Krea 2 Image Generation AI Goes Open Source, Now Runs Locally in ComfyUI
An open-weight model that beats FLUX.2 in blind quality rankings and runs locally on consumer hardware gives creators a free, high-quality alternative to proprietary image generators.
Reporting from 1 sources: GIGAZINE.
AI development company Krea has open-sourced its image generation model Krea 2, releasing two 12-billion-parameter variants: Krea 2 Raw for fine-tuning and Krea 2 Turbo for fast inference. Both models are available under a community license that permits commercial use with conditions. Krea 2 Turbo is now usable in ComfyUI, and in blind human evaluations it scored higher than FLUX.2 on the Design Arena ranking.
Krea released the 12-billion-parameter Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo on Hugging Face under the Krea 2 Community License, which allows commercial use with some restrictions. The Turbo variant has been fine-tuned and distilled for speed. In the Design Arena blind human evaluation, Krea 2 Turbo ranked higher than FLUX.2. The models total 17.8 GB and can be downloaded and run locally through ComfyUI, where a dedicated template handles text-to-image generation. GIGAZINE tested the model with prompts in Japanese and found it correctly rendered detailed instructions including text on a newspaper, hair gradients, and specific art styles such as watercolor, cel shading, and Van Gogh.
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