Recraft launches V4 Styles for consistent image sets
Recraft has released V4 Styles, a feature that applies one reference image's style across many generations without training, aimed at designers who need a matching look from image to image.
Recraft announced V4 Styles, a style-reference feature for its V4 image models. The company says it treats a reference "as a blueprint for many images, not a one-off," so the style holds across a whole series instead of drifting after the first few outputs.
Users can start from any single reference, such as a brand book, an illustration, a photoshoot or a saved screenshot, and generate right away with no training step. Up to 10 more references can be added. Recraft says similar images tighten the match and varied ones widen the range of outputs. Two modes are offered: Precise keeps rendering technique, color, composition and lighting, while Flexible gives the model more room when the overall mood matters more than exact detail.
Recraft says that in third-party blind comparison testing run on August 14, 2026, evaluators preferred V4 Styles matches over those from seven other leading models 92% of the time. The post does not name the testing firm or the competing models, and it gives no sample size or method. It does include side-by-side examples against Google's Nano Banana and Midjourney. In those examples, Recraft says Nano Banana's outputs drifted from the reference style over a series and Midjourney missed either the color palette or the texture.
The company says its models are calibrated against the judgment of working designers rather than benchmark scores alone. V4 Styles is available now on Recraft's V4 live demo page. The post does not mention pricing or API availability.