Krea 2
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“some of the biggest open-weight bangers (Krea 2, Ideogram 4, and the kind of slept-on Boogu-Image 0.1)”
“I love krea 2, thank you for all your hard work!”
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“The 12B open-weight Krea 2 scored pretty well in my GenAI benchmark”
“And Krea 2 has a community license [2] that is fairly permissive”
Caveats and dissent
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“it's literally cheaper on Krea than using ChatGPT Images”
“We are on par with Nano Banana in terms of image quality”
“We recommend training off the undistilled, Raw checkpoint, and then applying the LoRA to the Turbo model for inference.”
“I'm the cofounder of Krea (https://www.krea.ai/). We build creative tools”
“a company building creative tooling and large-scale infrastructure for multimedia teams”
Threads where it came up
- Krea 2 Technical Report 8 mentions
- Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale 3 mentions
- Qwen Image 2.1 2 mentions
- A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents 1 mention
- FLUX 3 Image Klein 1 mention
- Nano Banana 2 Lite 1 mention
Also written as Krea. Data: krea-2.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“some of the biggest open-weight bangers (Krea 2, Ideogram 4, and the kind of slept-on Boogu-Image 0.1)”
“comparable to Krea 2 and Ideogram 4”
“I love krea 2, thank you for all your hard work!”
“As a Krea2 local model enjoyer”
“The 12B open-weight Krea 2 scored pretty well in my GenAI benchmark”
“they've been upstaged by Krea 2 (6/15) and Ideogram4 (8/15)”
“And Krea 2 has a community license [2] that is fairly permissive”
“Krea is good.”
“now supports Krea2”
“it's not open source when the license”
“This is a really impressive showing especially given how fast the Turbo model at 8 steps.”
“you can try it right away at krea.ai/image”