Krea AI vs Picsart AI Image Generator

In short

• Both: Text to image, Edits images, Upscales, Style or character reference, Text in images, API, Mobile app
• Only Krea AI states: Image to video
• Only Picsart AI Image Generator states: Commercial use

Krea AI

Krea is a web-based creative suite for generating, editing, enhancing, and animating images and video with AI models.

Plans

Free

Free

• 100 units /day
• No credit card required
• Full access to real-time models
• Limited LoRA training (50 images)
• Limited image upscaling
• Early access to new features

Pro

• $21/month
• $35/month

• 20,000 units /month
• All image models
• All video models
• LoRA training (50 images)
• Image upscaling up to 22K
• Commercial license

Max

• $63/month
• $105/month

• 60,000 units /month
• All image models
• All video models
• Unlimited LoRA training (2,000 images)
• Image upscaling up to 22K
• Commercial license

Business

• $160/month
• $200/month

• 80k units /month
• Up to 50 seats included
• Business Terms of Service
• Share private Node Apps with your workspace
• Custom user roles and permissions
• Priority support with SLA

Enterprise

Price on request

• Custom seat count
• Share private Node Apps with your workspace
• Custom user roles and permissions
• SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Priority support with SLA
• Custom compute packages

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Text to image — “Generate product shots, marketing assets, and editorial photography from a single API call.” source
• Edits images — “Attach up to 3 reference images to edit instead of generate.” source
• Upscales — “Take any image up to 22K resolution with Topaz-powered AI enhancement.” source
• Style or character reference — “Use them in subsequent generation requests to keep output on-brand without manual work.” source
• Image to video — “Turn text or images into video with models like Veo 3, Kling, and Wan 2.5.” source
• Text in images — “Some models are faster, some are more photorealistic, and some handle text in images better.” source
• API — “40+ image and video models, one REST API.” source
• Mobile app — “Download iOS” source

Security

• SOC 2 — “Krea is SOC 2 compliant: an independent audit firm has examined our controls against the SOC 2 framework” source

Latest updates

• 2026-09-16 Organizations opens to everyone, plus workspace capture, tags, member usage limits, and org-wide Usage reporting

  Organizations are no longer sales-gated; capture workspaces, organize them with tags, set member usage limits, and view org-wide Usage reporting.

• 2026-09-10 Krea Agent is open on every plan, with launch-week free credits

  Krea Agent is now available to everyone, including Free; every plan gets the context library, skills and integrations.

• 2026-09-09 Elements in Seedance Studio, GPT Image 2.5 models, MiniMax H3 Max Turbo with native 1080p, postpaid invoicing, and Kling retirements

  Elements save characters, locations, and objects; GPT Image 2.5 models are available through the API; MiniMax H3 Max Turbo adds native 1080p.

Picsart AI Image Generator

Picsart AI Image Generator creates images from text prompts, styles, and reference images, then lets users edit or export them in Picsart.

Plans

Pro

• $10.5/mo billed yearly
• $15/mo billed monthly

• Access to all photo & video editing features
• Advanced background & object removal
• Unlimited image generations with Flex.2 Klein
• Thousands of premium templates
• 100 GB of cloud storage
• 15+ creative AI agents

Ultra

• $60/mo billed yearly, per seat
• $75/mo billed monthly, per seat

• 140+ leading AI video, image, and audio models
• Early access to advanced AI features
• Option to buy add-on credits that never expire
• Create ad variations & localize
• Add team seats
• 300 GB of cloud storage per seat

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Text to image — “Type a text prompt, pick from 100 presets, or upload a reference image to guide your generation.” source
• Edits images — “Swap backgrounds with AI Background , replace specific elements using AI Replace , sharpen details with AI Image Enhancer , or make full adjustments in the AI Photo Editor.” source
• Upscales — “Unpixelate Image” source
• Style or character reference — “Guide your generation with an existing visual for consistent style and direction.” source
• Text in images — “Want readable text placed directly inside an image? Ideogram V3 is built for it.” source
• Commercial use — “Many AI generated images can be used for personal projects, social media, and commercial purposes.” source
• API — “Prepaid or pay-as-you-go creative APIs” source
• Mobile app — “Access projects on mobile app and on web platform” source

Latest updates

• 2026-09-24 Draft mode for Seedance 2.5: preview in 480p, deliver in 1080p (Seedance 2.5)

  Draft mode for Seedance 2.5 adds 480p previews before rendering a selected take in 1080p.

• 2026-09-24 Creatify Boreal: AI video with sound, cut to the second

  Creatify Boreal is available in Picsart AI Playground for text-to-video with sound, durations from 1 to 20 seconds, and resolutions up to 2K.

• 2026-09-23 Picsart is now a connected app in Google Gemini

  Picsart is now a connected app in Google Gemini, bringing 190+ AI models and creative tools into Gemini chats.