Krea

About Krea

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Krea

All products by Krea reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

KreaAI Creative Tools

100+ AI image and video models in one browser-based creative platform

From $7/mo8.0/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Krea

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Krea's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.4 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Krea competes with, and how they differ.

Midjourney5.9/10

Midjourney runs a closed, Discord/web-only ecosystem prized for polished, painterly default outputs and does not plug into Krea's multi-model aggregator, whereas Krea competes on a real-time generation canvas and access to 60+ third-party models.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Runway7.3/10

Runway is a dedicated AI video platform (Gen-4.5) with deeper editing and motion-consistency tools than Krea's video features, which remain secondary to Krea's image-first, aggregator-model canvas.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Luma AI7.8/10

Luma AI builds its own proprietary video (Dream Machine) and 3D-capture models rather than aggregating third-party ones, competing directly with Krea's video and 3D tools for the same full-stack creative-suite positioning.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Magnific8.0/10

Magnific, now part of Freepik, focuses narrowly on photorealistic AI upscaling and enhancement backed by a 250M+ stock-asset library, competing with Krea's enhancer for the same aesthetic-upscale use case.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

ComfyUI (Comfy Org)8.2/10

ComfyUI is a free, open-source, node-based workflow builder for technical users who self-host generative pipelines, competing with Krea's polished no-code subscription canvas for access to the same underlying diffusion models.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Meshy7.6/10

Meshy is a dedicated text-to-3D and image-to-3D generation platform, competing directly with Krea's newer 3D asset tools rather than its core image/video canvas.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Krea's history, with sources.

1. May 12, 2026Launch

   Krea 2 foundation image model launches

   Krea shipped Krea 2, its first foundation image model built completely from scratch (a 12B-parameter Diffusion Transformer), marking a strategic pivot from model aggregator to model owner.

   krea.ai
2. Oct 15, 2025Launch

   Krea Realtime 14B open-sourced

   Krea released Krea Realtime 14B, a 14-billion-parameter autoregressive model for real-time, long-form AI video generation, open-sourced on GitHub and Hugging Face.

   krea.ai
3. Jul 31, 2025Partnership

   FLUX.1 Krea [dev] released with Black Forest Labs

   Krea and Black Forest Labs jointly released FLUX.1 Krea [dev], an open-weights text-to-image model distilled from Krea 1 focused on photorealism, rapidly adopted across ComfyUI, Replicate, fal, and other inference platforms.

   krea.ai
4. Jun 18, 2025Launch

   Krea 1 image model launches on Product Hunt

   Krea 1, the company's first proprietary image generation model built to avoid the generic "AI look," launched on Product Hunt and finished as the #2 Product of the Day with 450 upvotes.

   producthunt.com
5. Apr 7, 2025Funding

   Series B — $47M led by Bain Capital Ventures at $500M valuation

   Krea raised a $47M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, with Andreessen Horowitz and Abstract Ventures returning, bringing total funding to $83M at a roughly $500M post-money valuation; the company disclosed 20M+ users and rapid revenue growth publicly for the first time.

   techcrunch.com
6. May 9, 2024Launch

   Launched AI video generation for paid subscribers

   Krea introduced a video generation tool for its top "Max" tier ($60/month) subscribers, combining keyframe images and text prompts on a timeline-style interface.

   venturebeat.com
7. June 2023Funding

   Series A — $33M led by Andreessen Horowitz

   Krea closed a $33M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Abstract Ventures also participating.

   research.contrary.com
8. 2023Funding

   Seed round — $3M led by Pebblebed

   Krea raised a $3M seed round led by Pebblebed, the fund co-founded by Meta AI's Keith Adams and OpenAI's Pamela Vagata, funding development of its core generative image tools.

   techcrunch.com
9. June 2022Funding

   Pre-seed round

   Krea raised an undisclosed pre-seed round shortly after founding, funding early product prototyping during the HF0 startup residency.

   research.contrary.com
10. March 2022Founded

    Founded by Victor Perez and Diego Rodriguez

    Krea was founded in San Francisco by CEO Victor Perez and CTO Diego Rodriguez, who met as engineering students in Barcelona, through the HF0 startup residency program.

    techcrunch.com