Krea
One subscription across dozens of image, video and 3D models, metered in compute units
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- Category
- Image Generation & Editing
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- ai image generator
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Access
- Free plan available
What is this tool?
One subscription in place of several, with most of the well-known image and video models behind it, is the whole argument for Krea — run the same prompt through three of them and pick. Two things are worth knowing before the first paid month. Only paid plans carry a commercial licence, so nothing produced on the free tier can be sold or used for a client. And Krea's written promise not to train its models on your uploads and outputs covers the Business plan; for other plans the general Terms of Use say nothing either way, and fees already paid are not refunded.
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One prompt box sits in front of a model picker. You choose a model per job, generate, then edit, upscale or animate the result without leaving the page — ten editing models, an enhancer, an upscaler that reaches 22K, video from text or from your own image, and 3D and lipsync models on the paid tiers. LoRA training sits alongside, so a face or product you use often becomes a model of its own. Everything runs in a browser; no desktop or mobile app is named on the vendor's pages.
What you are actually buying is a compute-unit allowance: 100 a day free, then 20,000 a month on Pro, 60,000 on Max and 80,000 on Business. Units expire monthly on individual plans and roll over only on monthly Business and Enterprise; extra packs can be bought but lapse after 90 days. Yearly billing, which Krea advertises as saving 40%, brings Pro to $21 a month, Max to $63 and Business to $160, against $35, $105 and $200 monthly. Krea's pricing page showed different plan lineups during our checks, some with a Basic tier and some without, so the figures here are only those that were the same in every version.
The contract is softer than the plan cards in two places worth knowing. The Terms describe the commercial right as Krea 'may allow you to commercialize certain Content', subject to its copyright dispute policy. And the Privacy Policy, while setting out retention for account and payment data, prints no retention period at all for the images and video you generate.
Is this right for you?
Quick fit check against how you actually work.
Choose this if
- You want to compare several image or video models on the same prompt without holding a subscription for each
- Real-time generation is part of how you work — sketching, primitives or a screen share turned into images as you move
- Your output has to be commercially licensed, which starts on the first paid tier
- You train LoRAs on your own faces, products or styles and want that in the same place as generation
- You want one tool to cover stills, short video, 3D and upscaling rather than a chain of them
Consider alternatives if
- You need a settled plan lineup to budget against: Krea's pricing page showed different sets of plans when checked, so confirm what is on offer at checkout
- Your policy requires a written no-training commitment and you will not be on Business: Krea makes that commitment in its Business terms, and the general Terms of Use say nothing either way
- You want to buy exactly the capability you need: everything shares one compute-unit allowance, so a month of video and a month of stills cost very differently on the same plan
- You expect to change your mind mid-term, because subscriptions cannot be ended before the paid period is over and fees already paid are not refunded
Key features
What you can actually do with this tool.
One catalogue instead of several subscriptions
Krea 2 and Krea-1 sit beside Flux, Imagen, Nano Banana, Ideogram, Seedream, ChatGPT Image and Qwen for images, and Veo 3, Sora 2, Kling, Wan, Runway, Hailuo and Seedance for video, selectable per job. The practical value is comparison: the same prompt through three models, then pick, without three accounts.
Compute units as the single meter
Generation, video, enhancement, editing and model training all draw on the same allowance, which is why a month can be sized in advance but not in generations — a video costs far more than an image. Units do not roll over on individual plans; they do on monthly Business and Enterprise. Bought compute packs must be used within 90 days.
Real-time generation
Primitives, a drawing or a shared screen turn into a finished-looking image in well under a second. The free daily allowance carries the real-time models in full rather than in a reduced form, which is unusual — on most products the distinctive capability is the one behind the paywall.
Upscaling and restoration with Topaz models
The upscaler runs Krea's own and Topaz Photo and Gigapixel models over stills, and video can be upscaled too. The vendor states the obvious limit itself: upscaling cannot recover detail that was never captured, so heavily blurred or motion-blurred sources stay poor.
LoRA fine-tuning on your own face, product or style
Train a model on a handful of your own images and reuse it in later generations — 50 images on Pro, up to 2,000 and unlimited training on Max. For product or character consistency this is the difference between prompting for a look and owning one.
An API billed in dollars, not compute units
The REST API is a separate prepaid balance priced per generation — Flux $0.04 an image, Nano Banana Pro $0.15, Topaz $0.10 per upscale, Veo 3 $0.20 and Sora 2 $0.10 per second of video — with failed or cancelled jobs not charged. Clips run 2 to 12 seconds and uploads cap at 75 MB. Budget it separately from the seat.
Plans & pricing
Pricing tiers and what's included in each.
Free
$0 /month
- 100 compute units / day
- 'No credit card required'
- Full access to real-time models
- Limited image upscaling and limited LoRA training
- Output is not licensed for commercial use
Pro
$35/month
- 20,000 compute units / month
- $21/month billed yearly
- All video models
- App Builder and Nodes Agent
- Bulk discounts on compute-unit packs
- Commercial license
Max
$105/month
- 60,000 compute units / month
- $63/month billed yearly
- Unlimited LoRA training with 2,000 images
- Unlimited relaxed generations
- Expanded concurrency and queueing
Business
$200/month
- 80,000 compute units / month
- $160/month billed yearly
- Business Terms of Service with a no-training commitment for your inputs and outputs
- Up to 50 seats
- Unused compute units roll over month to month
- Private Node Apps, custom user roles and permissions, model-access controls
Enterprise
Custom
- Custom compute packages and a custom Terms of Service
- Priority support with an SLA
- Per-member spend limits, Slack connect, audit logs
Official pricing pagePricing may have changed. Always verify before purchasing.
Frequently asked
Common questions about this tool, answered.
What does the free tier actually let me do?
100 compute units a day with no credit card, full access to the real-time models, and limited upscaling and LoRA training. It is enough to judge speed, interface and model quality. What it is not is a licence: output generated or edited on the free tier is not licensed for commercial use, and that only changes on a paid plan.
How should I size a plan when everything shares one allowance?
Work backwards from the most expensive thing you do. Compute units cover image generation, video, enhancement, editing and training, and video is by far the heaviest of them, so a plan chosen on an image workload will not survive a month of clips. Nothing unspent carries forward on an individual plan, and extra packs expire after 90 days, so steady monthly use is cheaper than bursts.
Is the API part of my subscription?
No. API usage draws on its own prepaid balance, priced in dollars per generation rather than in compute units, and a job that fails or is cancelled is not charged. App compute and API balance are tracked separately, so an API project needs its own budget line and its own forecast — the per-model rates are on the API pricing table.
Do my uploads or prompts train Krea's models?
On the Business plan, no: Krea's Business terms commit that it will not use Business subscription inputs or outputs to train its AI models, and that covers all content created through a Business team account. For the other plans, neither the general Terms of Use nor the Privacy Policy addresses training either way. That is an absence rather than a denial, which matters if your work involves client images or unreleased products: unless you are on Business, get the position from the vendor in writing before the first upload.