Krea AI's fast image-editing model — regional 2K edits in under eight seconds, with LoRA fine-tuning for product and character consistency.
Last verified · 2026-10-15 · by Moe Ameen
Krea 3 is Krea AI's image-editing model, opened in beta on October 15, 2026. It is an editor, not a generator-from-scratch: you give it a source photo — or up to six reference images, including style references — and a written instruction, and it changes the image. This makes it a different tool from Krea 2, which generates a new picture from a text prompt. Krea 3's design goal is high-volume, precise editing.
The feature that defines it is regional editing. You select the area you want to change and the model leaves the rest of the frame untouched, with bounding boxes to place new elements in a specific spot — so recoloring a jacket or swapping a background does not re-roll the face, the lighting, or the composition you already liked. It also supports precise multi-turn editing, letting you stack successive changes on the same image.
On output, Krea 3 is native 2K with support up to 4K for print, large screens, and campaign assets, and Krea says a 2K edit returns in under eight seconds end to end. The standout claim is LoRA fine-tuning: Krea positions it as the first editing model that can be fine-tuned with LoRAs on a specific product, person, or style, so a brand packshot or recurring character stays consistent across edits. Per-image API pricing is $0.03 at 1K and $0.06 at 2K.
Two honest scoping notes. First, Krea 3 is a launch-day beta — the speed, quality, and benchmark figures are mostly Krea's own (it claims parity with Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 2.5), and independent testing was thin at release. Second, the reference-image limit varies by host: up to six on Krea, four on fal's edit endpoint. Krea 3 is reachable on krea.ai and the Krea API, and through partners including fal, Together AI, OpenRouter, Replicate, Baseten, Hedra, and Nous Research.
Krea 3's superpower is keeping an asset on-brand while you refine it — region by region, with a LoRA locking your product or character so it never drifts. But a perfected image is still just an image. Kompozy is the layer that multiplies it into a recurring brand presence. Take a Krea 3 edit and Kompozy turns it into a brand-exact Carousel Post (rendered pixel-exact through HyperFrames), a Persona Tweet card, a Quote Graphic, or a Photo Post, with the Persona Brief writing captions and copy in your voice, then publishes the set across eight social platforms plus blog and email from one queue.
The consistency story is where the pairing really lands. Krea 3 holds your product or character identical at the pixel level; Kompozy's HyperFrames and Persona Brief hold your brand identical at the post level. Feed one perfected edit in and Kompozy also generates what an editing model can't — persona and avatar video, clipped shorts, blog articles, newsletters — so a single Krea 3 asset becomes a coordinated, on-brand run across formats and platforms instead of one upload.
Krea 3 is Krea AI's image-editing model, launched in beta on October 15, 2026. You give it a source image or reference images and a written instruction and it edits the image, with regional control over which area changes, native 2K output, and LoRA fine-tuning for consistency.
Krea 2 is a text-to-image model that generates a new image from a prompt. Krea 3 is an editing model that modifies an existing image or set of references, with regional editing, up to six reference images, and LoRA fine-tuning for product and character consistency.
Krea says a 2K edit returns in under eight seconds end to end (company-reported at launch). API pricing is $0.03 per image at 1K and $0.06 per image at 2K, pay-as-you-go on partners like fal and Replicate.
Krea positions Krea 3 as the first editing model that can be fine-tuned with LoRAs on a specific product, person, or style, designed to keep a subject consistent across many edits. Real-world consistency at scale is worth validating on your own assets.
Krea 3 edits the image but does not publish it. Bring the edited image into Kompozy to build a carousel, quote card, tweet card, or photo post, write captions in your brand voice via the Persona Brief, and schedule and publish across eight social platforms plus blog and email from one queue.