Krea is an AI creative suite from Krea for generating and editing images, video and 3D content, distinguished by combining its own in-house Krea models with a curated set of third-party models inside one editor. Alongside text-to-image generation, Krea ships inpainting and outpainting tools plus an upscaling feature called Enhancer, and it serves both casual users on a free daily allowance and developers building on its API.
Who builds it
Krea is developed by Krea, a company positioning its product as a full creative suite rather than a single-purpose generator. The platform spans image, video and 3D generation under one roof, with an editor that layers inpainting, outpainting and upscaling on top of generation instead of treating them as separate tools. Krea also maintains an enterprise track, signaling an ambition to serve production teams as well as individual creators and hobbyists.
What it does
At its core, Krea turns text prompts into images and lets you keep refining the result in place. Inpainting and outpainting are built into the editor, so you can redraw a selected region or extend a canvas beyond its original borders without leaving the app. Krea does not lock users into one proprietary model: it gives access to what it describes as multiple leading models, letting a single interface span styles from photorealism to illustration, and these can be combined with Krea's own in-house models. Generations top out at 4K, equivalent to 16 megapixels, and the Enhancer feature adds resolution and detail to existing images through AI upscaling. All of this is also reachable outside the web app through a pay-as-you-go API, so the same generation and editing pipeline can be wired into external products and workflows.
Pricing
Krea runs on a freemium model. The free tier includes a daily allowance of compute units, enough to explore image generation and the editor without paying anything. Paid plans start at $9/month and, notably, bundle a commercial license into the base subscription rather than selling it as a separate add-on. Developers who need programmatic access instead pay through a separate pay-as-you-go API pricing track, billed by usage rather than a flat monthly fee.
Rights and provenance
Krea's commercial terms are tiered rather than unconditional: usage rights are described as commercial with limits, meaning a paid plan unlocks a commercial license, but the precise scope of permitted commercial use is defined in Krea's own terms rather than being unlimited by default. On ownership, Krea states that users own what they create, a claim the company repeats in materials aimed at enterprise customers evaluating the platform for internal or client work. Krea's public materials do not describe a formal content-provenance or watermarking standard such as C2PA, so teams that need visible or embedded AI labeling for compliance reasons should confirm current behavior directly with Krea rather than assume a default. For anyone comparing tools, the practical trade-off Krea offers is breadth: access to many models plus an integrated editing and upscaling pipeline, with a commercial license included in every paid tier starting at $9/month.