Krea 2

What is Krea 2?

Krea 2 is the first image model Krea trained entirely in-house, and Krea lists it as its latest. It turns text into images and takes its look from up to four style reference images or a whole moodboard, with sliders for intensity, complexity and movement. It comes as Medium, Large and a faster Turbo in the Krea app and API.

Krea also released the RAW and Turbo checkpoints, a 12B model, as open weights under its own license. Unlike Nano Banana 2, Krea 2 only makes new images; it cannot edit a photo you already have.

Is Krea 2 open source?

Partly: the weights are free to download, but under Krea's own community license rather than an open-source one.

Checkpoints

Krea 2 RAW, the undistilled base for LoRA training and fine-tuning, and Krea 2 Turbo, an 8-step model for fast images.

Commercial use

Allowed only while your company earns under $1 million a year; above that you need a paid license, from $1,000 a month per model.

Obligations

You must add content filters, and anyone who shares the model or a derivative must include Krea's license and start the model's name with Krea.

Not included

The style-reference system and the prompt expansion that Krea applies in its own app and API.

Who is Krea 2 best for?

Krea 2 is best for designers and creative teams who want images in a set visual style, steered by style references and moodboards rather than long prompts.

• Art-directed image sets

  Style references and moodboards set the look, so a series of images keeps one palette, texture and composition style without prompt tweaking.

• Fast rounds of ideas

  Krea says K2 returns images in about 15 seconds or less and Turbo in about 2, and a short prompt gives a varied set rather than four near-copies.

• Training your own style

  The open RAW checkpoint is built for LoRA training, and LoRAs trained on it run on the 8-step Turbo model for quick results.

• Apps that need an image API

  The Krea API sells K2 images from $0.015 each with commercial rights and no monthly minimum or seat fees.

What's included with Krea 2?

Style references, moodboards, a creativity setting and three generative sliders, in Medium, Large and Turbo versions, with your own LoRA styles on top.

Style references

Up to four reference images set the style, each with its own strength slider.

Moodboards

Point it at a saved collection of images and it follows the collection's palette, texture and mood.

Creativity setting

Raw, low, medium or high decides how much it adds to a short or vague prompt; medium is the default.

Generative sliders

Intensity, complexity and movement each run from -100 to 100 and change the result without rewriting the prompt.

Three versions

Medium for illustration and anime, Large for photorealism and texture, and Turbo for quick drafts.

Your own LoRA styles

Train a style or character in Krea and apply it to Krea 2 images; the Free plan allows training on 50 images.

How much does Krea 2 cost?

Krea 2 is free on Krea's Free plan, which gives 100 compute units a day, and paid plans cost $9, $35 or $105 a month, while the API charges $0.015 to $0.06 per image.

Paying yearly takes 40% off: Pro is $21 and Max $63 a month, and Basic about $5. Business costs $200 a month ($160 billed yearly) for 80,000 units shared by up to 50 members, and Enterprise is priced by sales. Units on Basic, Pro and Max do not roll over. The Krea API is billed apart from these plans with no monthly minimum: K2 Medium Turbo $0.015, K2 Medium $0.03 and K2 Large $0.06 per image. The Krea 2 RAW and Turbo weights are free to download under Krea's community license, which allows commercial use only below $1 million in yearly revenue; Krea's self-hosting license starts at $1,000 a month per model. Full pricing on krea.ai. We checked these prices on 28 Sep 2026.

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Krea 2 pros and cons

It is strong on style range and cheap per image, but it cannot edit existing images, photoreal results can look soft or grainy, and its open weights carry a revenue cap.

What are the best Krea 2 alternatives?

Three tools on Recaply do Krea 2's job. Z-Image is open source, so you can run it on your own server.

Z-ImageOpen Source

Choose it when photorealism matters most or you need open weights with no revenue cap; it is a 6B model under Apache 2.0, and its Turbo version fits in 16 GB of VRAM.

MidjourneyPaid

Choose it when you want a style-led subscription with its own moodboards, style references and video in one place; plans start at $10 a month and are all paid.

Nano Banana 2Free

Choose it when you need to edit existing images or render up to 4K; it costs $0.067 per 1K image on the Gemini API, more than four times K2 Medium Turbo.

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