Krea 2 API. by The Krea Team | May 27, 2026 Krea 2 is its first foundation image model, trained completely from scratch to give users full control over the look, feel, and creative direction of every image they create. Starting today, you can access Krea 2 through its API partners, such as Fal, Comfy, or Runware. Krea.ai, Inc. is also launching with Nous Research, offering access to Hermes since day 0, and you can find support for Claude, OpenClaw, and Codex in its docs. Here's what it brings to the table: * Aesthetic diversity - Krea 2 can generate an incredibly wide range of styles, with particular strength in artistic and expressive directions that other models tend to flatten out. * Style transfer - Krea 2 ships with the most advanced style transfer system available. It can extract the style of one or many reference images and apply it to your outputs with precision. * Creativity - this is an actual parameter you can tune with Krea 2. At high values, it will make the model to add aesthetic depth, interpretation, and visual richness to whatever you give it. * Moodboards - you can pass in an entire moodboard of dozens of images and Krea 2 will understand the overall creative direction, producing outputs that align with it. Find hundreds of examples with their respective prompts clicking the link below: Browse the Krea 2 gallery Hundreds of examples with the prompts that produced them. Krea.ai, Inc. built Krea 2 for creatives who want real control over what AI produces. Krea.ai, Inc. work closely with teams across creative studios, marketing and advertising agencies, fashion, gaming, and architecture - continually taking their feedback back to its research lab to push the model further for every use case. It's a model that's actively evolving with the people who use it. It's also built for exploration. You don't always come in with a fully formed idea, and Krea 2 is designed to be a creative collaborator in those moments - something that can take a loose direction and give you back visuals that spark the next idea, rather than forcing you to specify every detail upfront. Model variants. The Krea 2 API offers two model variants: Krea 2 Medium and Krea 2 Large. Both support the same parameters and feature set - the differences come down to model size, training stage, and the character of the outputs they produce. If you're not sure which to start with, try Krea 2 Medium - it's faster, cheaper, and handles the broadest range of use cases reliably. Krea 2 Medium A smaller, faster, and more cost-efficient model with extensive post-training applied. This makes its outputs especially stable and consistent across generations. Medium is particularly strong on illustration, anime, painting, and other expressive or artistic styles. Krea 2 Large More than twice the size of Medium, with a softer post-training applied - which gives its outputs a rawer, more textured, and flexible character. Large is the more powerful model overall - at its best, it produces results Medium can't match. It handles expressive and artistic styles well, and shines on photorealism and "raw" looks like motion blurs, grains, or low dynamic ranges. Features & examples. Krea.ai, Inc. compiled this list of examples that you can use to test the capabilities of the model. Aesthetic diversity. Most image models handle complex prompts well, but they tend to fall short on style - defaulting to something sharp, polished, and "safe". That narrows the creative range you can actually get out of them. With Krea 2, Krea.ai, Inc. put as much effort into how the model understands style as Krea.ai, Inc. did into how it understands prompts. The result is a model that can render a wide range of aesthetics - expressive, raw, niche, experimental - without falling into AI looks. The following are a set of examples created with Krea 2 showcasing a variety of aesthetics: "Close-up portrait of a woman, retro 90s anime style, large vivid blue eyes, flushed cheeks, glossy red lips, silver glitter around her eyes, single brown curl on the nose, wearing a glossy black metallic helmet with rivets, bold blue reflections, dark background, heavy film grain, saturated colors, sharp specular highlights" Model: Krea 2 Large Style transfer. Krea 2 ships with the most powerful style transfer system on the market. Pass in a single reference image or combine several, and Krea 2 will extract the style and apply it to your output - letting you decide how strongly each reference shapes the final image. The following were generated using style references: "portrait of a penguin" Style reference · strength 70% · Krea 2 Large Creativity. Creativity is an actual parameter that you can tune for Krea 2. When a prompt is short or vague, the model can fill in the missing pieces - style, composition, camera angle, color palette - adding visual depth where you haven't specified it. The creativity parameter controls how far that expansion goes. Set it to high and the expansion gets stronger - the model takes more creative liberty with style, mood, and aesthetics. Set it to low and the model sticks more closely to what's in your prompt. Set it to raw and the model performs no expansion at all, rendering only what you've explicitly described. The following examples were created with creativity set to medium: "retro supercar" Model: Krea 2 Large Moodboards. A moodboard is the most precise way to set a visual direction with Krea 2. Moodboards are built from a group of images that share an overall creative direction - palette, texture, style, mood, or composition. You can create one in Krea and reference it when you run inference through this API. The following examples show how activating a moodboard can transform the output of even very simple prompts. "a surprised bunny" Model: Krea 2 Large API setup. Create an API token from your Krea account settings. Krea 2 has two versions of the model available in the API: Endpoints. Krea 2 Medium Krea 2 Large Parameters. Both versions of Krea 2 support the following parameters. | Parameter | Type | Notes | | prompt | string | Required text prompt | | aspect\_ratio | string | 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 2.35:1, 4:5, 2:3, 9:16 | | resolution | string | Currently just 1K | | seed | number | Optional seed | | creativity | enum | raw, low, medium, high | | image\_style\_references | array | Optional style references | | moodboards | array | Optional moodboards, currently max 1 | | styles (coming soon) | array | Optional trained styles (LoRAs) | Fetch completed jobs. Completed jobs can be fetched from: https://api.krea.ai/jobs/{job_id}. You can also pass an X-Webhook-URL header to receive a POST when the job completes. More detailed API docs are available at https://docs.krea.ai/developers/introduction. It covers things like the job lifecycle, webhook integrations, generating api tokens, etc. API examples. Below you can find a set of short guides that will show you how to use all the different features that come with Krea 2: Generate an image. Use style transfer. Adjust creative thinking. Use creativity to control how literally Krea 2 follows the prompt. * raw: raw prompt * low: close to the prompt * medium: balanced, default * high: more expressive interpretation Use moodboards. After you've created a moodboard in the krea webapp, you can use it in the api: Pricing. | Model type | Text-to-image | Style references | Moodboards | | Medium | \$0.030 | \$0.035 | \$0.040 | | Large | \$0.060 | \$0.065 | \$0.070 | Note: combining moodboards with style references will not increase the price per generation, i.e., it will be $0.04 for Medium and $0.07 for Large.

Krea 2 abandons photorealism in favor of pure stylized generation. Krea AI opens free access to Krea 2, its new aesthetic-first image model. Test style references, cinematic art, and moodboards today with zero risks! May 19, 2026 - 10:14 Developers have opened free public access to their first foundation model. It places maximum emphasis on style, a cinematic feel, and moodboards, but leaves many questions regarding consistency and photorealism. A week ago, on May 12, 2026, the startup Krea AI loudly announced the release of Krea 2. This is its first base model for image generation, built from scratch with about $20 million invested in its development. Today, the company took the next step by opening free access to the neural network for everyone. This is a great opportunity to visit the platform and test its capabilities on your own tasks, although the initial impressions from the community are quite mixed. Key features and what makes Krea 2 interesting. Instead of competing in versatility, the developers chose a different path. Krea 2 is positioned as an aesthetic first model. It is optimized for creating illustrations, posters, stylized graphics, and anime, rather than perfect photorealism. Style references and moodboards are the main weapon of the new model. You can drop in a single reference image or put together an entire moodboard of up to 12 images, and the neural network will generate the result in that exact style. The logic is very close to the sref parameter in Midjourney. The model analyzes the color palette, lighting, and composition, transferring this vibe to new generations. The model truly delivers excellent results in artistic directions. If you need a film effect, grain, a vintage look, or a complex illustration, Krea 2 handles it perfectly. On top of that, the generation speed is quite fast, taking about 25 seconds to create one frame, which is comfortable for steady work. The flip side of the coin and what concerns users. Despite the loud claims on the landing page, real world tests reveal a number of significant flaws that make people doubt the feasibility of using the model for serious product tasks. There is a big myth about variability. On the official website, Krea directly compares itself to Nano Banana, claiming that the competitor produces 4 almost identical frames for a simple prompt, while Krea 2 offers 4 completely different concepts. In practice, users note that this is just a marketing trick, and the actual variability does not match what was promised. The model is also frankly weak in photorealism. For product photo presets, it is much better to use Seedream or the mentioned Nano Banana. Moreover, object coherence in the frame leaves much to be desired, meaning elements often do not blend logically. Functional gaps are another big issue. Although almost a year has passed since the release of Krea 1, it is still unclear how to work with character consistency in the new version, and it is unknown whether there will be full support for image to image generation based on this same model. Finally, the built in safety filters are configured extremely strictly, which can significantly limit creative freedom. Final verdict. Abandoning photorealism in favor of stylized graphics is often an indicator of a downgrade in the model itself, which they try to cover up with beautiful words about aesthetics. However, free access with a limit of 3 generations per day is a perfect chance to test everything yourself without any financial risks. If your focus is stylized art, moodboards, and finding visual inspiration, Krea 2 is definitely worth your attention. For precise product photography, you will have to look for other tools.