it also has enterprise level considerations that aren't present in direct API access of Google’s models, rendering almost all of the go to API documentation irrelevant, so it just comes from experience to know to use model garden’s implementation
Just offer the discounted price up front. If your business cannot survive without sneaky pricing, it's not a good business.
I detest this kind of pricing. It seems that for every subscription I need to threaten to leave to get a discount, and now need an AI to automate that process.
This mostly doesn’t happen in Business or Enterprise tiers, but in consumer is ruthlessly competitive.
Don’t hate the player and so on. We don’t like it particularly either.
EDIT: I maybe should probably put an aggressive coupon code, but even through Hacker News I’ve gotten email-spammed because of LLMs that do sentiment analysis and similar techniques. Such a tragedy of the commons if you ask me.
But there’s a whole plethora of worthy models (e.g. flux family, seedream, qwen, etc.) that are not mentioning purely cuz marketing and to avoid complicating the site too much. We hope to release a more technical report soon.
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.
We know users are used to using one model for everything though and have already turned our attention to the text to image side; that message is to let people know that the text to image performance is not final, we expect the final tuning of Krea 3 to beat Krea 2’s high bar there soon.
I definitely agree. Part of my benchmark includes a "compliance score" which is effectively how easy it is to steer the model and Krea 2 ranks among the highest of the local models.
> We know users are used to using one model for everything though and have already turned our attention to the text to image side
Thanks for the answer. It definitely seems like open-weight unified models are becoming much more popular (Qwen-Image 2.1, Ming 0.1, upcoming Ideogram 4.5, etc).
Looking forward to it!
dvrp•1h ago
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 (), 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!
vunderba•1h ago
While Krea 2 was principally a text-to-image model, it seems like Krea 3 might be flipping that around? When I tried the beta a few minutes ago, I noticed a warning message saying that text-to-image was experimental at this point. Is the plan still to treat text-to-image as a first-class citizen, or is Krea 3 going to be more focused on being an editing model?
[1] - https://genai-showdown.specr.net?models=local
dvrp•58m ago
But we’re opening the beta now (after polishing the initial jagged edges in a private beta rollout), to find even more edges now, but at least now the frontier-level capabilities and new capabilities should be available for people to get a great experience.
Do you have a workspace in Krea? I’m happy to put some API credits for you to test Krea 3.
jcelerier•42m ago
dvrp•24m ago
We’d like to open-source it soon (it’s just that it’s another can of worms - that we already went thru for Krea 2), precisely for people to try things like this. The Krea 2 community efforts have been incredible to watch from the inside.
Once Krea 3 is open, you should def try!
vunderba•29m ago
I didn't (but I do now) have an account on Krea since I run most of my benchmarks through a bespoke suite of tools via APIs like OpenRouter and Fal.AI, but I appreciate the generosity! I'll reach out to you via your profile~
georgemcbay•39m ago
"at a fraction of the speed" is generally understood to mean that it is much slower, but I don't think that is what you are intending to say (considering the title and website claim it is multiple times faster)?
dvrp•37m ago