What happened
Krea opened the beta for Krea 3, which does end-to-end 2K edits in under 8 seconds, accepts up to 8 reference images, and costs $0.06 per image through its API.
Why it matters
The team says this makes it 10× faster and one-third the price of an earlier generation model while keeping comparable quality, so image generation and editing may become cheaper and quicker for API users.
WHO IT HITSDevelopers and creative teams that call image-editing APIs stand to see faster turnaround and lower per-image costs, if the team's speed and price claims hold up in practice.
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Krea 3 arrives as an image generation and editing service that its team positions directly against established models from OpenAI and Google. According to the announcement, it produces end-to-end 2K edits in under 8 seconds and costs $0.06 per image through its API, with support for up to 8 reference images as input. The team also claims that image quality is on par with GPT-Image-2.5 and Nano Banana Pro, while being 10× faster and one-third the price of GPT-Image-2.
The service also emphasizes fine-grained editing: users can make edits at specified locations within an image, specify colors precisely by color code, and keep everything outside the specified area at the original pixel level. For developers building image workflows, the combination of fast turnaround and low per-image pricing could change how they route generation and editing tasks, though the quality and speed comparisons come from the development team itself.
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