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.

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.

Sources

https://www.recraft.ai/docs/api-reference/getting-started
https://www.recraft.ai/docs/api-reference/pricing