Clico vs Krea

Clico

Clico has moved from a Mac screen assistant to a multi-model creative studio, and the pitch is now breadth: one credit pool buys chat with 27 models plus image, video and simple site generation, while the Mac app keeps the screen-context trick. That makes it a cheaper way to sample many models than several separate subscriptions. The cost is depth — each generator is a thin layer over someone else's model — and video eats credits fast.

Pros

• +One credit pool across web, Chrome extension and Mac app
• +All 27 current chat models on Pro, including frontier models from several vendors
• +Mac app answers about the chosen screen with hold-Fn voice input
• +Free tier of 200 credits a month with no card

Cons

• −Desktop app is Mac only
• −Credit costs vary by model, resolution and length, so usage is hard to predict
• −Terms page is marked as an unpublished draft

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 Clico cheaper than Krea?

On published entry prices, Clico starts lower — $16/mo against $21/mo for Krea. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Clico or Krea have a free tier?

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

Which has a public API, Clico or Krea?

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