Fence Preview vs Krea 2

Fence Preview and Krea 2 are both image generation tracked by AIDiveForge. Below is a side-by-side comparison of pricing, capabilities, platforms, and ownership — sourced from each tool's live website and verified before publishing.

Fence Preview

The workflow is three steps: upload a yard photo, trace the fence line corner by corner, pick material and height, and a photorealistic before/after render comes back in roughly 30 seconds. The vendor states you can upload a photo of the exact fence product you install, so the preview matches what gets built — not a generic stock image. Eight material categories cover wood privacy, vinyl, chain-link, aluminum, composite, and ornamental styles. The model has no API, no self-hosted option, and no subscription tier — you buy credits, and the vendor states they never expire. Where it breaks: there is no way to automate this into a quoting or CRM workflow, so every preview is a manual one-off.

Krea 2

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.

Attribute	Fence Preview	Krea 2
Pricing	Paid	Paid
Price	—	$9/mo
Free trial	No	No
Open source	No	No
Has API	No	Yes
Self-hosted option	No	No
Platforms	Web	Web-based; Android mobile app with limited canvas editing
Released	—	2022-03
Pros	Custom product photo upload lets the AI replicate the exact fence you install, so the preview matches the quote rather than a stock approximation — which means customers aren't surprised at install. Corner-by-corner fence line tracing on the yard photo lets you mark separate sections and fine-tune placement, so the render reflects the actual property layout instead of a generic backyard. Before/after slider output downloads and sends over text in seconds, so you can hand the customer a visual comparison before leaving the property — removing the 'let me think about it' delay that kills first-visit closes. Eight material categories rendered side by side mean you can show cedar versus composite versus vinyl in the same yard photo, so the upsell conversation happens visually rather than verbally. Credits never expire and there is no subscription, so low-volume contractors aren't paying a monthly fee for a tool they use a few times per week.	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	There is no API and no integration with quoting or CRM platforms — every preview is generated manually inside the browser, which means a sales team running 30 quotes a day is clicking through the same three steps 30 times with no way to automate or batch the work. The tool is scoped entirely to fence visualization with eight material categories; contractors who quote decks, pergolas, or gates as part of the same job have no equivalent tool here and need a separate solution for those line items. Teams that need to produce previews at volume or embed outputs into automated proposal workflows will hit the manual ceiling quickly — at that scale the lack of an API becomes the reason a team moves to a custom Midjourney or Stable Diffusion pipeline wired into their quoting system, even if the output quality requires more setup.	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.

Bottom line

Only Krea 2 exposes a public API. Choose based on which difference matters most for your workflow.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Fence Preview and Krea 2?

Fence Preview is Paid, while Krea 2 is Paid. Compare pricing, free trial, API, platforms, and pros/cons in the table above on AIDiveForge.

Is Fence Preview better than Krea 2?

It depends on your workflow. Use the side-by-side attributes (pricing, open source, API, self-hosted, platforms) to decide. AIDiveForge does not rank a universal winner — we publish verified facts so you can choose.