Krea AI¶

Development line: project:krea-ai · thread krea-ai-creative-workflows
Last event: 2025-04-30 · 4 dated since 2024-05-23 · Researched: 2026-09-04 · confidence: medium

What it is¶

Krea AI is a browser workspace for image, video and 3D work across generation, targeted editing, enhancement, animation and LoRA training.

Abilities: - Generation: creates images from prompts and reference images across Krea and third-party models. - Editing and animation: modifies regions, animates stills and upscales outputs. - Training: builds reusable styles, characters or products with LoRA. - Krea 2 controls: manages in-house style-reference, moodboards and creative direction.

Free access provides 100 compute units per day, with limited video, 3D, upscaling and LoRA access; paid generations include commercial licensing. We use it as a multi-model iteration surface and Krea 2 style-control route, not as a single fixed model or an unlimited free tool.

Development line¶

• 2024-05-23 — Krea AI Video v1 route was referenced. On 2024-05-23, the dated source linked to Krea AI’s Video v1 route. This establishes that Video v1 was referenced for Krea AI by that date. The evidence leaves its exact features, launch status and availability unverified.
• 2024-11-08 — Krea AI training route was referenced. On 2024-11-08, the dated source linked to Krea AI’s training route. This establishes that a training workflow was referenced for Krea AI by that date. The accompanying CG Event link provides no further verifiable product detail.
• 2024-12-13 — Krea AI editing route was referenced. On 2024-12-13, the dated source linked to Krea AI’s edit route. This establishes that an editing workflow was referenced for Krea AI by that date. The evidence leaves its exact operations, release status and availability unconfirmed.
• 2025-04-30 — Krea AI enhancement route was referenced. On 2025-04-30, the dated source linked to Krea AI’s enhancer route. This establishes that an enhancement workflow was referenced for Krea AI by that date. The evidence leaves the exact enhancement method, quality claims and availability unconfirmed.

What changed¶

• 2024-04-09 — A Krea home-page entry is recorded, but no dated release detail survives to establish a discrete product change.
• 2024-05-23 — Krea Video Open Beta opened to everyone, adding timeline-based animation with keyframes and image/text prompts.
• 2024-11-08 — Krea began rolling out Train for custom character, style and product models.
• 2024-12-13 — Krea Editor entered free open beta, shifting the product from generation-only toward targeted image intervention.
• 2024-12-19 — Custom trainings arrived inside Krea Editor for learned product placement in images.
• 2025-04-29 — Krea Stage added GPT-4o rendering for alternate views of a controlled 3D scene.
• 2025-04-30 — Krea Enhancer added a new enhancement model and Topaz integration, raising the advertised upscale ceiling to 22K.

How to use this¶

As of 2025-04-30, we assess Krea AI as separate video, training, editing, and enhancement workflows, selecting the named route for the task rather than relying on the homepage alone.

1. Open Image, write a prompt with subject, composition, style and lighting or upload reference images; choose a model and aspect ratio, then compare variations. — https://www.krea.ai/features/ai-image-generator
2. For Krea 2, use style references or a moodboard to guide visual direction and control how strongly references affect the result. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-api-launch
3. Use Krea 2 Turbo to explore prompts, references and moodboards quickly; move the selected direction to Medium or Large when exact style adherence or final polish matters. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-turbo
4. For a reusable style, character or product, open Train, create a LoRA from at least three related images, review captions, then select the finished LoRA in Image. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-lora-training
5. Open Edit from a generated image or upload one, select only the region to change with a rectangle, brush or object selection, describe the edit, and iterate from the history strip. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-edit
6. For final delivery, upload the chosen image to Enhancer, run Enhance, inspect the result, and download the output. — https://www.krea.ai/enhancer
7. To animate a still, open a generated or uploaded image in Video and set motion and camera direction with the selected image-to-video model. — https://www.krea.ai/features/ai-image-generator

Best practices¶

• Keep a LoRA dataset focused. For a character, vary angle, expression, lighting and background; for a style, keep the visual language consistent without repeating one composition. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-lora-training
• Review auto-captions and explicitly name details that must not be learned; start with one character, one style or one product identity rather than mixing concepts. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-lora-training
• Use Turbo for rapid branching and Medium or Large for finals; Turbo preserves the controls but is not the recommended choice for maximum final-image fidelity. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-turbo
• Keep the prompt fixed while changing one Generative Slider at a time. Use Raw or Low creativity for precise prompts, and Medium or High only when deliberate interpretation is wanted. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/generative-sliders
• Edit the smallest necessary region and preserve the rest of the frame; use the edit history rather than regenerating the whole image after each revision. — https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-edit
• For local Krea 2 work, train LoRAs on Raw and run them on Turbo; use Raw for fine-tuning or research rather than as the default final-inference checkpoint. — https://www.krea.ai/krea-2-open-source
• Compare outputs across models when readable text or strict instruction following matters, because text accuracy and adherence vary by model. — https://www.krea.ai/features/ai-image-generator

Superseded by this¶

• 2026-03-09 — The 2024 Krea Editor open-beta workflow is historical; current Krea Edit is a rebuilt regional editor with object moves, relighting, camera/lens controls and revision history.
• 2026-05-28 — The initial 2026-05-21 Krea 2 LoRA Max/Business beta restriction was followed by a changelog announcement of broader availability; actual entitlement still follows account and plan limits.
• 2026-06-23 — Hosted-only Krea 2 guidance is obsolete: Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo weights are available alongside hosted Image-tool and API routes.
• 2026-08-28 — Veo 2 and Veo 3 were sunset from Krea’s Video tool and API; Veo 3.1 or Veo 3.1 Lite are the stated replacements.

Still unknown¶

• The 2024-04-09 home-page mention has no recoverable, dated Krea release note, so no product release is asserted for that date.
• Several 2024 details are reconstructed from contemporaneous reports quoting Krea posts because old Krea app URLs now redirect or do not expose historical release content.
• Krea 2 LoRA availability is time- and plan-dependent: the May 21 blog says Max/Business beta, the May 28 changelog says broader access, and current pricing only confirms limited free-tier LoRA access.
• No first-party Chinese-language release-note archive was found in the searched routes; Chinese-language sources were not used to date the chronology.

Sources¶

Agent brief¶

• Subject: project:krea-ai, thread krea-ai-creative-workflows, 4 dated events 2024-05-23 → 2025-04-30.
• Practical note: As of 2025-04-30, practitioners should assess Krea AI as a set of separately surfaced video, training, editing, and enhancement workflows, selecting the named route for the task rather than relying on the homepage alone.
• Confidence: medium. Dated supersedes above are the authority for what is obsolete.