Canva Craft

Canva Craft is Canva's first in-house image generation model, built by Canva Research for design work: it plans an image's layout and text before rendering it at up to 2K in more than 30 aspect ratios, and is available in Canva's Dream Lab and through Canva's public API.

Why it matters

For small businesses making their own posters, social posts, flyers and ads, it produces images with readable text and editable elements inside the design tool they already use.

Highlights

• A two-stage design: a planning model writes out the composition, spacing and any text, then a rendering model draws it, which Canva says gives more accurate layouts and legible text.
• Generates up to 2K resolution in more than 30 preset aspect ratios or a custom size, and can write text in 55 languages from prompts in any language.
• Canva reports it debuted fourth overall on DesignArena and first in the People & Portraits and Landscapes & Nature categories.
• Available to all Canva users in Dream Lab and to developers through the public API; Canva MCP access is listed as coming soon.
• Canva says faster and cheaper variants, Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast, are on the way.

Taken from the project's own README, docs or launch page. Claims about speed or accuracy are the maker's unless stated otherwise.

Worth knowing: Benchmark rankings are Canva's own reporting of DesignArena results.

Quick facts

Links

• Official site: https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-craft/
• Docs: https://www.canva.dev/docs/connect/

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Checked 2026-10-24 from the model's own pages. Prices and star counts change, so confirm on the official site. Listing here is not a ranking or an endorsement.