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Krea 3: Image Editing at Native 2K in Seconds

An image editing model released 15 October 2026 that Krea says returns most edits in under 8 seconds at native 2K for $0.06 an image — and leaves alone what you did not ask it to touch, keeping product labels sharp while the scene changes

Official Source

Summarised from Krea's launch post of 15 October 2026; comparison timings are vendor-measured.

Features

  • ✓ Speed is the pitch: most edits finish end to end in under 8 seconds at native 2K, at $0.06 per 2K image
  • ✓ Regional edits change only the region you point at — swap the sofa, chairs and table, and the rug, the view and the person reading in the corner stay put
  • ✓ Product consistency: a white-background packshot becomes a campaign scene without the label or logo drifting
  • ✓ Up to 6 reference images per edit, which suits batches of variants for the same product or character
  • ✓ Live on krea.ai for its 30 million users and available through fal, Hedra, Together AI, Nous Research, OpenRouter and Replicate

How to Use

  1. Start from the task shape: this is an editor-first model for changing images, building scenes and cleaning up texture, not a from-scratch generator
  2. State what must stay fixed — product shape, label text, logo, colour — because the more explicit you are, the less drift you get
  3. When a person or product has to match across images, supply references up front, up to six, instead of hoping prose does the job
  4. Zoom in and check shape, text, logo, colour and small details against the original; a consistency claim is not a guarantee for your frame

FAQ

What is Krea 3?

An image editing model Krea released on 15 October 2026 (announcement: https://www.krea.ai/blog/introducing-krea-3). The claim is narrow and specific: most edits come back in under 8 seconds end to end at native 2K, costing $0.06 per 2K image, while leaving untouched what you did not ask to change.

How does it get that fast?

Krea's own comparison uses median request-to-finished time for edit jobs running on Krea between 24 September and 1 October 2026, queue included: under 8 seconds and $0.06 at 2K for Krea 3, versus 33 seconds and $0.135 for Nano Banana Pro, and 90 seconds and $0.22 for GPT Image 2. The prices are list prices per image without image references, and the timings were measured on Krea's own infrastructure, not by an independent third party.

What does leaving the rest alone actually mean?

Krea gives two examples: change the setting around a product and the label stays sharp with the logo intact, and when you give it a face plus an outfit, the person in the next image is still the same person. It also does regional editing — replacing the sofa, chairs and table while the rug, the view and the woman reading in the corner remain. That is the useful part for updating a single product or label on an already-approved image.

What does it cost and where can I use it?

Krea lists $0.06 per 2K image. It went live on krea.ai for 30 million users on launch day and is available through fal, Hedra, Together AI, Nous Research, OpenRouter and Replicate. Plan pricing and quotas on each platform vary, so check their current rate cards rather than extrapolating from this page.

When is it the wrong tool?

Expect disappointment if you treat it as a generator. Its home turf is editing — changing scenes, swapping materials and colours, cleaning up, producing variants of an existing shot. For original imagery from a blank prompt or for style exploration, a generative model fits better. And since the head-to-head numbers are vendor-measured, test on your own assets before batching production work through it.