Krea

A real-time AI creation workbench: 50ms-class generate-as-you-draw, 60+ image/video models in one place, and open-sourced weights for its in-house Krea 2.

While AI image generators broadly stick to the batch paradigm of “type a prompt, wait for the output,” Krea chose a different path: real time. Its signature capability is instant rendering in under 50 milliseconds — drag a color block across the canvas, scribble a few rough strokes, or even pipe in a live feed from your camera or screen, and the finished image on the right grows in sync with every brushstroke. Realtime Edit, launched in January this year, pushes this “what you draw is what you get” experience further into video and editing workflows.

Krea also wears another hat: model aggregator. More than 60 mainstream image/video models — Flux, Veo, Kling, Runway, Ideogram, and more — are on tap in a single interface, along with 22K image upscaling, 8K video enhancement, 120fps frame interpolation, and LoRA fine-tuning, covering the full pipeline from generation to final polish.

What truly pushed Krea into the mainstream in 2026 was its in-house model, Krea 2. This 12.9B-parameter Diffusion Transformer is built around “aesthetics first,” emphasizing style diversity and moodboard-style creative control. After its official release in May, both versions landed on Hugging Face as open weights in June under a commercially friendly license — for a platform that aggregates other companies’ models to open-source its own flagship back to the community is a genuinely rare move.

The free tier offers 100 compute units per day for long-term use, the $9/month tier keeps the entry bar low, and heavy users can step up a tier to unlock unlimited relaxed generations. For designers who need to iterate on visual concepts fast, Krea is currently one of the most complete options for “real-time interactive generation.”

Source: Agentopia · Full site machine catalog at /llms.txt