Krea
7index_KREA.AI, INC.USA
A creative image and video studio by US-based Krea: generation, editing, upscaling, and LoRA training on one canvas. Its bet is its own open Krea 2 model plus third-party models on top of it.
Facts
- The legal entity is KREA.AI, INC., also named as the contracting party in the terms of use (krea.ai/business-terms, 19.08.2026); it is based in San Francisco, and its founders are Spanish. It has raised 83 million $ across three rounds, the latest a 47 million $ Series B on 07.04.2025 led by Bain Capital Ventures with Andreessen Horowitz participation, at a 500 million $ valuation (TechCrunch 07.04.2025, Crunchbase).
- Krea 2 is an in-house model series for creative exploration, not a single polished default; its technical report was published on 23.06.2026. It was released openly in two checkpoints: RAW (base, undistilled, for fine-tuning and LoRA) and Turbo (an 8-step distillate for fast generation); LoRAs are trained on RAW and applied to Turbo. Inference code is Apache 2.0, the krea-ai/krea-2 repository was created on 22.06.2026, with 763 stars on 19.08.2026.
- The platform is not limited to its own model: as of 19.08.2026, the web app lists 20+ image models and third-party video models (Veo 3, Kling, Hailuo, Runway, Seedance 2.5), native 4K, image upscaling to 22K and video upscaling to 8K, 3D generation from text and images, a real-time canvas, and LoRA training for images and video (krea.ai, snapshot 19.08.2026).
- Plans as of 19.08.2026: free with 100 compute units per day; Basic 9 $/month (5000 units), Pro 35 $ (20 000, all video models), Max 105 $ (60 000), Business 200 $ (80 000, up to 50 seats), Enterprise on request. The vendor promises business subscribers full commercial rights to output and does not train models on it.
Full profile in the works: a “worth it or not” verdict, pricing, access from Russia, and comparisons with nearby alternatives will appear as the card factory progresses.