Krea
64+ models, a sub-50ms realtime canvas and an open-weights in-house foundation model for $9/month — the best value in creative AI, if you accept opaque compute units and Discord-only support.
PRICING
| Free | Free | 100 compute units/day |
| Basic | $8.75/mo | 5,000 units/mo; $63/yr billed annually |
| Pro | $35/mo | 20,000 units/mo; $252/yr billed annually |
| Max | $105/mo | 60,000 units/mo; $756/yr billed annually |
| Business | $200/mo | 80,000 units/mo, up to 50 seats; $1,920/yr |
| Enterprise | Custom | custom compute allocation |
Billing is by compute units, roughly $1.75 per 1,000 units on monthly billing. Yearly billing saves 40% on individual plans (20% on Business), so the page headlines $5.25/$21/$63/$160 per month when the yearly toggle is on. Max and Business have credit sliders (Max 40k-100k, Business 20k-1.5M units), so their price scales with the pack chosen; the figures here are the default sizes.
checked 2026-07-25 · vendor pricing page
Element scores
Strengths
One subscription aggregates 64+ frontier image/video/3D models, usually live the week they release, next to Krea 2 — the first in-house foundation model, ranked #6 globally and #1 among independent labs on Artificial Analysis (02/06/2026), with Raw and Turbo checkpoints open-weighted under a permissive license on 23/06/2026. The sub-50ms realtime canvas is unmatched, upscaling reaches 22K with Topaz models, LoRA training locks brand styles, and Nodes + App Builder + API turn workflows into repeatable pipelines.
Honest dings
Compute-unit pricing is opaque — you often learn what a job costs after running it, and credits don't roll over. Support is Discord-only with recurring billing complaints. Guardrails and eval tooling are thin, video quality is hostage to third-party model performance, and there is no vector export for finished logo/brand work.
Sources (9) — every claim traceable
Every audit lists the research it rests on — transparency and traceability are the product. Tools evolve: each audit is a snapshot of its audit date, and re-audits supersede older versions (kept below for reference).
- krea.ai/pricing — Official plans and compute units per tier, Krea 2/Nodes/App Builder/Nodes Agent feature matrix, 'Trusted by 40M' claim (accessed 2026-07-20)
- krea.ai/docs/changelog — Official changelog: Krea 2 launch 12/05/2026, Turbo 03/06, Artificial Analysis #6 ranking 02/06, open weights + technical report 23/06, API media inputs incl. MCP get_upload_url (accessed 2026-07-20)
- krea.ai/index/new-krea — Official Series B post 07/04/2025: $83M total raised (Bain Capital Ventures, a16z, Pebblebed, Abstract), 20M users, revenue 20x'd (accessed 2026-07-20)
- techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/kreas-founders-snubbed-po… — Independent: $500M post-money valuation, tranche breakdown ($3M seed / $33M A / $47M B), San Francisco HQ, enterprise users incl. Pixar, LEGO, Samsung (accessed 2026-07-20)
- krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report — Official technical report for the open-weights Krea 2 Raw and Turbo checkpoints (23/06/2026) (accessed 2026-07-20)
- tooljunction.io/ai-tools/krea — Independent review: 64+ model aggregation, Max plan cut $105→$70, Discord-only support and billing complaints, credits don't roll over (accessed 2026-07-20)
- piclumen.com/blog/krea-ai-review — Independent hands-on: compute-unit opacity as real friction, free-tier limits on video, Topaz enhancer value (accessed 2026-07-20)
- theplanettools.ai/tools/krea-ai — Independent: full 2026 plan table incl. Business $200/50 seats, sub-50ms canvas measurement, 30M+ users across 191 countries (accessed 2026-07-20)
- gstory.ai/blog/krea-ai — Independent: growing user criticism that pricing doesn't match delivered value; feature overview of enhancement and realtime editing (accessed 2026-07-20)