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Krea vs PromptsGenii

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
Krea from $21/mo, PromptsGenii from $49 once — different billing units, so no direct winner
Free plan
Only Krea (PromptsGenii has paid plans only)
Public API
Krea has one; not confirmed by us for PromptsGenii
Higher Trust score
Krea — 91 vs 81 for PromptsGenii
Best fit
Krea: Designers and concept artists who iterate visually on a canvas rather than through prompt rewrites · PromptsGenii: Reverse-engineering a prompt from a reference image

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

Side by side

FactKreaPromptsGenii
CategoryText-to-Image GeneratorsPrompt Engineering & Libraries
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starts at$21/mo$49 once
Public APIYesNot confirmed
Trust score91 / 10081 / 100
PlatformsWeb, APIChrome extension, Web
CompanyKrea.ai, Inc.MagicMakersLab
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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)

PromptsGenii

The pitch is that picking a style from a visual list beats remembering prompt vocabulary, and the image-to-prompt step is the genuinely useful part - reverse-engineering a reference you already like. A one-time $49 licence with no recurring fee is unusual and worth something. The risk is the flip side of lifetime pricing: no recurring revenue means no guarantee anyone keeps it current.

Pros

  • Converts an uploaded image into a starting text prompt
  • More than fifteen filter categories - artists, architecture, styles - to layer onto a prompt
  • Refines prompts through OpenAI or Gemini, so you are not tied to one model's phrasing
  • One-time licence with no recurring charge, and seat packs for teams
  • Public roadmap and changelog show what is being worked on

Cons

  • Chrome and Edge only - no Safari, Firefox or standalone app
  • Lifetime pricing means future updates depend entirely on the vendor's goodwill
  • MagicMakersLab publishes no country, address or team
  • $49 up front with no free tier visible to test the filters first

Which one fits

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

Choose PromptsGenii if you need

  • Reverse-engineering a prompt from a reference image
  • People who prefer picking styles from a list over writing prompt text
  • Small teams sharing seats through the built-in licence manager

Krea vs PromptsGenii: the questions people ask

Is Krea cheaper than PromptsGenii?

They charge in different units, so there is no like-for-like answer: Krea starts at $21/mo, PromptsGenii at $49 once. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it.

Does Krea or PromptsGenii have a free tier?

Krea has a free tier; PromptsGenii has paid plans only.

Which has a public API, Krea or PromptsGenii?

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

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