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Krea

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Text-to-Image Generators1Write a reviewUnited StatesEffect71/ 100

Creative suite with a real-time canvas, image and video generation, upscaling and 3D across its own and third-party models

realtime generationimage upscaling text to image image editingFreemium · from $21/mo

Listed on EffectHub · Aug 16, 2026

InputsTOutputsWeb · API

Screenshot of the Krea website — krea.ai as we captured it — our own screenshot, not the vendor’s press image.

Pricing

Pricing model: Freemium
Paid options from: $21/mo
Billing: Monthly

Compute-unit plans: Free refills 100 units a day with 2K upscaling and one image at a time; Pro is $35 month-to-month or $21/mo billed yearly for 20,000 units a month; Max $70 ($42/mo yearly) for 60,000 units; Business $200 (shown at $160/mo yearly) for 80,000 units and up to 50 seats; Enterprise is custom. Pro and Max units do not roll over; extra packs are one-time and expire after 90 days. The page advertises 40% off on yearly plans.

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Overview

About Krea

Krea bundles image, video and 3D generation into one browser workspace, with a real-time canvas that redraws the picture as you sketch or move primitives instead of queueing a job. It runs its own Krea 2 image model next to third-party ones such as Flux, Ideogram, Gemini, Seedance, Veo, Sora, Kling and Runway, and adds an upscaler to 22K, video upscaling to 8K with frame interpolation, background removal, text-to-3D and LoRA training on your own images. Everything is metered in compute units: a free tier refills 100 units a day, paid plans give a monthly pool, and a public API with an SDK and MCP server exposes the same models to developers. The operator is Krea.ai, Inc. in San Francisco.

Platforms: Web · API
API: Yes
Last verified: Oct 16, 2026

Verified sources

Free $0 with 100 units/day, 2K upscaling, video concurrency 0; Pro $35 struck to $21/month on yearly billing for 20,000 units; Max $70 ($42 yearly) for 60,000 units; Business $200 ($160 yearly) for 80,000 units and up to 50 seats; 'Save 40% on yearly plans'; Pro and Max units do not roll over; extra packs valid 90 days; structured data lists Max at $70 and 40,000 units (15 October 2026)krea.ai ↗
Terms name KREA.AI, INC., 2637 Buchanan Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, governed by California law (15 October 2026)krea.ai ↗
Realtime canvas 'in less than 50ms'; Krea 2 foundation image model; Flux, Ideogram, Gemini, Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.5, Sora 2, Kling, Hailuo, Wan, Runway; upscaling to 22K, video to 8K at 120fps; text-to-3D; LoRA training; Krea 2 RAW and Turbo released on GitHub and Hugging Face (15 October 2026)krea.ai ↗
Public API for image and video generation and enhancement with a playground, @krea-ai/sdk on npm, an MCP server and workspace API tokens (15 October 2026)krea.ai ↗

Fact check

Is Krea legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered: Jun 10, 2022 (4 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
TLS certificate: Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 24, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
Last checked: Oct 16, 2026The site answered
Operated by: Krea.ai, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of Krea

medium confidence

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)

Best for

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

Not for

Teams that need a single model's full parameter set, where the model vendor's own interface goes deeper
Budget-constrained users generating lots of video, since units for video burn far faster than for images

Watch out: The $21 Pro price is the yearly-billed rate; month-to-month is $35, and unused units on Pro and Max vanish at the end of each month.

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