Krea 2

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What is Krea 2?

Krea 2 is Krea AI's first image foundation model built from scratch. It is a 12.9-billion-parameter single-stream diffusion transformer that uses Qwen3-VL as its text encoder, focusing on aesthetic diversity and creative control by combining text-to-image generation with prompt expansion and visual style references.

What makes Krea 2 different from a general AI image generator?

Krea 2 is designed to explore how an image looks and feels, not only whether it contains requested objects. It features expressive visual range, style references, moodboards, and adjustable creativity. Krea reports a top-ten placement on the Artificial Analysis text-to-image leaderboard and released model weights openly instead of keeping them behind an API.

What are Krea 2 style references?

A style reference is an image used to guide palette, texture, lighting, composition, or atmosphere. Several references can be combined, with each one influencing the result at a strength you set, used when the aesthetic you want is easier to show than to describe in words.

How do Krea 2 creativity settings work?

Creativity controls how literally Krea 2 follows a prompt. Raw and low settings stay closer to explicit instructions; medium balances fidelity and invention; high gives the model more freedom to add aesthetic decisions. Lower settings suit client work with fixed requirements, while higher settings suit open-ended exploration where surprising results are welcome.

What is the difference between Krea 2 Medium and Large?

Krea 2 Medium is positioned for faster, more cost-efficient creative exploration, especially for expressive and illustrative work. Large is more than twice the size of Medium, with stronger photorealism, raw texture, motion blur, grain, and cinematic looks, earning its extra cost when photographic detail is the point.