Krea 3 Edits Images in Under 8 Seconds, 4× Faster Than Nano Banana Pro
Krea 3 – Frontier Image Model 4× faster than Nano Banana Pro
Krea 3 is a production-focused image editing model that changes only what you specify. It completes edits in under 8 seconds at roughly $0.06 per image, compared to Nano Banana Pro's 26.8 seconds and $0.135. It supports regional editing, exact hex color matching, up to eight references, and native 2K output, with character consistency across a sequence of edits.
Krea 3 is an image editing model built for production. It changes only what you ask, finishes an edit in under, and costs per image.
- dvrp
Hello HN,
This is Diego from Krea. Today we are announcing the open beta of Krea 3, our newest foundational image model.
In a nutshell, it’s a frontier image model in terms of quality, but at a fraction of the speed and a fraction of the price.
We will be releasing a more technical update, like we did with Krea 2 (https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report), but this website shows the capabilities we focused on:
* Native regional edits
* Precise edits so that there is minimal area degradation pixel-wise
* Frontier image quality. Benchmarks still being worked on, but in our internal evals it seems a no-brainer replacement to NBP or GPT Image, both speed and cost-wise.
* Faster edits (AFAICK, this should unlock a pareto frontier for speed in frontier edit models).
In terms of future updates, the team is thinking about letting folks fine-tune Krea 3 (via LoRAs) and open-weights, but we’re still in the middle of launch hiccups and then we’ll revisit the next iterations.
Thanks!
- jjcm
Comparison samples with GPT-Image-2.5 for UI design work:
Starship landing page
Krea 3: https://image.non.io/80b85aaa-286b-4ad7-b3ae-cfab4b491216.we...
GPT-Image-2.5: https://image.non.io/19c5f032-cbc7-4034-9682-3aba451bd669.we...
Fashion history website
Krea 3: https://image.non.io/a6e61219-963c-4921-b453-738960e03308.we...
GPT-Image-2.5: https://image.non.io/c067fd76-9c7e-46c2-a8fd-0b0931bf93f6.we...
Banking website
Krea 3: https://image.non.io/3a1e7b50-36e7-418c-ab47-368ce4f01948.we...
GPT-Image-2.5: https://image.non.io/b96a7e00-3289-4044-90de-e0f86a2ca55e.we...
Overall Krea 3 isn't near GPT-Image-2.5 in terms of visual creativity in this space, but it still should be commended for its ability to render small text details. That said despite it specifying you can add exact hex codes as color reference, I've found that they tend to leak into the design (check the valuation panel of the banking website - notice to the right of the "fixed indexed 7-yr" there's a hex code that made it into the image).
I'd love to get my hands on this to post-train and see if it can be pushed further in this space. I actually see a lot of potential for the model, despite the clear differences in the examples above.
- ramenlover
Can you share any vague details on how much compute/train time was needed to create the model?
- Anonyneko
Are open weights being considered? The one thing I'm always looking forward to is all of the anime fine-tunes.
- geooff_
Great step in the right direction. IMO still to expensive for most “product” use cases.
Fast and affordable imaging editing unlocks tons of cool use cases. It’s refreshing to see latency be held just as important as price as-well!
I’ve been bootstrapping a personal styling app. Funnily enough I’m still seeing best results/$ from grok imagine V1. A now deprecated model.