Krea AI Pricing vs Pay Per Use: No Subscription

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Visual Sandbox vs Krea

One resets your allowance every month. One does not.

In short

  • Krea sells 5,000 to 80,000 compute units a month, from $9 to $200.
  • At yearly billing and full use Krea is about $0.08 an image against our $0.09.
  • Krea trains LoRA models and generates in real time. We do neither.
  • Krea's units reset every month. Our balance does not.

Our take. Use Krea if you generate most days. Use Visual Sandbox if your output comes in bursts.

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Krea logoKrea

Krea is a large creative suite covering image, video, 3D and lipsync, with LoRA training, real time generation and its own Krea 2 model.

Pricing
$9 to $200 a month, in units
Free plan
100 compute units a day
Also does
LoRA training, real time, 22K upscale

Side by side

The same 9 questions, asked of Krea

Visual Sandbox compared with Krea, question by question
What is comparedVisual SandboxKrea logoKrea
What you pay forEach generationA monthly unit plan
What the balance is inMoney. One credit is one centCompute units
Free tierNone. A $10 minimum top up100 compute units a day
Cheapest paid tierThere is no planBasic, $9 a month, or $5 billed yearly
A month you make nothing$0The plan price
The price before you runA dollar figure on every model page, before you sign inUnits, converted to generation counts on the pricing page
Working as a teamNot offeredA Business plan at $200 a month
From the terminal or an agentA CLI, an MCP server and an API, on the same balanceAn MCP server and an API, on a separate API balance
The catalogue37 modelsImage, video, 3D and lipsync, plus its own Krea 2

Key takeaways

Is Visual Sandbox a good Krea alternative?

Where we win

No subscription
Nothing to cancel and no allowance to lose.
A dollar price before you sign in
Veo 3.1 reads $0.25 a second with audio off. Seedance 2.0 runs $0.10 a second at 480p up to $1.25 at 4K.
A draft mode
P-Video runs at $0.01 a second in draft, so a five second clip costs $0.05.
The balance does not expire
Stop for four months and it is all still there.
Presets you can share
Save a model and its settings, then send the link.

Where Krea wins

LoRA training
Image and video. Train a style or a character on your own files and share it.
Real time generation
The image updates as you type or draw.
Upscaling to 22K
Far beyond anything we offer.
A canvas that builds itself
Krea Nodes, App Builder, and a Nodes Agent that builds a graph from a plain description.
Its own model, and a free tier
Krea 2 is theirs, not a resold API. Free gives 100 units a day.

Worth checking

Krea can be cheaper
About $0.08 an image at yearly billing and full use, against our $0.09.
The size is unstated
Krea's page does not say what image size its generation counts assume.
The allowance is a bundle
It buys video, upscaling and training too, so an image only comparison undersells it.
Our canvas is on a waitlist
Treat it as not shipped.
We do not train
No LoRA training, no real time generation, and one upscale tool at $0.10 an image.

Allowance or balance

One image too many and you buy the next plan up

Krea sells a ladder of plans, priced here by the month, the way ours asks for no commitment either. One image more than a plan covers puts you on the next one, for the whole month.

  • Pro stops at 257 images. The 258th puts you on Max, at **$105** a month.
  • In a month you make nothing, we cost **$0** and the plan still bills.
  • Commit to a year and Krea costs less: **$0.08** an image at full use, against our **$0.09**.

Krea resets the allowance every month. Our balance carries.

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What a month costs

Visual Sandbox
$13.50
Krea, billed monthly · Pro
$35.00

You save

$21.50

The money

The break even, per Nano Banana 2 image

Krea's pricing page converts units to generation counts, so the arithmetic is straightforward: divide the plan price by the generations it counts.

$0.09

Visual Sandbox

Nano Banana 2 at 1K, in any month, used or not.

$0.14

Krea, billed monthly

Basic, Pro and Max all land here.

$0.08

Krea, billed yearly

At full use of the allowance.

Krea planA monthBilled yearlyUnits a month
Free$0$0100 a day
Basic$9$55,000
Pro$35$2120,000
Max$105$6360,000
Business$200$16080,000
  • Krea advertises 40% off yearly plans. 5,000 units is 64 Nano Banana 2 generations or 20 Seedance 2.0 videos; 20,000 units is 257 generations or 83 videos.
  • Against a monthly plan we cost less. Sixty four images on Krea Basic cost $9; the same sixty four cost $5.76 here, and nothing caps you at sixty four.
  • Against a yearly plan at full use Krea costs less. 257 images on yearly Pro cost $21 and cost $23.13 here. Krea wins that by $2.13.
  • The condition is “at full use”. Spend half the Pro allowance and yearly Krea still costs $21 while we cost $11.52. Spend none and Krea costs $21 and we cost $0.

Which one fits

Which one fits you?

Four questions. The answer names Krea when Krea is the right call.

01 of 04

How often do you generate?

Or use both

Krea covers what we do not do at all. We cover the months you barely work.

  1. 01

    Train the LoRA and work in real time on Krea.

  2. 02

    Run the bursts here, where a quiet month costs $0.

  3. 03

    Drop to a smaller Krea plan once the volume moves off it.

The call

Which one to pick

Pick Visual Sandbox when

  • Your output is uneven and an allowance would go to waste.
  • You want a per job cost you can put on an invoice.
  • You want an agent to generate through the CLI or the MCP server.
  • You want to read the price before you run the model.
  • You do not want another subscription.

Krea logoPick Krea when

  • You generate most days and will use the allowance.
  • You need LoRA training on your own characters or style.
  • You want real time generation while you sketch.
  • You upscale beyond 4K for print.
  • You want to connect steps on a canvas now, with an assistant that builds the graph for you.
  • You want one login covering image, video, 3D, lipsync and upscaling.
  • You want to try a large suite for free before you pay.

Read the price, then run it

37 models across image, video, audio, 3D and vector. Each one prints its dollar price before you sign in.

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All comparisons

Free gives 100 compute units a day. Basic is $9 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly, for 5,000 units. Pro is $35, or $21 yearly, for 20,000 units. Max is $105, or $63 yearly, for 60,000 units. Business is $200, or $160 yearly, for 80,000 units.