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Krea AI vs Playground
Krea AI or Playground? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Text to image, Edits images, Upscales, Text in images, API, Mobile app
- Only Krea AI states: Style or character reference, Image to video
- Only Playground 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Playground
Playground is an AI graphic design tool for generating, editing, and exporting designs from prompts and templates.
Plans
Free
Free
- For exploring and casual creation
- Create up to 10 images every 3 hours
- 3 monthly generations across Muse Image, Nano Banana, GPT Image 2, GPT Image 2.5, and Seedream
- World-wide, royalty free license
- Slower generation during peak hours
- Waiting period after limits are reached
Pro
- $12 /mo
- $144 will be charged in total annually
- $15 / month
- Create up to 75 images every 3 hours
- 150 monthly credits across listed models
- Unlimited access to the full premium template library
- Upscaling and background removal included
- AI image editing up to 2K
- World-wide, royalty free license
Pro Plus
- $36 /mo
- $432 will be charged in total annually
- $45 / month
- Unlimited image generations
- 1,000 monthly credits across all models including Nano Banana Pro
- Unlimited access to the full premium template library
- Unlimited upscaling and background removal
- AI image editing up to 4K
- Exclusive shopping discounts, Priority support & API access
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Text to image — “Seriously, just describe what you're imagining. Our AI fills in everything else.” source
- Edits images — “Remove object” source
- Upscales — “Upscaling and background removal included” source
- Text in images — “The wordsmith. Crisp headlines, legible body copy, and layouts that feel designed, not generated.” source
- Commercial use — “You can use them for personal or commercial use (YouTube, Etsy, Instagram, etc.), as long as you follow our terms .” source
- API — “Fill out this form to request API access.” source
- Mobile app — “Download on the App Store” source