KREA 2: Open-Source Release

Hey everyone,

We’re the team behind Krea, and today we’re launching Krea 2, our new text-to-image model. Krea 2 is the most aesthetic open-source image model available. On quality, Krea 2 is the #1 text-to-image model from an independent lab on Artificial Analysis.

We are releasing Krea 2 as two variants:

Krea 2 Raw. CFG-guided, built for control and fidelity and training.

Krea 2 Turbo. Distilled and few-step, so it’s fast, and it renders up to 2K.

A few things worth knowing:

It’s tuned for natural language. Prompt it the way you’d describe an image to a person. Long, specific prompts give the best results, but short ones work fine too.

To render text in an image, wrap the words in quotes, like a sign that reads “open late”.
There’s a growing set of style LoRAs, and you can load any Krea 2 LoRA by its Hugging Face path.
Try it today:

Code and weights: krea.ai/krea-2-open-source
Technical report: https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report
Code: github.com/krea-ai/krea-2
Try it on Krea: krea.ai
Try it on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/spaces/krea/Krea-2

AMA: We’re doing an AMA right here today at 10 AM PT. Ask us anything: how we trained it, the LoRAs, prompting, limitations, what’s next. The krea team will be in the comments.

Livestream: we are also doing a livestream with the ComfyUI team at 3PM PT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31jiUhCEjJ4

Thanks for taking a look. We’d genuinely love your feedback, rough edges included.

– The Krea Team