Krea

Krea is a creative studio that puts many image and video models in one place, plus tools you don't get elsewhere. Realtime lets you sketch or move shapes and watch a finished image update as you go. The Enhancer upscales and adds detail. You can train your own style or product model, chain tools together in Nodes, or hand a brief to the Krea Agent and let it pick the models.

It also makes its own models. Krea 2 (open weights since June 2026) is well regarded for realistic images, and Krea 3, launched on 15 October 2026, is an editing model that changes one thing in a picture in a few seconds and leaves the rest alone. Alongside them sit FLUX, Nano Banana, GPT Image, Kling, Wan and others, plus a plugin for Photoshop and Blender.

Pick it over Midjourney when you want control and speed more than a signature look, and over Magnific when you don't need a stock library. Compute units are spent at different rates per model, which makes costs hard to predict, and Trustpilot reviewers complain about hard-to-cancel subscriptions and slow support.

• Designers
• Creative directors
• Marketers
• Architects
• Content creators

Designers, creative teams and hands-on marketers who want fast, controllable image making with many models.

• Realtime

  Draw or drag shapes and watch the image update live as you work.

• Enhancer

  Upscale images and video and add sharp detail, useful for print and big screens.

• Krea 3 editing

  Change a background, material or lighting in seconds while products, logos and faces stay put.

• Train your own

  Train a LoRA on your style, product or character so every result matches.

• Krea Agent

  Describe the job and it plans it, picks models and makes images, video and audio for you.

• Apps, API and MCP

  Use it in Photoshop, Blender and After Effects, from a CLI, or from Claude and ChatGPT.

• Free

  Free

  Learning the tools.

  • 100 compute units a day
  • Limited models, one image at a time
  • Krea Agent included

• Basic

  $9/mo, or $5/mo billed yearly

  Light personal or freelance use.

  • 5,000 compute units a month
  • Unlimited relaxed generations
  • Commercial licence
• Our pick

  Pro

  $35/mo, or $21/mo billed yearly

  Designers and marketers generating most days.

  • 20,000 compute units a month
  • All models, including all Seedance video
  • Unlimited relaxed generations
  • Early access to new features

• Max

  $105/mo, or $63/mo billed yearly

  Heavy users and video work.

  • 60,000 compute units a month
  • Krea 3 Ultra mode
  • Train on up to 2,000 images

• Business

  $200/mo, or $160/mo billed yearly

  Creative teams of up to 50.

  • 80,000 shared units with rollover
  • Unlimited parallel generations
  • Shared workspace and priority support

• Enterprise

  Custom

  Large studios and brands.

  • SSO and dedicated support
  • Custom unit packages and limits

Prices in USD unless noted, checked 21 October 2026. Vendors change plans often, so confirm on their site before you buy.

Ways Krea can slot into your week.

1. 1

   Sketch a concept with a client

   Use Realtime in a meeting to rough out a layout or product idea and watch it render as you talk.

2. 2

   Product photo variations

   Use Krea 3 to swap backgrounds, colours and lighting on one product shot while the label stays exact.

3. 3

   Upscale for print

   Run a generated or old photo through the Enhancer before it goes on a banner or packaging.

4. 4

   A trained brand style

   Train a LoRA on your brand imagery so campaign images all share one look.

5. 5

   Brief the Agent

   Describe a short campaign and let the Agent produce the stills and a clip, then refine.

Krea is the making stage: generate, edit and upscale here, then lay out in Canva or Figma. Plugins for Photoshop, Blender and After Effects keep it inside a designer's tools, and the MCP and CLI let Claude Code or ChatGPT drive it.

The closest alternatives to Krea in the library, best rated first.

• Nano Banana4.6/5· best for editing photos by describing the changeKrea vs Nano Banana
• Canva4.5/5· best for social media posts and storiesKrea vs Canva
• ChatGPT Images4.2/5· best for mockups and signage with real textKrea vs ChatGPT Images
• Figma4.1/5· best for website and app designKrea vs Figma

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