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Recraft

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Velocity6.3

Recraft rents the models and owns the Design Kit — that split is the whole strategy.

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◆Current state
Recraft Studio adds third-party generation models on a steady cadence, each announced to the same template: model name, plan, credit price. Seedream 5.0 Pro, Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash all landed that way, and Seedance 2.5 is the newest. Around that catalogue Recraft is building the parts a model host cannot supply — the Design Agent, which produces a coordinated set of brand assets saved as a reusable Design Kit, and in-canvas vector editing that closes the round trip to an external editor. Simplified Chinese joined the interface languages in July.
◆Where it's heading
Two speeds. The model catalogue turns over quickly and is largely undifferentiated, since the same third-party engines are available to anyone willing to pay for them. The proprietary layer moves more slowly and is where the direction is: a persistent Design Kit changes the unit of work from one asset to a house style, and vector editing makes generated output a starting point rather than a final answer. Video is now on the same footing as image in the catalogue — 30-second clips at 480p or 720p, priced per generation rather than per second, which is a shift from how earlier video models were metered.
◆Prediction
The obvious next step is pulling video into the Design Agent, so a Design Kit covers motion as well as logo, palette and type. Nothing in these entries indicates it yet, and the credit pricing suggests video is still being treated as a separately metered catalogue item.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    New Model: Seedance 2.5

    Seedance 2.5 joins Studio for video generation at 18 credits for 480p and 41 for 720p. It follows the catalogue template exactly, but two details break from it: clips run up to 30 seconds, which is scene length rather than loop length, and the price is per generation instead of the per-second metering earlier video models used.

  2. 21d ago

    Recraft Design Agent

    A second feed emission of the same July 29 Design Agent announcement, differing only in wording from the entry alongside it. The release is covered there; this row carries no additional detail.

  3. 21d ago

    Recraft Design Agent is now open for testing

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    The clearest move yet up from generation into design. Where the rest of the window adds models that make one asset at a time, this produces a coordinated set and keeps it as a reusable object — the Design Kit is the part a rented model catalog cannot supply.

  4. 27d ago

    Edit vectors directly in Recraft Studio

    Vectors become editable in place: double-click a shape to move anchor points, adjust curves, recolor individual shapes, duplicate elements across frames, and refine paths on canvas. It closes the round trip to an external editor, which is what a generation tool needs before designers will treat its output as a starting point rather than a final answer.

  5. 1mo ago

    New image model: Seedream 5.0 Pro

    Another third-party image model added to the Pro catalog at 22 credits per generation. These entries follow a fixed template — model name, plan, credit price — and are best read as inventory maintenance rather than a change of direction.

  6. 1mo ago

    Recraft Studio is now available in Simplified Chinese

    Simplified Chinese joins the Studio's language options, switchable from profile settings, with more languages described as in progress. It changes reach rather than capability, but it is the first localization signal in this window.