MCP Recraft Server MCP Server

Mcp recraft server mcp server connects MCP Recraft Server to AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. MCP Server implementation for recraft.ai API.

What MCP Recraft Server does

This is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integrating MCP clients with Recraft's raster- and vector-image operations:

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call these 12 tools directly:

• style — size
• model — number of images | $0.04/$0.08 per raster/vector image |
• prompt — similarity strength
• generate_image — Generates raster/vector images from prompt
• create_style — Creates a style from the list of images
• vectorize_image — Vectorizes raster image
• image_to_image — Generates raster/vector images from image and prompt
• remove_background — Removes background in image
• replace_background — Generates new background in image from prompt
• crisp_upscale — Crisp upscale of image
• creative_upscale — Creative upscale of image
• get_user — Get information about the user and left balance

Installing the mcp recraft server mcp server

The server is distributed via npm as npm, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.

Configuration

Before the server will start you need to supply 4 environment variables: RECRAFT_API_KEY, IMAGE_STORAGE_DIRECTORY, RECRAFT_REMOTE_RESULTS_STORAGE, YOUR_RECRAFT_API_KEY. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

Requirements

• First of all, you will need a Recraft API key. To obtain it, register your account on Recraft; then go to your profile API page. Here you can buy API units (credits) and generate an API key. - You will need to have an MCP client installed, for example Claude Desktop.

Where it fits

Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. MCP Recraft Server sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — style, model, prompt among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

• This is a hosted server — you point your client at an endpoint rather than running a local process, so there is nothing to keep updated on your machine.
• It will not start until its required credentials are present, so set those before wondering why the tools never appear.
• With 12 tools exposed, expect a noticeable bump in prompt size — disable it in projects that never use MCP Recraft Server.
• Maintained by recraft-ai, written in Go.
• MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the mcp recraft server mcp server actually does with your data.
• Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.