Is Krea AI Down?

KREA 2 WENT OPEN WEIGHTS (2026-06-22/23, vendor release notes): 'Krea 2 is now open-weights. We've released Raw and Turbo checkpoints under a permissive license.' Two checkpoints on Hugging Face (huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw and /Krea-2-Turbo) with inference code on GitHub and a technical report. **Krea 2 Raw** -- the ~13B DiT base model before post-training, aimed at fine-tuning and LoRA rather than direct inference. **Krea 2 Turbo** -- the 12B distilled variant, 8 steps, up to 2048x2048. **READ THE LICENCE BEFORE YOU SHIP IT: it is the 'Krea 2 Community License', NOT Apache or MIT.** It permits creative, commercial, developer and research use, but **deployers must implement content filtering or an equivalent review process or they are in breach**, and there is a separate enterprise licensing path. Strategically this completes the vertical-integration arc -- Krea went from a real-time UI over other people's models, to its own foundation model, to shipping that model's weights, in about five weeks

KREA 2 ERA (May-June 2026, vendor release notes): **Krea 2** -- Krea's first foundation image model built from scratch -- introduced 5/12, Pro users 5/15, **GA for everyone 5/18** (with a week of unlimited generations for subscribers). Follow-on ships: **Krea 2 API** (5/27, Fal + ComfyUI integrations), **LoRA training** (5/21 beta for Max/Business, **GA for all users 6/1** -- train custom styles on your own images), **Ideogram 4.0 available inside Krea** (6/3, 2K native resolution + best-in-class text rendering), and **Krea 2 Turbo** (6/4, high-quality images in ~2 seconds). Krea has moved from 'real-time UI on other people's models' to a vertically integrated model+platform play in under a month

Real-time generation canvas occasionally lags or freezes on lower-end hardware and slower connections

Upscaler sometimes introduces artifacts on faces, particularly with non-photorealistic art styles

Free tier queue times can spike to several minutes during peak usage hours