Krea AI is a real-time generative AI studio founded in 2023 by Victor Perez (CEO) and Diego Rodriguez (CTO), who met as students in Barcelona before relocating to San Francisco. The company turned down postgraduate grants from the King of Spain to pursue Krea full-time, building what has become one of the most-used aggregator interfaces for generative image and video models on the web.
Krea's signature feature is real-time image generation: users sketch, drag a 3D scene, or type a prompt and the output updates instantly as they iterate. Under the hood the platform bundles 150+ models including Flux (default image), Wan 2.1 (video), Hunyuan3D-2 (3D), plus access to Veo 3, Sora, Kling, Runway, Luma, Ideogram, Nano Banana, Topaz, Magnific, and Seedance — alongside Krea's own proprietary Krea 1 image model. Latent Consistency Models compress generation to two to four steps so high-quality images appear in under a second.
The company raised a $47M Series B in April 2025 led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total funding to $83M at a $500M post-money valuation. Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract Ventures, and earlier investors also participated. Krea reports over 10 million users on the platform.
Pricing starts with a generous Free plan offering 100 daily compute units (real-time generation with limited models, no commercial license), then Basic at $9/month, Pro at $35/month, Max at $70/month, Business at $200/month, and custom Enterprise plans with SSO and dedicated compute. All paid plans include a commercial license, and yearly billing saves 20%.
Krea differentiates from Midjourney, Runway, and Adobe Firefly by being a model-agnostic studio rather than a single proprietary model. That positioning suits creative directors, designers, and indie filmmakers who want the latest models from every major lab in a single subscription, with workflow tools like Krea Nodes and LoRA training stacked on top.