Krea prices Krea 3 edits at six cents
Krea is pitching its Krea 3 image-editing model on cost and speed, charging $0.06 per 2K image with most edits returning in under eight seconds, to make catalog-scale editing affordable.
As we reported at launch, Krea has released Krea 3, its new image-editing model. The company's launch post explains how it is positioning the model. Krea argues that the best editing models have become slower and more expensive, at roughly a minute and $0.25 per edit, which makes them hard to justify for whole catalogs or quick iteration.
Krea says most Krea 3 edits finish end to end in under 8 seconds at native 2K. Pricing is $0.06 per image at 2K and $0.03 at 1K. Each edit accepts up to six reference images. The company says the model keeps the parts of an image it wasn't asked to change, such as product labels and logos, and keeps people and characters consistent across images. Krea says Krea 3 also inherits Krea 2's handling of painting, vector and ink styles.
The model is available on krea.ai, which Krea says has 30 million users, and through the Krea API. It is also served by fal, Hedra, Together AI, Nous Research, OpenRouter and Replicate. Krea says Pixelcut tested early versions with its users. The post also gives prompting advice: say what should stay the same, describe the change in photographic terms, assign a role to each reference image, and use "only" for targeted edits.
Krea also lists limits and next steps. Krea 3 isn't real-time yet, and its fastest setup takes about 4 to 5 seconds per edit. Krea called training at 2K one of the biggest wins of this cycle. Next it plans to look at cheaper architectures for high resolution and at instructions given by circling parts of an image or writing on it. The post doesn't give a timeline or publish benchmark figures.