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Recraft announced on May 30, 2026 that its Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro variant entered the Artificial Analysis Image Arena as the third-ranked lab worldwide and the highest-ranked text-to-image model from any lab outside Google and OpenAI. On the leaderboard it sits behind GPT Image 2 and GPT Image 1.5 from OpenAI and Nan The press release describes the V4.1 family as covering three modes: V4.1, the main expressive model for exploration and creative direction; V4.1 Utility, which holds the same aesthetic bar but produces more predictable, production-ready output for mockups, product shots, and brief-driven work; and V4.1 Vector, which R