Krea vs LumiYing
A side-by-side look at Krea and LumiYing for filmmakers: what each one can do, what it costs, and where they actually differ.
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Multi-model AI canvas, agent and API for images, video and upscaling
- Price
- Basic $9/mo; Pro $35/mo ($21 yearly); Business $200/mo ($160 yearly); see the vendor's pricing page for other plans
- Learning
- Moderate
- Best for
- Pre-visualization: moodboards, look development and concept stills for a shoot
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Seedance, Kling, GPT Image and Nano Banana on one credit balance for filmmakers.
- Price
- Credit packs from $19.90 one-time (1,000 credits); no subscription
- Learning
- Easy
- Best for
- Running one shot prompt through Seedance, Kling and GPT Image to pick a model before committing budget
The short version
Where they differ
- Only Krea offers node / flow builder.
All 2 offer: text to image, image editing, text to video, image to video, third-party models.
Feature by feature
Krea vs LumiYing: capabilities
| Krea | LumiYing | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Basic $9/mo; Pro $35/mo ($21 yearly); Business $200/mo ($160 yearly); see the vendor's pricing page for other plans | Credit packs from $19.90 one-time (1,000 credits); no subscription |
| Infinite canvas | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Node / flow builder | Yes | No |
| AI agent | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Chat assistant | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Team collaboration | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Text to image | Yes | Yes |
| Image editing | Yes | Yes |
| Text to video | Yes | Yes |
| Image to video | Yes | Yes |
| Video to video | Partial | Partial |
| Native audio in video | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Voice / TTS | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Music & SFX | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Upscaling | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Character consistency | Partial | Partial |
| Custom training | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Third-party models | Yes | Yes |
| Public API | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Open source | Partial | No |
| Free tier | Yes | Partial |
| Commercial use | Yes | Not confirmed |
Each column comes from that tool's own researched page. "Not confirmed" means the vendor doesn't say.
The verdict
Which one should you pick?
Krea
Pick it for
- Pre-visualization: moodboards, look development and concept stills for a shoot
- Producers who want Seedance, Nano Banana and ChatGPT Image in one account instead of three subscriptions
- Motion designers generating short hero clips with a reference image and a generated soundtrack
Stands out
- One compute balance covers Krea's own models plus third-party image and video models (Seedance 2.5, Nano Banana Pro, ChatGPT Image 2, Kling, Topaz), so you do not need a separate subscription per model.
- Canvas, node workflows and the Krea Agent sit in the same product, so a brief can be run as a chat or built as a visual graph.
Watch out
- Compute units are opaque: per-model costs are not published, so budgeting video is guesswork
- Native video is capped at 720p for Seedance 2.5; 1080p and 4K need Seedance 2.0
LumiYing
Pick it for
- Running one shot prompt through Seedance, Kling and GPT Image to pick a model before committing budget
- Pre-viz and storyboard frames from character sheets and reference stills
- Extending or re-editing a short AI clip without starting over
Stands out
- One credit balance across Seedance, Kling, GPT Image, Nano Banana and Midjourney, instead of separate subscriptions for each model
- Credits never expire and there is no monthly reset, which suits project-based work better than a monthly plan
Watch out
- No API, MCP server, canvas or node workflow documented on the official site
- Output is only as good as the upstream model, and access depends on those vendors staying available
Each column comes from that tool's own researched page, checked against vendor pricing and changelog pages (oldest check: ). Sources are listed on each tool's page.