Krea vs LumiYing vs OCMaker AI vs Pika
A side-by-side look at Krea, LumiYing, OCMaker AI 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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Anime character, image, and short-video generator that aggregates third-party image and video models
- Price
- Free tier + paid
- Learning
- Easy
- Best for
- Designing an original anime or VTuber character and building a model sheet with pose variants
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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.
All 4 offer: text to image, image editing, text to video, image to video, third-party models.
Feature by feature
Krea vs LumiYing vs OCMaker AI vs Pika: capabilities
| Krea | LumiYing | OCMaker AI | 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 | Free tier + paid | Starter $10/mo ($8/mo billed yearly); Creator $35/mo; Enterprise custom |
| Infinite canvas | Yes | Not confirmed | No | No |
| Node / flow builder | Yes | No | No | No |
| AI agent | Yes | Not confirmed | Partial | Partial |
| Chat assistant | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Partial |
| Team collaboration | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Text to image | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image editing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Text to video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image to video | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Video to video | Partial | Partial | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Native audio in video | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Lip-sync | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes | Partial |
| Voice / TTS | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes |
| Music & SFX | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Upscaling | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes | Not confirmed |
| Character consistency | Partial | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| Camera control | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Partial | Partial |
| Custom training | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Third-party models | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Public API | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes |
| MCP server | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Mobile app | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes |
| Open source | Partial | No | No | No |
| Free tier | Yes | Partial | Yes | Partial |
| Commercial use | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | 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 |
OCMaker AI
See the vendor's pricing page
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
OCMaker AI
Pick it for
- Designing an original anime or VTuber character and building a model sheet with pose variants
- Storyboarding a manga or comic page, then animating key panels into short clips
- Testing one character prompt across several image models before committing to a style
Stands out
- Anime-specific toolset in one place: sketch simplification, line art coloring, photo-to-anime, manga and comic panel generation, and a character reference sheet tool.
- Model aggregator: one account reaches Seedream, Nano Banana, GPT Image, Midjourney, Flux Kontext, Kling, Veo 3.1, Seedance, Wan, Hailuo, Runway and Vidu, so you can test the same character prompt across several models.
Watch out
- Paid plan prices and token allowances are not published on any page I could read, so the real cost is hard to predict
- Commercial-use rights are not stated in the Terms or on the pricing page
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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