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Krea Launches Krea 3 for Sub-Eight-Second Image Edits
Krea says its new Krea 3 image-editing model completes most native 2K edits in under eight seconds for $0.06 per image. The company says the model preserves products and characters across edits and is available through Krea and several part
AI.info Team · Written with AI ·
Most edits in Krea 3 take under eight seconds at native 2K resolution, Krea says, and cost six cents apiece. The company launched the image-editing model on October 12 and published a fuller announcement on October 15, pitching speed and control for teams that make product images, campaign variants and other production assets.
Krea says the model can change a scene while preserving a product’s label or logo, and keep a person or character consistent across images. Each edit can use up to six reference images. The model is available on Krea and through fal, Hedra, Together AI, Nous Research, OpenRouter and Replicate, according to the company’s announcement.
Krea’s benchmark puts edits below eight seconds
Krea compares Krea 3 with Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2 using edit jobs run on Krea between September 24 and October 1, 2026. The company reports median request-to-finished-image times of 33 seconds for Nano Banana Pro and 90 seconds for GPT Image 2, with queue time included; Krea 3’s edits took under eight seconds. Those figures are Krea’s own measurements, not an independent benchmark.
The same comparison lists per-image prices of $0.06 for Krea 3 at 2K, $0.135 for Nano Banana Pro and $0.22 for GPT Image 2. Krea says 100,000 edits at those list prices would cost $6,000, $13,500 and $22,000, respectively. Its volume estimate specifies Krea 3 at 2K and excludes image references, so actual costs may differ when teams use references or other pricing terms.
“Editing models are already used across e-commerce, film and advertising, but most of their potential is still held back by speed. Krea 3 removes the tradeoff between speed and quality, delivering high-quality edits in under 8 seconds, end-to-end, at 2K native resolution.”
Víctor Perez, co-founder and CEO of Krea
Preserving the parts a team has approved
Krea’s pitch centers on selective changes: replace furniture while retaining a room’s other details, or place a product in a new setting without changing its packaging. The company’s examples include applying a label design to a rendered bottle and keeping the same characters across different scenes. For commerce and advertising teams, that kind of consistency could reduce the need to rebuild an image when one element changes.
Krea also says Krea 3 can work from sketches, line drawings and color palettes, generating finished images while following specified materials and lighting. In its announcement, the company describes uses such as turning product snapshots into studio-style images, adapting ads to new formats and previewing building materials. Those are product claims and demonstrations from Krea, rather than results from an outside evaluation.
The model is fast, but not real-time
Krea says its fastest setup can finish an edit in about four to five seconds, but the model is not real-time. The company identifies higher-resolution output at lower compute cost and additional ways to direct edits—such as circling an area or writing instructions on the image—as areas it is still developing.
The launch page lists a price of $0.03 per image at 1K resolution and $0.06 at 2K. Whether the speed and preservation claims hold across varied source images and repeated edits is the practical question for production teams weighing the model against their existing workflows.