Inpainty vs Krea 2

Inpainty 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.

Inpainty

Upload a PNG, JPG, or WebP screenshot and the AI marks every detected text block as a clickable target. Tap a block, retype the text, download. The tool regenerates the image attempting to match the original font family, weight, size, and color. No account, no installation, no Photoshop license. The ceiling appears fast: single-block edits on clean screenshots work well, but complex backgrounds, decorative fonts, or tightly kerned text will produce mismatches the tool cannot recover from. When that happens, teams open Figma or Photoshop anyway.

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	Inpainty	Krea 2
Pricing	Free	Paid
Price	—	$9/mo
Free trial	No	No
Open source	Yes	No
Has API	No	Yes
Self-hosted option	No	No
Platforms	Web (browser), iOS, Android	Web-based; Android mobile app with limited canvas editing
Released	—	2022-03
Pros	No signup and no installation required, so a teammate who needs a one-time fix can be done before the time it takes to provision a Figma seat. AI detects every text block independently and makes each one clickable, which means you do not have to mask or locate text regions manually the way you would in an image editor. Format preservation per block — font family, weight, size, and color — so localized screenshots stay visually consistent with the source without manual style matching. Mobile-first editing with native share sheet support on iOS and Android, so the fix-and-share loop does not require a desktop if the screenshot originated on a phone. Text replacement doubles as content removal — typing nothing or replacement copy into a block hides names, prices, or emails, so sensitive screenshots can be shared without a separate redaction tool.	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	On decorative fonts, non-Latin scripts with complex rendering, or screenshots with photographic backgrounds, the regenerated text visibly mismatches the original — the vendor acknowledges this with 'tries to match' language, and there is no manual override for font or color. Teams with brand-critical assets open a design tool at that point. There is no batch mode, no API, and no self-hosting path, so any team that needs to process more than a handful of screenshots — automated localization pipelines, QA screenshot diffing, documentation generation at scale — hits the tool's ceiling immediately and switches to a scripted solution or a design platform with programmatic export.	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

Inpainty is free while Krea 2 is paid; Inpainty is open source; only Krea 2 exposes a public API; Inpainty runs on Web (browser), iOS, Android; Krea 2 on Web-based; Android mobile app with limited canvas editing. Pick the difference that actually blocks you.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Inpainty and Krea 2?

Inpainty is Free and open source, while Krea 2 is Paid. Compare pricing, free trial, API, platforms, and pros/cons in the table above on AIDiveForge.

Is Inpainty 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.