Krea AI Pricing 2026: Compute Units, Six Tiers, and the Daily Free Refill

Krea's proposition is breadth: one interface over a large catalogue of image and video models, sold as compute units rather than per-model credits. That makes it excellent for exploration and slightly awkward to budget.

The tiers

Annual billing takes about 40% off consumer plans and 20% off Business (Basic $5, Pro $21, Max $63 and Business $160 per month when billed yearly). Plan names, prices and unit counts above were re-read from krea.ai/pricing on 18 October 2026.

Two structural details. Units do not roll over on individual plans — only Business and Enterprise credits carry forward. And the free tier refills daily rather than monthly, which is a meaningfully different retention mechanic: 100 units every day beats a one-time grant for actually learning a tool.

The tier that matters is Pro

Basic at $9 is described as having limited video. Full access to the video model set — reported to include Veo 3.1, Kling, Hailuo, Wan and Runway — arrives at Pro, $35, along with Nodes for workflow automation and LoRA training.

If video is why you are looking at Krea, the entry price is $35, not $9. Budgeting on the headline number is the common mistake here.

What breadth buys and what it costs

The upside is real: one subscription, many models, no separate accounts, and a fast path to comparing outputs side by side. For someone still deciding which model suits their work, that is worth more than a per-second saving.

The cost is that a compute unit is not a fixed quantity of output. Different models consume very differently, and a plan sized in units does not tell you how many clips you get. You find out by spending, which is the same structural criticism that applies to every credit-based tool in this category.

Where the API sits

If you already know which model you want, going direct is cheaper and priced in a unit you can reason about. Per-second prices read live on 2 August 2026:

$35 of Krea Pro is roughly 20–25 clips at those model rates — so the subscription is fair value if you use the breadth, and expensive if you always reach for the same model.

Who it suits

Yes: you are exploring, you work across image and video, you value one interface over many, and the daily free refill lets you try before committing.

Not really: you know exactly which model you need and you need it a few times a month. Then you are paying for a catalogue you do not open.

For that second case per-clip pricing is the honest structure — ours is one-off credit packs, or a 3-day trial for $4.99 (one 15-second video) that becomes a $39/month plan unless you cancel — but if you are genuinely model-shopping, Krea's free daily units are a better place to start than anyone's paid first clip.

How to do this without code: If you know the one clip you want, a per-clip route beats a catalogue plan. In AutoHustle this is the autopilot: paste the Reel link, add one photo of yourself and confirm the plan (about 4 credits per second of finished video, so 60 credits for a full 15-second call; analysing the Reel is free). See How to put your face in any Reel and Recreate an Instagram Reel.

Related reading: Krea vs Higgsfield: Two Ways to Buy a Catalogue of Models · AI Video Without a Subscription: What Per-Clip Pricing Actually Costs

For developers: the fal endpoints behind this article

Prices in the article are per-second or per-unit rates from the fal.ai pricing API on the dates stated; re-check them before you build, because endpoints reprice without notice. The IDs:

Model	fal endpoint
HappyHorse 1.1 image-to-video	alibaba/happy-horse/v1.1/image-to-video
HappyHorse 1.1 reference-to-video	alibaba/happy-horse/v1.1/reference-to-video
Kling 3.0 Pro Motion Control	fal-ai/kling-video/v3/pro/motion-control