Adobe's commercially-safe generative AI (Firefly) plus Express design app, integrated with Creative Cloud.
Krea
AI Image Generation & DesignKrea is an AI creative suite that combines real-time generation (images update as you draw or type), image and video generation with in-house and third-party models such as Flux, Kling, Runway and Veo, an enhancer/upscaler, and custom model training. It also offers editing, style transfer and a real-time video mode. It is used by designers, concept artists and creators who iterate quickly on visuals, and it offers a developer API.
Pricing
Krea pricing
Free plan (daily limits); Basic ~$10/mo ($9 annual)
Last checked September 2026 · Confirm on krea.ai
Features
What Krea does
- Real-time image and video generation from sketches, prompts or webcam
- Image and video generation with Krea and third-party models
- Enhancer and upscaler for images and video
- Custom model (LoRA) training on your own images
- Editing and inpainting
- API for image, video and enhancement
Pros
- Real-time canvas gives immediate visual feedback
- Many leading image and video models under one plan
- Upscaler is strong for AI-generated images
- Free plan with daily compute units
Cons
- Compute-unit system makes costs hard to predict for video
- Interface changes frequently and has many options
- Free plan limits resolution and premium models
- No design templates or layout tools
Fit
Who Krea is for
Look elsewhere if: Users who need finished marketing layouts with text and templates should use Canva or Adobe Express instead.
For teams & enterprise
Enterprise readiness
Vendor states SOC 2 compliance (type not stated, report under NDA); SAML SSO and custom DPAs are Enterprise-only.
- Business / enterprise plan
- Yes
- SSO (SAML / OIDC)
- Enterprise plan
- SCIM user provisioning
- —
- SOC 2
- —
- ISO 27001
- —
- HIPAA (BAA available)
- —
- GDPR DPA
- Enterprise plan
- Data residency options
- —
- No training on your data
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- Audit logs
- —
- Admin controls
- —
- Deployment
- Cloud
From the vendor's own security documentation (trust center). "—" = not confirmed. Verify during your security review. Compare all tools.
| Image & Design feature checklist | |
|---|---|
| Text-to-image | Yes |
| AI editing / inpainting | Yes |
| Background removal | — |
| Upscaling / enhancement | Yes |
| Image-to-video | Yes |
| Commercial use allowed | Paid plans |
| Design templates | No |
| API | Yes |
| Mobile app | iOS |
Krea compared
- Krea vs Adobe Firefly / Adobe Express
- Krea vs Midjourney
- Krea vs Canva
- Krea vs Photoroom
- Krea vs Magnific
- Krea vs Topaz Labs
- Krea vs Let's Enhance
- Krea vs Looka
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