, $32, $64 and $128.
Teams From $22 Per month for 2,000 credits, $44 for 4,000 and $176 for 16,000, with annual billing at $18, $35 and $141. Adds shared custom styles, centralized account management, single sign-on and premium 24/7 support.
Credit top-ups Not stated Packs of 200, 400, 800 and 1,600 credits on paid plans. They never expire and are used after the monthly allowance.

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What users say

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Where this comes from

FLORA https://www.flora.ai · no check date recorded yet

Recraft https://www.recraft.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-18

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