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How much does Krea AI cost, and is the free plan enough?

Published 2026-10-16 · Researched and price-checked on official sources

Krea AI costs $35/mo on Pro and $105/mo on Max billed monthly, or $21 and $63 billed yearly: the pricing page opens on the yearly toggle, which is why most screenshots show the lower number. Free is 100 compute units a day and excludes the commercial license.

Key facts

What matters

Pro is $35/mo month-to-month or $21/mo billed yearly; Max is $105/mo or $63/mo (Krea pricing page, read 16 Oct 2026).
The pricing page defaults to the Yearly toggle, so the first price a visitor sees is the annual-commitment rate, not the month-to-month rate.
Free is capped at 100 compute units a day, and Krea's FAQ says the commercial license applies to Pro, Max, Business and Enterprise only.
Pro and Max units do not roll over, and one-time compute packs expire after 90 days, so unused capacity is money gone.
Krea 3, launched 15 Oct 2026, is listed at $0.06 per edit; Pro's 20,000 monthly units cover about 1,111 Krea 3 generations, roughly two cents each.

How much does Krea AI cost?

Four paid tiers sit above a free entry point, and each one carries two prices depending on how you pay. The figures below are from the official pricing page, read on 16 October 2026.

Free is $0 and gives 100 compute units a day. Krea describes it as basic use with pay-as-you-go units.
Pro costs $35 a month on monthly billing or $21 a month billed yearly, and includes 20,000 compute units a month.
Max costs $105 a month or $63 a month billed yearly, with 60,000 units a month.
Business is listed at $200 a month, or $160 a month billed yearly, for the 80,000-unit pack. The pack selector runs from 20,000 units to 1.5 million units, and up to 50 members are included at no extra cost per seat.
Enterprise is custom priced, with a custom seat count, SAML single sign-on and indemnification.

Across 12 months, Pro costs $252 billed yearly against $420 on monthly billing. Max costs $756 against $1,260. Krea's banner claim on the page is "Save 40% on yearly plans", and that holds for both of those tiers.

The yearly price is the one you see first

The pricing page loads with the Yearly option already selected. Pro shows $21 with $35 struck through, Max shows $63 with $105 struck through, and the month-to-month rate is the smaller, greyed-out number. Nothing is hidden, but the first figure a buyer reads is the annual-commitment price.

If you are comparing Krea against a tool that quotes month-to-month rates, correct for that before judging value: Krea's month-to-month numbers are $35 and $105, not $21 and $63.

Business is the exception. Its listed 80,000-unit pack drops from $200 to $160 a month on yearly billing, a 20% saving rather than the 40% the banner promises. Krea's own plan configuration confirms the gap: the yearly discount is coded as 40% on Pro and Max and 20% on Business.

What each plan actually includes

Krea's FAQ answers the license question directly: the commercial license is included in Pro, Max, Business and Enterprise, not in Free. If you sell the output, the free tier is a trial rather than a working plan.

Pro and Max are individual plans. Business is team-based, with up to 50 members sharing one pool of units.
Support scales the same way: Free gets community support in Discord, Business gets priority email support, and Enterprise adds a dedicated account manager and custom onboarding.
Upgrades and downgrades take effect immediately and are prorated, so starting on Pro and moving up mid-cycle does not waste the partial month.
Business adds per-member spend limits, admin roles, fine-grained model access controls and credit rollover, which the individual tiers do not have.

Concurrency and LoRA training separate Pro from Max

Units are not the only difference between the two individual tiers, and for batch work the queue matters as much as the allowance. Pro runs 8 image jobs and 4 video jobs at once. Max lists unlimited image concurrency and 8 video jobs, so a long render queue never blocks the next prompt.

LoRA training is the wider gap. Pro trains a LoRA from up to 50 images, the same limit as Free, while Max allows 2,000 images per LoRA. A studio training character or product models has a reason to pick Max beyond the extra 40,000 units; a solo designer comparing the two on price alone will usually find the 50-image LoRA cap on Pro is the binding constraint, not concurrency.

Compute units, not seats, are the real limit

Every tier is metered in compute units, and the rules around them matter more than the headline price. Pro and Max allocate units monthly and they do not roll over, according to Krea's FAQ: unused capacity disappears at the end of the billing cycle. Business and Enterprise can roll unused credits forward. Extra units bought as one-time packs sit outside the plan and stay valid for 90 days.

Krea publishes generation counts so buyers can translate units into work. On Pro's 20,000 units a month, its comparison table lists roughly 10,000 Krea 2 Turbo images, about 1,111 Krea 3 Beta edits, or around 157 GPT Image 2.5 generations. Units are shared across every model in the account, so those counts describe what a month looks like if you spend everything in one place.

Krea 3 at $0.06 an edit, or about two cents on Pro

Krea 3 launched on 15 October 2026 as an image editing model. The launch page headlines "4x faster than Nano Banana Pro", claims native 2K output, and says an edit finishes in under 8 seconds and costs $0.06 per image, against the $0.135 list price it quotes for Nano Banana Pro. Those are Krea's own figures, measured on Krea's comparison setup (one attempt per model, 2K, with precision defined as the share of pixels outside the edit area left unchanged).

The same model appears in the pricing table as Krea 3 Beta. About 1,111 generations from Pro's 20,000 monthly units works out to just under two cents an edit at $21 a month billed yearly, or roughly three cents at $35 a month. That math only holds if Krea 3 editing is all you spend units on.

Krea 3 is also distributed outside the subscription. The launch page names fal, Baseten, Comfy, Together AI, Civitai, Envato and Creative Fabrica among its distribution partners, so a buyer who needs dozens of edits a month rather than thousands can pay per image instead of committing to a plan.

Which Krea plan fits, and who should skip it

Map your monthly volume to the allowance and the choice is narrow. Under about 100 Krea 3 edits a month, stay free or buy per image from a distribution partner. A few hundred to roughly a thousand edits a month is Pro at $252 a year. Heavy editing plus video, or LoRA training beyond 50 images, pushes you to Max at $756 a year.

Teams should run one comparison before choosing Business. Five Pro seats billed yearly cost $1,260 a year for 100,000 units, while the Business 80,000-unit pack costs $1,920 a year. Business wins on admin controls, rollover and per-member spend limits, not on price per unit.

Three situations where a Krea subscription is the wrong buy:

You need commercial rights on a zero budget. Free excludes the commercial license, so $21 a month billed yearly is the real entry price for client work.
Your volume is small or lumpy. Pro and Max units do not roll over, so a quiet month is money you cannot recover.
Your team is larger than 50. Business includes up to 50 members at the flat price and Krea routes bigger organisations to Enterprise, which has no public rate card.

At a glance

Plan	Monthly billing	Yearly billing	Units included	Commercial license
Free	$0	$0	100 units per day	No
Pro	$35/mo	$21/mo	20,000 units per month	Yes
Max	$105/mo	$63/mo	60,000 units per month	Yes
Business	$200/mo	$160/mo	80,000-unit pack (20k to 1.5M selectable)	Yes
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	Custom allocation	Yes

Krea AI plans, verified on krea.ai/pricing, 16 Oct 2026

FAQ

Is Krea AI free?

There is a free tier at $0 with 100 compute units a day and no card required, but it excludes the commercial license that Pro and above include. For paid client work, budget $21 a month billed yearly.

How much does Krea 3 cost per image?

Krea lists $0.06 per edit on the Krea 3 launch page, against the $0.135 list price it quotes for Nano Banana Pro. Inside a Pro plan, the pricing table counts about 1,111 Krea 3 Beta generations from 20,000 monthly units, which is just under two cents each at the yearly rate.

Do Krea compute units roll over?

Not on Pro or Max. Monthly units expire at the end of each billing cycle, so unused capacity is lost. Business and Enterprise can roll unused credits forward, and one-time compute packs stay valid for 90 days.