Recraft · Rate Limits

Recraft Rate Limits

Recraft API access requires a positive API Unit balance; throughput is gated primarily by available units rather than published HTTP RPS. Specific rate limits are not publicly listed; standard 429 backoff applies.

Recraft Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Recraft on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring api_units and requests.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include AI, Image Generation, Design, Vector, and Style.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

API Unit Balance account
api_units
prepaid
Account requires positive API Unit balance to call the API.
HTTP Requests account
requests
not publicly documented

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
Unit Top-Up
Pre-purchase API Units in advance of high-volume jobs to avoid balance-based throttling.

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