Krea AI Pricing for Krea 3 API and App Plans

As of October 2026, Krea AI pricing has two tracks: pay per image on the Krea Application Programming Interface (API), or pay monthly for a krea.ai app plan. App plans give you compute units, which Krea converts into an approximate number of Krea 3 images.

Krea 3, released October 15, 2026, is Krea's image editing model, and Krea says it spends compute only on the region you change. Which track costs less depends on how many images you edit a month, at what resolution, and how many seats your team needs.

Krea 3 Price at a Glance

Krea 3 costs $0.06 per 2K edit ($0.03 at 1K) on the Krea API. In the krea.ai app, the Free plan gives about 5 Krea 3 images a day, and paid plans run $9 to $200 a month as of October 2026.

On app plans, Krea measures usage in compute units. Krea's pricing page lists an approximate Krea 3 Beta image count beside each unit total. Business shows about 1,111 images, the same as Pro, despite four times Pro's compute units. The page does not explain the gap, so check the Krea pricing page before you choose Business for image volume.

Krea's pricing page advertises "Save 40%" on yearly billing, which matches Pro and Max, but Business works out to 20 percent off ($160 against $200). For Basic, the page lists $5 a month billed yearly in one place and $5.25 in its comparison table, so budget $5.25 to be safe.

API vs App Plan: Which Krea AI Pricing Option Is Cheaper

For 2K edits at steady volume, Pro costs less than the API. At 1K, the API stays cheaper.

The Pro subscription costs $35 per month and yields approximately 1,111 Krea 3 Beta images. The same 1,111 images on the API at $0.06 per 2K image cost $66.66 (1,111 × $0.06). If Krea's approximate image count holds, Pro is $31.66 cheaper ($66.66 minus $35). The break-even is about 583 2K edits a month, since 583 × $0.06 is $34.98.

On the 1K API, the same 1,111 images at $0.03 each total $33.33, slightly less than the $35 Pro fee. On the $9 Basic plan, users receive 5,000 compute units, which Krea estimates as 277 images. On the API, 277 images cost $16.62 at 2K and $8.31 at 1K, so Basic costs less than the API for 2K edits but not for 1K.

Compute units in app plans are shared with other models in the Krea app, so images made with other models reduce the Krea 3 count. The image estimates published by Krea serve as approximations rather than guaranteed allowances.

Is Krea Free?

The Krea Free plan grants 100 compute units daily, which produces about five Krea 3 edits per day.

Free accounts run one image at a time, so each edit has to finish before the next one starts. Upscaling on Free stops at 2K, the same resolution Krea 3 outputs natively.

Krea's pricing page is unclear on commercial use for Free accounts. The Free plan's feature list shows a commercial license, but the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Krea pricing page names only paid plans as licensed for "marketing, advertising, products, and client work." Check the Krea pricing page before you put Free outputs into client work.

User reports on Hacker News are unverified. One user said the signup trial stopped after one round of three images. Some users saw noisy texture or dithering, and one designer's background-removal test changed faces. Run a few test edits on the Free plan before you pay for a plan.

Krea 3 vs Nano Banana Pro vs GPT Image 2: Cost and Speed

Krea reports that Krea 3 processes 2K image edits faster and at lower per-image rates than rival models.

All speed and cost comparison figures originate from Krea's own marketing benchmarks rather than third-party laboratory evaluations. In its launch post, Krea measures median latency from September 24 to October 1, 2026, including queue times, showing Krea 3 finishing under 8 seconds. On the Krea 3 product page, Krea gives different rival timings: Nano Banana Pro at 26.8 seconds and GPT Image 2.5 at 39.9 seconds. Both rival timings are the median of a 12-image batch, queue included, and Krea 3 appears on the product page at an "illustrative" 8 seconds. For Google's own pricing context, see the Nano Banana 2.1 API pricing guide.

Krea labels its GPT Image 2.5 pricing as a draft estimate pending validation. Lower prices and faster published latencies do not demonstrate superior image generation quality. Krea's launch post names no benchmark score, and Krea co-founder Diego Rodriguez wrote on Hacker News that benchmarks are still being worked on, with a technical report promised. No independent quality test of Krea 3 has been published yet. Glitchwire reports a 4.81 out of 5 score on CPI-Bench in an "Ultra" tier, second behind GPT Image 2.5. That score is a press report and does not appear on Krea's launch post.

What Each Plan Adds Beyond Images

Business and Enterprise plans add team controls, contract terms and compute rollovers on top of the image allowance.

The Business plan costs $200 per month, or $160 monthly billed annually, and includes up to 50 user seats. Business also adds a shared team workspace, model access controls and per-member spend limits, so you can control which models each member uses and cap what each member spends. The Business Terms of Service carry data protection and no-training clauses, so Krea commits in writing to protect your team's data and not train on it. Unused Business compute units carry over into the next billing cycle.

Enterprise adds custom quotas and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Single Sign-On (SSO), so staff sign in to Krea through your company's own login system. Enterprise also includes Service Level Agreement (SLA) support, so support terms are set in a contract. Enterprise's Intellectual Property (IP) indemnification applies "when usage follows the agreement terms," so Krea carries covered IP claims while you follow those terms. Krea's FAQ says Enterprise customers can self-host Krea 3 on their own graphics processing units (GPUs) in their own cloud. Enterprise accounts also roll over unused units, while Basic, Pro and Max units do not.

Krea sells one-time compute packs valid for 90 days, but their prices are not shown on the Krea pricing page. The pricing page also lists a launch promotion of "Unlimited Fast generations at 1K and 2K for 14 days with a qualifying Pro or Max annual purchase." Basic is not included, and no end date is shown.

Will Krea AI Pricing Change

Krea projects that API editing prices will decline over time.

Krea's Krea 3 FAQ says the $0.06 per 2K edit launch price is the list price and is not subsidized: "We expect it to go down, not up." For volume pricing, the same FAQ says to evaluate your workload with Krea's team.

On Hacker News, Krea co-founder Diego Rodriguez wrote that the team is thinking about letting users fine-tune Krea 3 with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) and about open weights, with no commitment. In June 2026, Krea released open weights for its earlier text-to-image models, Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo, on Hugging Face, as covered by VentureBeat. However, Krea 3 weights remain closed as of October 2026.

How to Cancel a Krea AI Subscription

Cancel a Krea subscription from your Krea account settings, or contact Krea support.

Krea does not publish cancel steps or menu names on its pricing page.

Compute units on Basic, Pro and Max plans do not roll over, so use your remaining units and time the cancellation to the end of your billing cycle.

Is Krea 3 Worth Paying For

Krea 3 is worth paying for on the API if you edit through code, and on a krea.ai app plan if you edit in the app at steady volume.

The Krea API at $0.06 per 2K edit suits developers with irregular volume, because you pay only for the images you make. Pro at $35 a month suits steady app use above about 583 2K edits a month, the point where 583 × $0.06 reaches about $35. Stay on Free if about 5 Krea 3 images a day covers your work, but confirm the commercial terms on the Krea pricing page first. Business at $200 a month fits teams that need up to 50 seats, per-member spend limits and no-training terms. Krea lists Business at about 1,111 Krea 3 images a month, the same as Pro.

Krea 3 does not fit teams that want open weights, because Krea has not released them. Only Enterprise plans can run Krea 3 on your own GPUs. Teams that need an independent quality ranking should wait for one. This advice would change if Krea cuts its list price, publishes compute pack prices, or releases LoRA training for Krea 3.

Before you subscribe, read Krea 3 explained and the Krea 3 vs Krea 2 comparison. Then check current Krea AI pricing on Krea's pricing page and pick the plan that matches your monthly edit count.