Krea 2
Summary
The real cost of multi-model creative production isn't the subscriptions — it's the context-switching: separate tabs for image gen, video, 3D, and fine-tuning, each with its own prompt syntax and export ritual. Krea consolidates that surface into one canvas.
Krea is a browser-based creative platform where designers iterate on images, video, and 3D outputs using a shared workspace — adjusting prompts, painting edits, and chaining steps through a visual node system rather than bouncing between tools. Real-time generation means the canvas updates as you drag sliders, which collapses the feedback loop that kills ideation sessions. LoRA fine-tuning lets teams lock in a visual style and reuse it across campaigns, so brand drift doesn't creep in between projects. The API opens batch workflows for developers embedding generation into their own pipelines. The ceiling appears at high-volume production: the free tier runs on daily compute units that exhaust quickly, and teams doing sustained bulk generation hit rate constraints that require queueing work or upgrading.
Bottom line: Krea earns its place in a design team's daily workflow when the job is rapid, style-consistent visual iteration — but teams running unattended overnight batch jobs at scale will hit compute ceilings and need to architect around the API's rate limits or move volume to a dedicated inference provider.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 2 months ago- Price
- $9/mo
- Free Tier
- 100 compute units per day, no credit card required, limited access to image/video/3D/lipsync models, limited access to image upscaling, limited LoRA training
Free
Get free daily credits to try basic features.
- 100 compute units per day
- No credit card required
- Generate images in real-time
- Limited access to image, video, 3D, and lipsync models
- Limited access to image upscaling
- Limited LoRA training
Basic
Access our most popular features for daily generations.
- 5,000 compute units per month
- Access to Krea 2
- Commercial license
- Full access to Image, 3D, and Lipsync models
- LoRA fine-tuning with up to 50 images
- Upscale & enhance to 4K
- Access to selected video models
Pro
Most popular. Full access to the world's best models & all our industry-leading tools.
- 20,000 compute units per month
- Everything in Basic plus
- Access to Krea 2
- Access to all video models
- Workflow automation with Nodes and Apps
- AI-powered Nodes Agent
- Bulk discounts on compute unit packs
- Upscale & enhance to 8K
Max
Maximum power for serious creators with unlimited concurrency, relaxed generations, and premium upscaling.
- 60,000 compute units
- Everything in Pro plus
- Access to Krea 2 with unlimited image generation
- Unlimited LoRA fine-tunings with 2,000 files
- Unlimited Concurrency
- Unlimited relaxed generations
- Upscale & enhance to 22K
Business
Secure and collaborative workspace for growing teams.
- 80,000 compute units
- Everything in Max plus
- Access to Krea 2 with unlimited image generation
- Business Terms of Service
- Up to 50 seats included
- Share private Node Apps with your team
- Train LoRAs with up to 20,000 images
- Unlimited relaxed generations
- Custom user roles and permissions
- Fine-grained controls for model access
Enterprise
Enterprise-grade security with dedicated support, access to Krea's educational services and admin features for scale.
- Custom pricing
- Everything in Business plus
- Access to Krea 2 with unlimited image generation
- Custom Terms of Service
- Priority support with SLA
- Analytics API
- Per-member spend limits
- Slack connect
- Custom compute packages
- Unlimited relaxed generations
- Audit logs
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Real-time canvas rendering updates as you adjust prompts and parameters, so design reviews don't stall waiting for batch results — a feedback loop that makes live client sessions viable.
- LoRA fine-tuning on your own visual assets is built into the platform, which means brand-consistent output without re-prompting style descriptions on every generation or accepting drift across a campaign.
- Image, video, and 3D generation share one workspace, so creative teams stop maintaining separate subscriptions and losing context on every tool switch.
- Node-based pipeline chaining lets teams build repeatable multi-step workflows without custom code, which means a repeatable production process doesn't require an engineer to maintain it.
- API access exposes generation programmatically, so developers can embed Krea's output into their own applications or trigger batch jobs from external systems without manual canvas interaction.
Cons
Sign in to edit- The free tier runs on a daily compute unit ceiling that depletes quickly during an active session — a design team running a full-day ideation sprint exhausts the allowance before lunch and either pauses work or upgrades mid-project.
- There is no self-hosted deployment path; all generation runs on Krea's cloud infrastructure. Teams operating under data-residency or IP-confidentiality requirements cannot use Krea for client work that prohibits third-party cloud processing — and that constraint alone moves them to a self-hostable alternative.
- High-volume unattended batch generation via API hits rate limits that require queueing or off-peak scheduling. Teams needing thousands of outputs per day without human pacing in the loop typically migrate bulk inference to a dedicated provider and reduce Krea to the interactive prototyping phase only.
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About
- Platforms
- Web-based; Android mobile app with limited canvas editing
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-01T11:15:58.706Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Graphic designers and creative directors seeking instant visual feedback
- Architects and interior designers creating client presentation renderings
- Product teams and agencies needing multi-modal content at scale
- Developers building AI-powered creative applications via API
- Video producers and content creators managing multiple model workflows
What it does well
- Real-time ideation and visual iteration for designers and creative directors
- Rapid prototyping of product visuals and architectural renderings
- Batch generation and automated workflows via API or Nodes
- Brand-consistent content production using fine-tuned LoRA models
- Multi-model video, image, and 3D creation without managing separate subscriptions
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Krea 2 free?
- Krea 2 has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades (paid plans from $9/mo). You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Krea 2 open source?
- No — Krea 2 is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does Krea 2 have an API?
- Yes. Krea 2 exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://krea.ai for details.
- When was Krea 2 released?
- Krea 2 was first released in 2022.
- What platforms does Krea 2 support?
- Krea 2 is available on: Web-based; Android mobile app with limited canvas editing.
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Krea is a multi-modal AI creative platform built for real-time visual iteration. The core workflow places image, video, and 3D generation inside a single canvas: you write or refine a prompt, paint over a reference, adjust generation parameters, and see results update in near-real-time. Node-based chaining lets you connect generation steps into repeatable pipelines — the user orchestrates the sequence; the platform executes each step. Founded in March 2022 by Victor Perez and Diego Rodriguez, Krea operates as a cloud-only, closed-source service.
The standout differentiator is real-time rendering feedback. Rather than submitting a prompt and waiting for a batch result, Krea surfaces image updates as you edit — which means a creative director can sit with a client and explore visual directions live, without the dead air that kills in-room ideation. LoRA fine-tuning extends this: teams train a model on their own visual assets and apply that style across every subsequent generation, so a brand’s illustration language doesn’t erode between sprints.
Krea fits best when the work is exploratory and the team needs speed — rapid prototyping for architectural renderings, product mockups, or campaign visual development. It breaks down when the requirement is unattended, high-throughput generation: compute units on the free tier deplete fast, and sustained API usage at volume runs into rate constraints. Teams hitting that wall either schedule work in batches across the day or route high-volume inference to a dedicated provider and use Krea only for the interactive design phase. There is no self-hosted option, so teams with data-residency requirements cannot run Krea on their own infrastructure.