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Glif vs Krea

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Entry price
Glif from $1.99 once, Krea from $21/mo — different billing units, so no direct winner
Free plan
Both have one
Public API
Both have one
Higher Trust score
Krea — 91 vs 85 for Glif
Best fit
Glif: Builders who want a reusable AI workflow exposed as an API or MCP tool · Krea: Designers and concept artists who iterate visually on a canvas rather than through prompt rewrites

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

GlifRuns small AI workflows ('glifs') that chain image, video, and audio models from a single text brief.KreaCreative suite with a real-time canvas, image and video generation, upscaling and 3D across its own and third-party models

Side by side

FactGlifKrea
CategoryText-to-Image GeneratorsText-to-Image Generators
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$1.99 once$21/mo
Public APIYesYes
Trust score85 / 10091 / 100
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanySpellcasters, Inc.Krea.ai, Inc.
Last verifiedSep 1, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Glif

Glif is worth trying for someone who wants to chain several different AI models into one repeatable creative workflow without picking each model manually, and the daily free credits are enough to test that before paying. The catch is credit pricing is fragmented across small top-up packs and separate subscription tiers, making a real monthly cost hard to predict in advance.

Pros

  • Automatically routes a brief to the right model among 100-plus options
  • Finished workflows can be reused, remixed, or called as an API
  • MCP integration lets glifs run inside Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT
  • Daily free credits with no signup cost

Cons

  • Credit pricing is split across small packs and subscriptions, unclear at a glance
  • Output quality depends on whichever model the platform auto-selects

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)

Which one fits

Choose Glif if you need

  • Builders who want a reusable AI workflow exposed as an API or MCP tool
  • Creatives experimenting across image, video, and audio models in one place

Choose Krea if you need

  • Designers and concept artists who iterate visually on a canvas rather than through prompt rewrites
  • Small studios that want current image and video models under one bill without managing API keys
  • Anyone upscaling and cleaning up stills or short clips for print or social

Glif vs Krea: the questions people ask

Is Glif cheaper than Krea?

They charge in different units, so there is no like-for-like answer: Glif starts at $1.99 once, Krea at $21/mo. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it.

Does Glif or Krea have a free tier?

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

Which has a public API, Glif or Krea?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.

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