Recraft 4.1 Text to Image: lock this still before you buy motion (4cr)

Recraft 4.1 Text to Image is the stills row. Animate after approval. Do not generate the pack inside the video model.

Recraft, 4 credits, text-to-image. Description: "Recraft V4.1 standard text-to-image. High-quality image generation from prompts with strong style control and consistency." requires_image is false. No listed max resolution. No listed qualities. Aspects: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. audio does not apply. Recraft's roster on Versely is stills (and vector siblings), not a video family. That is the point of this page: lock the look here, at 4 credits, then buy motion on a video row that can see the file.

Style control is the stills job

V4.1's listed job is high-quality generation with strong style control and consistency. That is pack language. A series of stills that share a look is cheaper to approve than a series of video takes that each reinvent the look while they move. Generate the set on this SKU. Kill the drift. Then animate the keepers.

Aspects cover square, wide, vertical, and 4:3 / 3:4. Set the shipping ratio here. 4 credits is a flat call on the matrix — not per second, because there are no seconds. Comparing 4 credits to a video row's per-second figure is how people talk themselves into "just generating the ad as video." They then have no still a designer can mark up.

Text to image is the door. Recraft's roster is V4.1, V4, V3. Recraft V4 is the previous generation, not this SKU. Best AI image generator is the ranked stills shelf.

Consistency first, motion second

Recraft is the wrong place to "see if it moves." It does not move. It is the right place to see if the style holds across five prompts that should be the same campaign. If member three of the pack already looks like a different brand, animating members one and two will not fix member three. Re-roll here. 4 credits.

Because requires_image is false, this is a generate. If you already have a locked Recraft still and need a delta, an edit model is the honest next step. Re-rolling 4.1 and calling it the same asset is a new identity with similar vibes.

Do not write camera moves into the prompt and then blame Recraft for being a stills row. Style, subject, lighting, medium. Then image-to-video on a model that lists durations.

What you are not buying

You are not buying 4K — this record does not list a max resolution the way Wan 2.6 and Qwen Image do. You are not buying 2K as a quality enum the way ImagineArt does. You are buying Recraft's style-control stills at 4 credits with those five aspects. If the brief is "4K photoreal, we will argue about type later," you may be on the wrong stills row. If the brief is "this campaign has to look like one campaign," you are in the right place.

Animate after a human has said yes. The video model is not Recraft with a timeline.

FAQ

Is Recraft 4.1 a video model?

No. Image content type, text-to-image, 4 credits, no durations. Lock the still. Then animate.

Which ratios can I set?

1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4. Pick the one you will ship. Do not leave it square "for now" if the ad is vertical. The video row should not be where you discover the crop.

Why 4 credits instead of a 2-credit stills row?

That is this SKU's catalog figure. You are paying for Recraft V4.1's listed style control and consistency, not for a generic 2-credit sample. If you do not need that control, pick a cheaper stills row. If you do, do not skip it to "save" money on a video generate that will restyle the pack.

Can I generate the whole pack as video and pull frames?

You can. You will then be reviewing motion for a look you never locked. Recraft 4.1 exists so the look is a stills conversation at 4 credits. Use it that way.