Krea vs LumiYing vs Midjourney vs Pika
A side-by-side look at Krea, LumiYing, Midjourney and Pika 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
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AI image generator for concept art, previs, boards and client-safe stills, with private Stealth mode
- Price
- From $10/mo ($8/mo billed annually); 20% off on annual plans
- Learning
- Easy
- Best for
- Concept art, key art and look development for features and series
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AI video, image and audio studio that routes between Seedance, Veo and Pika's own models
- Price
- Starter $10/mo ($8/mo billed yearly); Creator $35/mo; Enterprise custom
- Learning
- Easy
- Best for
- Fast social and product clips that need dialogue or a sound bed in one pass
The short version
Where they differ
- Only Krea offers node / flow builder.
- Midjourney is the only one without third-party models.
All 4 offer: text to image, image editing, image to video.
Feature by feature
Krea vs LumiYing vs Midjourney vs Pika: capabilities
| Krea | LumiYing | Midjourney | Pika | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | From $10/mo ($8/mo billed annually); 20% off on annual plans | Starter $10/mo ($8/mo billed yearly); Creator $35/mo; Enterprise custom |
| Infinite canvas | Yes | Not confirmed | Partial | No |
| Node / flow builder | Yes | No | No | No |
| AI agent | Yes | Not confirmed | No | Partial |
| Chat assistant | Yes | Not confirmed | No | Partial |
| Team collaboration | Yes | Not confirmed | Partial | Not confirmed |
| Text to image | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image editing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Text to video | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Image to video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Video to video | Partial | Partial | No | Yes |
| Native audio in video | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Lip-sync | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | No | Partial |
| Voice / TTS | Yes | Not confirmed | No | Yes |
| Music & SFX | Yes | Not confirmed | No | Yes |
| Upscaling | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Character consistency | Partial | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Camera control | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Partial |
| Custom training | Yes | Not confirmed | Partial | Not confirmed |
| Third-party models | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Public API | Yes | Not confirmed | No | Yes |
| MCP server | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | No | Yes |
| Mobile app | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Open source | Partial | No | No | No |
| Free tier | Yes | Partial | No | Partial |
| Commercial use | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes | Partial |
Each column comes from that tool's own researched page. "Not confirmed" means the vendor doesn't say.
Plans
Pricing compared
Krea
| Free | $0monthly |
|---|---|
| Basic | $9monthly or yearly |
| Pro | $35 list / $21 yearlymonthly or yearly |
| Business | $200 list / $160 yearlymonthly or yearly |
| Enterprise | Customcustom |
LumiYing
| Starter | $19.90one-time |
|---|---|
| Pro | $39.90 (was $44.80)one-time |
| Max | $69.90 (was $90.00)one-time |
Midjourney
| Basic | $10monthly ($8/mo billed annually) |
|---|---|
| Standard | $30monthly ($24/mo billed annually) |
| Pro | $60monthly ($48/mo billed annually) |
| Mega | $120monthly ($96/mo billed annually) |
Pika
| Free | $0monthly |
|---|---|
| Starter | $10 ($8 yearly)monthly or yearly |
| Creator | $35monthly or yearly |
| Enterprise | Customcustom |
| API Club | $10monthly membership |
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
Midjourney
Pick it for
- Concept art, key art and look development for features and series
- Storyboard frames and mood boards where the look matters more than shot control
- Client-confidential previs on Pro or Mega using Stealth mode
Stands out
- Stealth mode on Pro and Mega keeps confidential client and NDA work out of the public gallery, which the tools above do not offer on an equal basis.
- Consistent, art-directed default look across prompts with the V8.2 personalization profile, which is trained on your ratings rather than a LoRA you build.
Watch out
- No free trial
- Video is still the 2025 V1 image-to-video model, with no text-to-video or audio
Pika
Pick it for
- Fast social and product clips that need dialogue or a sound bed in one pass
- Character and product consistency across a short campaign using @-mentioned references
- Generating voice-over and sound effects for an edit without a second audio subscription
Stands out
- Multi-model access on every plan, including Free: Seedance 2.5, Pika 2.5, MiniMax H3, Veo-class and image models behind one app, so you do not need separate subscriptions
- Own synced-audio models (Soundtrack, SFX, Speech, Music) that score or voice a generated scene in the same tool, priced by Pika as the lowest-cost audio option
Watch out
- Free plan has no monthly credits, so you buy packs before you can test much
- Resolution and clip-length limits per plan are not published on the pricing page
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.
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