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Krea 2 Technical Report
Technical report for Krea 2 (K2), our open-weights text-to-image foundation models for creative exploration. Release includes K2 Raw and K2 Turbo open weights.
From almost to Doodles
How Doodles found a visually literate model in Krea 2 and taught it their style.
Rebuilding the fashion workflow
How Taskin Goec rebuilds fashion's most expensive steps with Krea.
A runway show without a runway
How Taskin Goec brought an all-AI collection to Berlin Fashion Week with Krea.
Introducing Generative Sliders
Krea 2 now includes Generative Sliders for shaping intensity, complexity, movement, and prompt creativity while generating images.
AI in architecture studios – Krea Podcast with Nitsan Bartov
Krea Podcast episode two with Nitsan Bartov on AI in architecture studios, visual communication, video, and design culture.
Krea 2 Turbo: Generate Images in 2 Seconds
Krea 2 Turbo generates high-quality images in 2 seconds, with style references, moodboards, and LoRAs, in the faster Krea 2 experience.
"Reality is so boring" – Krea Podcast with Boldtron, Serialcut, and Remembering_orion
A short Krea podcast interview with Boldtron on AI, creative confidence, surreal image-making and creating the things you wish existed.
We are partnering with Henning Larsen
Krea partners with Henning Larsen Architects to integrate AI-powered design tools into their architectural workflow.
Krea 2 LoRA Training: Public LoRAs in Krea Train
How Krea 2 LoRA training works in Krea Train: train a style, character, or object, then keep it private or make it a public LoRA others can reuse.
Moodboard Gallery in Krea 2 + Preview of Random and Auto
Moodboard Gallery now includes thousands of moodboards in Krea 2, with new Random and Auto moodboard selection modes in preview.
Krea 2 API
Krea 2 is our first foundation image model, trained completely from scratch to give users full control over the look, feel, and creative direction.
Krea 2 Prompting Guide: Exploration, Style References, Moodboards
A Krea 2 prompting guide: start vague and let the model explore, carry a look with style references, and set a whole aesthetic with moodboards.
Krea 2 LoRA training is now available
Train custom Krea 2 LoRAs — styles, characters, or objects — and use them in the Image tool. In beta for Max and Business subscribers.
Mood boards in Krea 2
Mood boards are one of the new tools in Krea 2 — more than four references, deeper style + concept capture, and presets for fast exploration.
What Is Krea 2? Krea's Foundation Image Model
Krea 2 is Krea's foundation image model, built from scratch for style transfer, style mixing, and creative control across any visual style.
Krea 2 Large shines in style fidelity
Contra Labs found Krea 2 Large within 0.14 points of GPT Image 2 on Style Fidelity in a four-model style-transfer benchmark.
Seedance 2.0: now on Krea
Seedance 2.0 is available on Krea on all paid plans. Best-in-class motion coherence and cinematic camera control.
Annotations in Krea Edit
Mark up multiple regions, write a separate prompt for each one, and generate all the changes in a single pass.
The Node Agent
Describe what you want, and watch our agent make it happen. Creative workflows, without the complexity.
A New, More Powerful Krea Edit
Change specific regions, render new perspectives, adjust lighting, apply color palettes, and more. A rebuilt editing tool with fine-grained AI control.
Turn Any Image Into a Prompt
Drop any image into Krea and get a detailed, generation-ready prompt in seconds. AI vision analyzes style, lighting, composition, and more.
Krea Redesign
Krea's biggest interface redesign to date. Unified navigation, transparent model selection, drag-and-drop workflows, customizable workspace, and a rebuilt mobile experience.
Introducing Voice Mode
Introducing Voice Mode for Krea on iPad: speak while you draw and the canvas updates in real time for faster ideation and hands-free creative iteration.
Meet Nano Banana 2, Google's Latest Image Model
Nano Banana 2 is faster, cheaper, and produces higher quality results. The next generation of Google Deepmind image model is available now.
Prompt-to-Workflow
Create entire node workflows from text instructions. Describe what you want to build and Krea Nodes generates the workflow for you.
Krea Realtime Edit: Paint and Watch AI Respond Live
Krea Realtime Edit lets you paint, stream your webcam or screen, and watch AI edit the image instantly, with no generate button and no wait.
Krea Realtime 14B: Real-Time, Long-Form AI Video Generation
We release Krea Realtime 14B, a 14-billion parameter model capable of real-time, long-form video generation.
Releasing Open Weights for FLUX.1 Krea
Krea announces the open release of FLUX.1 Krea, including model weights, training details, and resources to run and fine-tune the model.
A New Krea
Krea announces its Series B funding.
Krea Teams: Creative Collaboration Made Easy
Krea Teams lets your whole studio share styles, moodboards, and generated assets in one workspace — with shared billing and admin controls.
Announcing Krea Ship Week
Seven days, seven releases — Krea Ship Week brought new tools, models, and features every day.
Articles
AI Product Photography in 2026: Tools, Prompts, and a Working Pipeline
How e-commerce teams make AI product photos in 2026 — a generate-edit-upscale pipeline with Krea, plus Photoroom, Flair.ai, and Claid compared, with copy-paste prompts.
The Best Free AI Video Generators in 2026
Compare the real free routes to AI video in 2026 — Google Flow (Veo), Kling, Hailuo, Pika, and Krea — by daily credits, clip length, watermarks, and what happens after Sora's shutdown.
7 Canva Alternatives for AI-First Design in 2026
The best Canva alternatives in 2026 — Krea, Figma, Adobe Express, Gamma, Microsoft Designer, Picsart, and Kittl — ranked by what you actually make, with verified free tiers.
ChatGPT vs Midjourney: Which AI Image Generator Should You Use in 2026?
An honest head-to-head of ChatGPT and Midjourney in 2026 — prompt understanding vs aesthetic ceiling, real pricing (Midjourney has no free tier), and when a third option wins.
The Top 10 AI Tools in 2026, by What You Actually Make
The top 10 AI tools in 2026, organized by job — writing, images, video, code, meetings, research, and automation — with one winner, one alternative, and a starter prompt for each.
The 6 Best AI Image Upscalers in 2026
Compare the best AI image upscalers in 2026 — Krea Enhancer, Magnific, Topaz Gigapixel, Upscayl, Adobe Super Resolution, and Let's Enhance — for fidelity, creative detail, and price.
The Best AI Tools for Architectural Rendering in 2026
Compare the best AI architectural rendering tools in 2026 — Krea, Veras, D5 Render, LookX, and Midjourney — matched to each stage of a real archviz workflow.
The 7 Best Free AI Image Generators in 2026
Compare the best free AI image generators in 2026 — Krea, ChatGPT, Gemini, Ideogram, Leonardo, Copilot, and Canva — by what their free tiers actually let you make.
Kling 3.0 API Access: Guide, Pricing, Code Examples for multi-shot AI video
Call the Kling 3.0 API on Krea: endpoint, working JavaScript and Python, measured prices and render times, and the multi_prompt field that directs timed shots.
Seedance 2.0 API Access: Guide, Pricing, Code Examples for video generation
Seedance 2.0 API access on Krea: the endpoint, a runnable file, every parameter, measured generation times, and what a 1080p clip actually costs.
Seedance 2.5 API Access: Guide, Features, Code Examples for long-form video
Seedance 2.5 API access: 30 second single-shot generations, 30 reference images, and how it differs from Seedance 2.0, with runnable code and measured render times.
Seedance 2.5 Makes a Full 30-Second UGC Ad in One Shot (2026 Guide)
Make a full 30-second UGC video ad in one Seedance 2.5 generation from two reference images. The exact prompts, the script rules, and measured render times.
Seedance 2.5 vs Kling 3.0: Which AI Video Model Should You Choose?
Seedance 2.5 vs Kling 3.0: compare AI video model limits, references, duration, resolution, and pricing to pick the right one fast.
Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0: Tested on a Real Fashion Brief
Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0, tested on Krea with a real fashion brief: matched generations checking truth to the clothes, prompt alignment, multi-reference handling, take length, and native resolution.
Best Color Combinations: 5 Aesthetic Palettes to Try in 2026
Five aesthetic color combinations, each with real generations and a copy-paste prompt formula you can reuse by swapping only the subject.
Cozy Interior Design: What Makes a Space Feel Warm, Calm, and Lived In
What actually makes an interior feel cozy: visual weight, soft materials, light that falls away, and the restraint that keeps warmth from crowding.
Seedance 2.5: What's New, How It Works, and What You Can Do With It
Seedance 2.5 explained: what changed from Seedance 2.0, how reference-guided generation works in practice, and what you can build with it on Krea.
Spot the AI
Thanks to Cream Productions and Krea, AI and the camera end up in the same frame.
Bending the Kubernetes scheduler
How we make the default Kubernetes scheduler pack GPU workloads into the cluster first and spill to overflow capacity only when it's full, using dynamic taints, the Descheduler, and Kueue.
Train in cluster, infer anywhere
How Krea shares GPUs between research and production with a custom solution that lets inference scale anywhere when training claims every GPU.
MiniMax H3 Prompting Guide: 10 Best Prompts for AI Film, Influencers, and Omni-Reference (2026)
A practical MiniMax H3 (Hailuo 3) prompting guide: how to structure a prompt brief, plus 10 copy-paste prompts for AI film, influencer continuity, and omni-reference control.
MiniMax H3: What’s New, Benefits, and 6 Prompts to Try in 2026
MiniMax H3 delivers better control for short AI video. Explore new features, key benefits, and 6 prompts to try in 2026.
10 Best Seedance 2.5 Prompts for Cinematic AI Videos (2026)
Discover the 10 best Seedance 2.5 prompts for cinematic AI videos in 2026, with copy-ready direction for 30-second native clips.
17 Interior Design Styles You Need to Know in 2026
Discover 17 interior design styles you need to know in 2026, from Japandi to period looks, to plan smarter décor decisions fast.
6 Ways to Use AI for Interior Design in 2026
Six practical ways to use AI for interior design in 2026: photo-based room restyles, material studies, variations, buildability checks, and client presentations.
8 Popular Interior Decoration Styles in 2026: Prompts to Preview Your Room
Explore 8 Popular Interior Decoration Styles in 2026 with room-style prompts to preview layouts, materials, and mood before you commit.
Eclectic Interior Design: 7 Ideas and AI Prompts for 2026
Eclectic interior design ideas and AI prompts for 2026: pick a color anchor, repeat materials, and test contrast for cohesive, not chaotic rooms.
Seedream 4.0 vs Flux: Which Image Generator Is Better in 2026?
Seedream 4.0 vs Flux in 2026: choose Seedream for text-heavy, brand-consistent marketing at scale, Flux for realistic hero imagery.
Seedream 5.0 Pro vs Seedream 4.0: Which Image Generator Should You Use?
Seedream 5.0 Pro vs Seedream 4.0: choose the right image generator for spatial edits, dense layouts, or fast native 4K output.
The 5 Best Midjourney Alternatives in 2026 (3 of Them Free)
Discover the 5 best Midjourney alternatives in 2026, including 3 free options like Krea 2, Nano Banana 2, and FLUX.2.
Top 6 AI Video Models for Ecommerce Ads in 2026
Compare the top 6 AI video models for ecommerce ads in 2026 — Kling, Seedance, Creatify, Runway, Veo, and PixVerse — and which ad job each one fits.
What Is Scandinavian Design? Core Principles and How to Use Them in Your Home
What is Scandinavian design? Learn core principles like functional simplicity, warm natural materials, and everyday comfort to avoid empty minimalism.
7 Seedream 5 Pro Use Cases for Marketers: Ads, Product Images, and Campaign Creative (2026)
Seedream 5 Pro use cases for marketers: update approved ads, product images, and campaign creative with region edits that preserve layout and lighting.
The 5 Best AI Video Models for UGC Shorts in 2026
Discover the 5 Best AI video models for UGC shorts in 2026, optimized for reference control, native audio, vertical output, and fast iteration.
The 5 Best AI Video Models on Krea in 2026
Compare Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.5, Kling 3.0, Sora 2, and Runway Gen-4.5 on Krea in 2026, ranked for quality, character continuity, motion, audio, and creative control.
15 Architectural Styles to Create With Seedream 5.0 Pro on Krea in 2026
Create 15 architectural styles with Seedream 5.0 Pro on Krea in 2026, using references, anchors, and layers for consistent, revision-ready renders.
15 Powerful Seedream 5.0 Pro Prompts for Photorealism, Product Shots, Portraits & More (Krea-Optimized)
Seedream 5.0 Pro prompts for photorealism, product shots, portraits, and more. Get Krea-ready prompt jobs for sharper renders.
8 Best AI Interior Design Tools in 2026, Compared
Discover the 8 best AI interior design tools in 2026, compared for layout control, material edits, and furniture scale with top pick Krea AI.
Seedream 5.0 Pro on Krea: 12 Complex Infographic Reasoning Examples (2026)
Seedream 5.0 Pro on Krea: 12 complex infographic reasoning examples (2026) showing how to plan hierarchy, label accuracy, and targeted edits.
Seedream 5.0 Pro on Krea for Product Photography: 15 Pro-Level Examples (2026)
Seedream 5.0 Pro on Krea for product photography: 15 pro-level examples showing precise material, color, and label edits for approval.
What Is Seedance 2.5 and What Can It Do
Everything new in Seedance 2.5: how it compares to Seedance 2.0, what changed with references and region editing, example prompts, and how to use it on Krea.
Seedream 5.0 Pro - Live on Krea
Seedream 5.0 Pro is an advanced image generation and editing model with web search and deep reasoning capabilities. Use it on Krea today.
10 Best Style Prompts For AI Image Generation In 2026
We spent a few weeks testing a wide range of prompts across different aesthetics and styles for image generation, and based on our experiences with them, these are the best.
30+ Best Nano Banana Prompts to Copy & Paste in 2026
Copy 30+ Nano Banana prompts for Gemini image generation. Free templates for portraits, product shots, ads, characters, styles, poses, and multi-image blends.
8 Best Creative AI Image Generators in 2026
We spent a few weeks testing all the AI image generator tools we could get our hands on, and based on our experiences with them, these are the best.
How to Enhance Images with Magnific in Krea
Magnific is useful when an image needs more resolution and more believable detail, not just a sharper resize.
How to Enhance Images with Magnific Precise in Krea
A simple guide to enhancing recent Assets images with Magnific Precise in Krea, including default settings and a real 2x result.
How to Enhance Images with Topaz Generative in Krea
A simple guide to enhancing images with Topaz Generative in Krea, using a recent Assets image and a real 2x result.
How to Generate Images With a Style Reference in Krea (5 Steps)
Use a Krea 2 Large style reference to guide the look of a generated image: pick a preset, write your prompt, and generate in 5 steps.
How to Quickly Upscale Images in Krea
Learn how to use Quick Upscale from a Krea Image session.
How to Remove an Image Background in Krea
Learn how to remove an image background in Krea Edit by selecting an asset, right-clicking it, and downloading a clean cutout.
How to Create an API Token in Krea
Learn how to switch to Krea API mode, create an API token, name it, and store it safely after creation.
AI Tools for Generating Lifestyle Product Shots
If you are short on time: Krea 2 inside Krea is the best fit when you want flexible lifestyle product shots, campaign concepts, and editable product scenes in
AI Tools for Creating Product Mockups and Packaging Renders
If you are short on time: Krea 2 is the best fit when you want fast creative directions for product mockups, packaging concepts, and launch visuals. Use a
AI Tools That Generate Floor Plans and Building Concepts
Compare AI floor plan tools for layouts, building concepts, interiors, pricing, and sketch-to-plan workflows, with examples generated in Krea.
Best AI for Generating Photorealistic Architectural Renders
Photorealistic architectural rendering is one of the clearest places where AI can save time, but the phrase can mean a few different things. Sometimes you
Animate Krea 2 illustrations with Seedance 2.0
Turn Krea 2 stills into fluid animations with Seedance 2.0 — all inside a single Krea workflow.
Anime backgrounds with Krea 2
Make anime-style scenic backgrounds with Krea 2 — Shinkai skies, school hallways, train platforms, isekai landscapes for indie creators.
Architectural styles with Krea 2
Render any architectural style in Krea 2 — modernist, brutalist, Japandi, Mediterranean, mass timber, mid-century, postmodern.
Character design with Krea 2
Character design is the foundation of every anime project. Krea 2 is built for this kind of pipeline work.
Interior design with Krea 2
Krea 2 renders interiors with material accuracy that holds up to design-publication scrutiny.
Krea 2 vs NijiJourney for anime
If you make anime art with AI, you are choosing between a handful of models. NijiJourney is the established name. Krea 2 is the new one. This article is an hone
Krea 2 and Nano Banana 2, side by side
In 2026, you can finally stop asking which image model is the best one . The interesting question is which two you should keep open at the same time. Inside Kre
Made with Krea 2 moodboards
A moodboard, in Krea 2, is a way to encode taste into the model. You drop in a curated set of and the system reads the whole set as a single creative direction.
Creators react to Krea 2 LoRAs
First reactions to the Krea 2 LoRA beta — from day-one experiments to a film-work take on consistency.
Concept and massing studies with Krea 2
Massing is the moment in a project when the only thing that matters is form. No materials. No windows. No landscape. Just volumes, in space, in relationship to
From sketch to anime panel with Krea 2
The bottleneck in indie manga and comic work is not the idea. It is not the storyboard. It is finishing — taking a rough panel sketch and turning it into a poli
Krea 2 sketch to render — architecture
The fastest distance between an architect's idea and a client's "yes" is a render. The slowest distance is the days of CAD, material assignment, lighting, and p
Krea 2 vs Lumion, Enscape, D5 Render
If you produce architectural renders, you have probably evaluated Lumion, Enscape, D5 Render, or Twinmotion at some point. These are excellent tools — built spe
Materials and lighting studies with Krea 2
How to use Krea 2 for rapid material and lighting studies — stone, concrete, timber, glass — without re-rendering your entire scene.
Site context renders with Krea 2
The hardest render in architecture is the one with neighbours. A standalone building on a clean lot is easy. The same building between two existing facades, wit
Studio anime aesthetics with Krea 2
Anime is not one look — each studio has its own palette, line weight, and emotional register. See how Krea 2 reproduces Ghibli, Trigger, MAPPA, and more.
Exploratory prompting in Krea 2
Krea 2 rewards curiosity — start vague, see what comes back, and follow the threads you like.
Krea 2 in the wild: community standouts
This week the Krea 2 community pushed the model in three directions — minimal prompts, mood-driven moodboards, and Krea 2 to Seedance 2.0 pipelines.
More early Krea 2 community work
Four more pieces from the Krea 2 community: cowboys via swapped srefs, a Kling 3.0 video loop, painterly portraits, and cinematic seaside frames.
Krea 2 community week 3
Tanzim benchmarks Krea 2, Lloyd Creates explores ethereal moods, and AIdriving pushes style transfer past 80%.
How Architecture Studios Use AI to Render Concepts in Minutes
See how architecture teams use Krea 2 for massing studies, material explorations, and client-ready renders — from sketch to presentation-quality visual in seconds, not hours.
Style references in Krea 2
How S-Refs work in Krea 2 — extracting style from a single image and applying it to any new prompt, with control over strength.
A London noir, shot in Krea 2
Filmmaker VictorInFocus pasted a Seedance video prompt into Krea 2 and got back a contact sheet of cinematic stills. Here's what happened, and the moodboard.
Krea 2 vs Midjourney: which AI image generator is right for you?
How Krea 2 compares to Midjourney in 2026: style control, workflow, feature scope, quality, and pricing.
Krea at Cannes Film Festival
We're heading to Cannes. Our co-founder and CTO Diego Rodriguez will be live on stage at the American Pavilion, building visuals in real time as composer Roahn
Krea 2: First Experiments from the Community
A collection of early creative experiments from the Krea 2 community.
On being the underdog
Our response to Fast Company's "underdog AI model" piece — why taste, not scale, is the moat behind Krea 2.