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Recraft V3 APIRecraft's model, through Leap

Design-grade images in 85 styles, and true vectors as SVG. One Leap key and one balance run it and every other model, priced per call in dollars.

Get an API keyRead the quickstart

First $5 top-up, no card fee.

  • One key for every model
  • Every call quoted first
  • A failed call costs nothing
curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations \  -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY" \  -H "content-type: application/json" \  -H "prefer: wait=60" \  -d '{    "model": "recraft/recraft-v3",    "input": {      "prompt": "A silk scarf in the wind on a ferry deck",      "aspect_ratio": "1:1",      "settings": {        "style": "realistic_image"      }    }  }' # Video often outlasts the wait and answers "queued" or "running".# Put its "id" in GENERATION_ID and read it again until it is done:# curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations/$GENERATION_ID -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY"

Set LEAP_API_KEY and send it. With prefer: wait=60 the answer holds the result when the call finishes within a minute; a longer one is read again by its ID.

Model ID
recraft/recraft-v3
Price per call
$0.054
This call
An image costs $0.054.
First top-up
A first top-up of $5, with no fee, covers 92 calls like it.

What it makes

Made with Recraft V3

Real Recraft V3 runs on Leap. Each one passed Leap's media quality check before it was shown.

More on the Recraft V3 page
  • A swimmer in a geometric pool, from above, a real run on Leap

    A swimmer in a geometric pool, from above

The answer

What comes back

A generation. Check status first: succeeded has the file in output, a signed link that works for 24 hours, so download what you keep. failed has error and failure_cause, and costs nothing. usage.cost_usd is what the call was charged.

200 OK, trimmed
{  "id": "gen_...",  "object": "generation",  "model": "recraft/recraft-v3",  "status": "succeeded",  "output": [    {      "type": "image",      "url": "https://api.tryleap.ai/files/..."    }  ],  "error": null,  "usage": {    "cost_usd": "0.054"  }}

Inputs

What Recraft V3 takes

Only prompt is needed; everything else has a default. The same schema is public, with no key, at api.tryleap.ai/v1/public/models/recraft/recraft-v3.

Promptprompt
Text, up to 1,000 characters, required
Aspect ratioaspect_ratio
1:1, 3:4, 9:16, 4:3, 16:9. Default: 1:1
Stylesettings.style
Any, Realistic image, Digital illustration, Vector illustration, Realistic image/b and w, Realistic image/hard flash, Realistic image/hdr, Realistic image/natural light, Realistic image/studio portrait, Realistic image/enterprise, Realistic image/motion blur, Realistic image/evening light, Realistic image/faded nostalgia, Realistic image/forest life, Realistic image/mystic naturalism, Realistic image/natural tones, Realistic image/organic calm, Realistic image/real life glow, Realistic image/retro realism, Realistic image/retro snapshot, Realistic image/urban drama, Realistic image/village realism, Realistic image/warm folk, Digital illustration/pixel art, Digital illustration/hand drawn, Digital illustration/grain, Digital illustration/infantile sketch, Digital illustration/2d art poster, Digital illustration/handmade 3d, Digital illustration/hand drawn outline, Digital illustration/engraving color, Digital illustration/2d art poster 2, Digital illustration/antiquarian, Digital illustration/bold fantasy, Digital illustration/child book, Digital illustration/child books, Digital illustration/cover, Digital illustration/crosshatch, Digital illustration/digital engraving, Digital illustration/expressionism, Digital illustration/freehand details, Digital illustration/grain 20, Digital illustration/graphic intensity, Digital illustration/hard comics, Digital illustration/long shadow, Digital illustration/modern folk, Digital illustration/multicolor, Digital illustration/neon calm, Digital illustration/noir, Digital illustration/nostalgic pastel, Digital illustration/outline details, Digital illustration/pastel gradient, Digital illustration/pastel sketch, Digital illustration/pop art, Digital illustration/pop renaissance, Digital illustration/street art, Digital illustration/tablet sketch, Digital illustration/urban glow, Digital illustration/urban sketching, Digital illustration/vanilla dreams, Digital illustration/young adult book, Digital illustration/young adult book 2, Vector illustration/bold stroke, Vector illustration/chemistry, Vector illustration/colored stencil, Vector illustration/contour pop art, Vector illustration/cosmics, Vector illustration/cutout, Vector illustration/depressive, Vector illustration/editorial, Vector illustration/emotional flat, Vector illustration/infographical, Vector illustration/marker outline, Vector illustration/mosaic, Vector illustration/naivector, Vector illustration/roundish flat, Vector illustration/segmented colors, Vector illustration/sharp contrast, Vector illustration/thin, Vector illustration/vector photo, Vector illustration/vivid shapes, Vector illustration/engraving, Vector illustration/line art, Vector illustration/line circuit, Vector illustration/linocut. Default: Realistic imageThe style of the generated images.

Pricing

Price per call

An image costs $0.054. A first top-up of $5, with no fee, covers 92 default calls. Prices are the provider's list price plus our margin (35% on most models, less on the dearest video), read from the catalog, and a quote gives the exact price of any input for free.

Recraft V3 and its family

A free quote
curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/quotes \  -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY" \  -H "content-type: application/json" \  -d '{    "model": "recraft/recraft-v3",    "input": {      "prompt": "A silk scarf in the wind on a ferry deck",      "aspect_ratio": "1:1",      "settings": {        "style": "realistic_image"      }    }  }'

How it works

How the Recraft V3 API works

Every model takes the same request, a model ID and its input, and results, prices, failures and limits work the same way for all of them.

  • Wait for it, or hear when it ends

    prefer: wait=60 holds the request until the result is ready, for up to a minute. A longer run is read again by its ID, or a signed webhook tells your server when it ends.

    prefer: wait=60 / "webhook": "https://..."

    In the docs

  • Failed calls cost nothing

    The price is held when a call starts and charged only if it succeeds. A failed or refused call comes back with its failure_cause, and the hold is released.

    "status": "failed" / "failure_cause": "provider_refused"

    In the docs

  • The price before the call

    POST /v1/quotes takes the same body as a generation and returns its exact price, with the input checked, for free. Every result carries what it was charged.

    POST https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/quotes / "cost_usd"

    In the docs

  • Rate limits

    600 requests a minute per API key and 300 per IP address. A 429 carries Retry-After with the seconds to wait.

    RateLimit-Remaining / Retry-After

    In the docs

  • Safe retries

    Send an idempotency key and a retry after a dropped connection returns the same generation instead of starting a second one.

    idempotency-key: <uuid>

    In the docs

  • Batches

    POST /v1/batches starts up to 50 calls in one request, priced and held together, so either all start or none do.

    POST https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/batches

    In the docs

MCP

Or let your agent call it.

Leap's MCP server lets Claude Code, Claude, VS Code and other MCP clients run Recraft V3, read its inputs and fetch the result, on your balance. Signing in happens in the browser, so there is no key to paste.

Connect an agentThe agent guide
Add Leap to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http leap https://app.tryleap.ai/api/mcp

Claude Code signs you in through the browser the first time it calls Leap.

Teach your coding agent the Leap API
curl -fsSL https://www.tryleap.ai/install.sh | sh

Installs the Leap skill for every coding agent it finds: which endpoint to call, how to read a model's inputs, when to wait and when to poll.

Questions

Recraft V3 API questions

How much does the Recraft V3 API cost?
An image costs $0.054. That is the provider's list price plus our margin, the same as in the studio. POST /v1/quotes prices any input for free before you run it.
Can I try the Recraft V3 API for free?
No. API keys run on paid credit, so a key's first call needs a top-up, and quotes are free. An image costs $0.054. A first top-up of $5, with no fee, covers 92 default calls.
Do I pay for calls that fail?
No. The price is held when a call starts and charged only if it succeeds. A call that fails, or that the model's safety filter refuses, comes back with status "failed" and a failure_cause, and the hold is released.
Is this Recraft's own API?
No. Leap is a separate service: it sends your call to Recraft's model and gives you what it makes, so you need no Recraft account. One Leap key runs Recraft V3 and every other model in the catalog, from one balance.
What are the rate limits?
600 requests a minute per API key and 300 a minute per IP address. A batch starts up to 50 calls in one request. A 429 says how long to wait in its Retry-After header.
Can an AI agent call it?
Yes. Leap's MCP server lets Claude Code, Claude, VS Code and other MCP clients find Recraft V3, read its inputs, run it and fetch the result on your balance. The client signs you in through the browser, so there is no key to paste.

Build with Recraft V3.

Keys run on paid credit, and the first top-up has no fee. The same key runs every model on Leap.

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