Recraft releases V4.1 Flash, a separate fast image model in Studio and the API

Archive entry: this covers an event from September 23, 2026, and we published it on November 8, 2026. The details come from sources dated at the time and may have changed since.

On September 23, 2026, Recraft released V4.1 Flash, which it described as a separate model, not a mode. The company announced it in a blog post by founder and CEO Anna Veronika Dorogush.

What Recraft reported

• Recraft said Flash was the fastest model on the market, at a median of 1.3 seconds from prompt to image on a larger prompt set.
• In Recraft's own 100-prompt benchmark, run on September 21, 2026, Flash had a p50 of 1.4 s and a p95 of 1.8 s, while FLUX.2 klein 9B had a p50 of 1.4 s and a p95 of 2.1 s.
• Flash was live in Recraft Studio and available through the API.
• Recraft said Flash came at a fraction of the cost of V4.1.
• Enhance regenerates a chosen image with Recraft V4.1 Pro at 2048x2048.

What it means for people building with AI

Apps that need near-instant image generation got a cheaper Recraft option, with Enhance offering an upgrade path to V4.1 Pro for final assets. The 1.3 second median and the 100-prompt benchmark are Recraft's own measurements, and Flash and FLUX.2 klein 9B had the same p50 of 1.4 s in that run, so the difference there was in the p95 tail. Because Recraft listed no prices, the size of the saving over V4.1 was not quantified.

Sources

• Meet Recraft V4.1 Flash: The Fastest Image Model on the Market (Recraft, September 23, 2026, official)

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