The model ranks in the top seven across 15 of 17 editing categories and ties Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 with an Elo score of 1151, trailing Google's Nano Banana 2.1 by one point. Krea 3 offers two modes via its API: a "Fast" mode priced at $0.03 per 1K image, and an "Ultra" mode for 2K edits that costs $0.27 per image with one 1K reference. The company is the only lab in the top 10 of these rankings with a valuation under $1 trillion.
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Krea 3 Ultra Becomes Top Non-Big Tech Image Model on Arena Boards
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The independent startup's vision model earned 1435 points in the Multi-Image Edit Arena to place fourth among all laboratories, while ranking fifth in the Single-Image Edit Arena. Krea 3 Ultra is currently the highest-ranked image editing model not developed by OpenAI, Google, or Microsoft on the Artificial Analysis AA-Image-Editing v2.1 board, where it holds the fifth position overall. The model is second only to GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst in both Animation & Gaming and Frontier editing workloads.
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