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Krea AI vs Recraft
Krea AI or Recraft? 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, Style or character reference, Image to video, Text in images, API, Mobile app
- Only Recraft states: Commercial use, Private generation
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.
Recraft
Recraft generates and edits images, vectors, mockups, illustrations, icons, and video for design and marketing work.
Plans
Free
Free
- Limited credits for trying core functionality
- Image and vector generation tools
- Basic editing features
- Upload up to 3 images per day
- Up to 2 images per prompt
- Generated images are public
Basic
- $12 per month (billed monthly) for 1,000 credits
- $10 per month (billed annually, $120 per year) for 1,000 credits
- 1,000 credits per month
- Private image generation
- Commercial usage rights
- Top-up credits available
Pro
- 2000 credits — $20 per month (monthly)
- 2000 credits — $16 per month (billed annually)
- 4,000 credits — $40 per month (monthly)
- 4,000 credits — $32 per month (billed annually)
- 8,000 credits — $80 per month (monthly)
- 8,000 credits — $64 per month (billed annually)
- 16000 credits — $160 per month (monthly)
- 16000 credits — $128 per month (billed annually)
- Monthly credit allowance (tiers from 2,000)
- Private image generation
- Commercial usage rights
- Top-up credits available
- Access to all core tools
Teams
- 2000 credits — $22 per month (monthly)
- 2000 credits — $18 per month (billed annually)
- 4,000 credits — $44 per month (monthly)
- 4,000 credits — $35 per month (billed annually)
- 8,000 credits — $70 per month (monthly)
- 8,000 credits — $88 per month (billed annually)
- 16000 credits — $176 per month (monthly)
- 16000 credits — $141 per month (billed annually)
- Shared custom styles
- Centralized account management
- Premium 24/7 support
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Top-up credits shared across seats
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Capabilities
- Text to image — “Recraft is an AI tool for professional designers, illustrators, and marketers. It lets creators easily generate and iterate original images, vector art, illustrations, icons, and 3D graphics with AI.” source
- Edits images — “The creator’s platform for generating and editing images, vectors, and mockups with Recraft’s models and other top frontier models” source
- Upscales — “Image upscaler” source
- Style or character reference — “Recraft instantly turns them into a reusable, editable style.” source
- Image to video — “Feed it text, up to five reference photos, audio, or existing video footage and it generates new video from any combination of those inputs.” source
- Text in images — “Among Recraft's core strengths is its exceptional image generation quality, including generation images with text of any size and length.” source
- Commercial use — “Paid plans grant you full ownership and commercial rights for all images generated while subscribed.” source
- Private generation — “Images remain private and are not shown in the community gallery.” source
- API — “Yes. The Recraft API provides programmatic access to image and vector generation, editing, background removal, inpainting, outpainting, batch jobs, and asynchronous processing.” source
- Mobile app — “Android App iOS App” source
Latest updates
- V4.1 Flash: The Fastest Model on the Market
Generates images in 1.3 seconds end to end and adds a Refine button.
- New Model: ChatGPT Images 2.5
Available in Recraft Studio for image generation and editing, with 50% lower latency than its predecessor.
- V4 Styles
Choose a style from the library or a reference; generated images hold true to it, with no training needed.