Blimey vs Krea

Blimey

Blimey solves a real problem — text prompts cannot reliably fix camera angle, pose and colour placement — by making you rough out a 3D scene the model then renders. If you have a specific composition in your head, that is a much shorter route than re-rolling prompts. The risks are that it is one developer's side project and that the published changelog stops at v1.16 in March 2024, so buying the unlimited subscription is a bet on continued upkeep.

Pros

• +3D staging fixes composition, camera angle and pose before generation instead of after
• +Generates new 3D models from an uploaded or generated reference image when the library has no match
• +Depth, pose, style and background controls plus .obj import and saved scenes
• +30 free credits up front, and a pay-per-image option instead of a forced subscription

Cons

• −Built and maintained by one person, with a personal email as the only support channel
• −Desktop only — no web version, no mobile, no API
• −Scene setup costs time that a prompt-only generator does not
• −No trial of the unlimited tier beyond the 30 starter credits

Krea

Krea is the aggregator to pick when you want one subscription that covers image, video, upscaling and 3D instead of four, and the real-time canvas is still the fastest way to steer a composition by hand. The trade-off is that you are renting other people's models at a markup measured in compute units, so heavy video users should check the per-generation unit costs before trusting the headline price.

Pros

• +Real-time canvas renders in under 50 ms, which makes composition a direct-manipulation task
• +Own Krea 2 model plus a long list of third-party image and video models in one place
• +Free tier refills daily rather than once, so it stays usable for light work
• +Public API with an SDK and MCP server, and LoRA training from as few as 50 images

Cons

• −Compute units are an abstraction over very different model costs, so the monthly pool is hard to budget
• −Pro and Max units expire at month end and extra packs expire after 90 days
• −Visible prices and the page's structured data disagreed on the Max tier today
• −Video generation is unavailable on the free plan (video concurrency 0)

Is Blimey cheaper than Krea?

They charge in different units, so there is no like-for-like answer: Blimey starts at $9 once, Krea at $21/mo. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it.

Does Blimey or Krea have a free tier?

Both: Blimey has a free tier, and Krea has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Blimey or Krea?

Krea ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Blimey is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.