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KreaAdobe FireflyBlack Forest Labs (FLUX)
| Field | Kreakrea.ai | Adobe Fireflyfirefly.adobe.com | Black Forest Labs (FLUX)bfl.ai |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Aggregator studio hosting 60-plus image, video, 3D and upscaling models behind one subscription, plus its own Krea 1 model tuned for skin texture and painterly styles. Bundles FLUX, Nano Banana, Veo, Sora, Kling and Topaz upscalers. | Adobe's generative suite, currently on Firefly Image 5, trained on Adobe Stock, openly licensed and public-domain material rather than scraped web images. Now also brokers third-party models and generates video. Credit cost varies by model: Image 5 is 10 credits, Image 4 Ultra 20. | The FLUX family from the ex-Stable Diffusion team. FLUX.2 ships as klein, dev, pro, flex and max; FLUX 3 landed 26 July 2026 as one multimodal model doing image, 20-second video with native audio, and robot action prediction, still in gated early access. |
| Category | AI media generation | AI media generation | AI media generation |
| Cost tier | mixed | mixed | mixed |
| Pricing | Free 100 compute units/day. Basic $9/mo (5,000 CU), Pro $35 (20,000), Max $70 (60,000), Business $200 (80,000). About 20% off annual. | Free tier with limited watermarked credits. Standard $9.99/mo (2,000 credits), Pro $19.99 (4,000), Premium $199.99 (50,000). API is enterprise contract only. | API per image: FLUX.2 klein from $0.014, pro from $0.03, flex $0.05, max $0.07. Kontext pro $0.04, max $0.08. Open weights free to self-host. |
| Why builders pick it | Replaces four subscriptions with one and usually has new model releases live within the same week they ship. The realtime canvas re-renders in under 50ms as you drag, making it the fastest way to lock composition before spending credits. | The pick when legal sign-off matters more than raw quality: Adobe offers IP indemnification to enterprise customers, which no other major generator does. Deep native integration into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express beats any bolt-on plugin. | The pragmatic pick when image generation lives inside your own product: cheap per-image API, plus dev and klein open weights you can run on your own GPUs with no per-call fee. Kontext remains the best instruction-based image editor. |
| Watch out for | Compute units burn at wildly different rates per model - premium video models can drain a month of Basic credits in a handful of clips. The commercial licence starts at Basic ($9); the free tier does not carry one. | Free-tier outputs are watermarked. Consumer plans include no API access at all - Firefly Services is an enterprise sales contract with no published rate card, and community reports suggest a starting commitment near $1,000/month. | Open weights are not an open licence - dev and klein are non-commercial unless you buy a BFL commercial self-hosting licence. FLUX 3 access is staged and gated: video first, image later, open weights last. |
| How to wire it up | Unified REST API across 20+ image and video models on paid plans, metered in compute units. | Firefly Services API is enterprise-only via Adobe Sales; there is no self-serve developer tier. | Direct REST API at api.bfl.ai, plus resale through fal, Replicate and Together. |
| Editor's pick | No | No | No |
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# Tool comparison — Krea vs Adobe Firefly vs Black Forest Labs (FLUX) Source: Kbaise, a directory of tools that work with Lovable projects. Pick one and tell me why before writing any integration code. ## Krea (krea) - URL: https://www.krea.ai - Category: AI media generation - Cost: mixed — Free 100 compute units/day. Basic $9/mo (5,000 CU), Pro $35 (20,000), Max $70 (60,000), Business $200 (80,000). About 20% off annual. - What it is: Aggregator studio hosting 60-plus image, video, 3D and upscaling models behind one subscription, plus its own Krea 1 model tuned for skin texture and painterly styles. Bundles FLUX, Nano Banana, Veo, Sora, Kling and Topaz upscalers. - Why builders pick it: Replaces four subscriptions with one and usually has new model releases live within the same week they ship. The realtime canvas re-renders in under 50ms as you drag, making it the fastest way to lock composition before spending credits. - Trap: Compute units burn at wildly different rates per model - premium video models can drain a month of Basic credits in a handful of clips. The commercial licence starts at Basic ($9); the free tier does not carry one. - Wiring: Unified REST API across 20+ image and video models on paid plans, metered in compute units. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/krea ## Adobe Firefly (adobe-firefly) - URL: https://firefly.adobe.com - Category: AI media generation - Cost: mixed — Free tier with limited watermarked credits. Standard $9.99/mo (2,000 credits), Pro $19.99 (4,000), Premium $199.99 (50,000). API is enterprise contract only. - What it is: Adobe's generative suite, currently on Firefly Image 5, trained on Adobe Stock, openly licensed and public-domain material rather than scraped web images. Now also brokers third-party models and generates video. Credit cost varies by model: Image 5 is 10 credits, Image 4 Ultra 20. - Why builders pick it: The pick when legal sign-off matters more than raw quality: Adobe offers IP indemnification to enterprise customers, which no other major generator does. Deep native integration into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express beats any bolt-on plugin. - Trap: Free-tier outputs are watermarked. Consumer plans include no API access at all - Firefly Services is an enterprise sales contract with no published rate card, and community reports suggest a starting commitment near $1,000/month. - Wiring: Firefly Services API is enterprise-only via Adobe Sales; there is no self-serve developer tier. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/adobe-firefly ## Black Forest Labs (FLUX) (black-forest-labs) - URL: https://bfl.ai - Category: AI media generation - Cost: mixed — API per image: FLUX.2 klein from $0.014, pro from $0.03, flex $0.05, max $0.07. Kontext pro $0.04, max $0.08. Open weights free to self-host. - What it is: The FLUX family from the ex-Stable Diffusion team. FLUX.2 ships as klein, dev, pro, flex and max; FLUX 3 landed 26 July 2026 as one multimodal model doing image, 20-second video with native audio, and robot action prediction, still in gated early access. - Why builders pick it: The pragmatic pick when image generation lives inside your own product: cheap per-image API, plus dev and klein open weights you can run on your own GPUs with no per-call fee. Kontext remains the best instruction-based image editor. - Trap: Open weights are not an open licence - dev and klein are non-commercial unless you buy a BFL commercial self-hosting licence. FLUX 3 access is staged and gated: video first, image later, open weights last. - Wiring: Direct REST API at api.bfl.ai, plus resale through fal, Replicate and Together. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/black-forest-labs ## Rules 1. Prefer the free tier when no budget was stated, and say what the ceiling is. 2. Read the full dossier before integrating. 3. Fetch /api/public/models before writing any AI model ID.
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