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Krea 2 Turbo
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by Krea
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALCREATIVE
RANKED #27 OF 74 IMAGES · OVERALL #123 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.2 · 150 VOICES
Krea-2-Turbo on Hugging Face (text to image). 82,347 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY9.7
43 mentions
SAD5.3
15 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 192 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Krea 2 Turbo once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
12.9B parameter diffusion transformer, FP8 checkpoint is about 12 GB while full BF16 is about 25 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM (PLUS 32 GB RAM)
~$250 USEDFP8 or INT8 quant, 8 steps at 1024x1024, ~7 s/image
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$780 NEWFP8 scaled weights, native 8-step sampling at 2K resolution, ~2.5 s/image
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1,750 USEDFull precision BF16 / FP8 uncompressed at 2048x2048, ~1.2 s/image
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN KREA 2 TURBO?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Krea 2 Turbo takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~7 S★★★★★ | ~3 S★★★★★ | ~1 S★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Krea 2 Turbo yet to call it. We found 150 posts but people did not say much either way.
131 POSTS · 19 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · LEMMY · X
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with images models like this one.
Flux
Midjourney> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-06-23 · 638 UPVOTESKREA 2: Open-Source Release
KREA 2: Open-Source Release
- REDDIT · 2026-07-13 · 515 UPVOTESPure unfiltered Soviet (mostly) schizo in Krea 2
Pure unfiltered Soviet (mostly) schizo in Krea 2
- REDDIT · 2026-06-25 · 514 UPVOTESRealism comparaison: Ideogram 4 vs Krea 2 Turbo.
Realism comparaison: Ideogram 4 vs Krea 2 Turbo.
- REDDIT · 2026-07-09 · 464 UPVOTESKrea 2 Turbo Style Reference LoRA
Krea 2 Turbo Style Reference LoRA
- REDDIT · 2026-06-23 · 443 UPVOTESWe are the team behind Krea 2. Ask us anything!
We are the team behind Krea 2. Ask us anything!
- REDDIT · 2026-06-23 · 435 UPVOTESKrea 2 Turbo — Native ComfyUI Workflow + FP8 Weights (12GB, Drag & Drop)
Krea 2 Turbo — Native ComfyUI Workflow + FP8 Weights (12GB, Drag & Drop)
- REDDIT · 2026-06-25 · 308 UPVOTESKrea 2 Turbo: 100+ styles on the same scene
Krea 2 Turbo: 100+ styles on the same scene
- REDDIT · 2026-06-23 · 293 UPVOTESAs promised Krea 2 Turbo + "Raw" Quantized in FP8, MXFP8, NVFP4, INT8 and Convrot INT8!
As promised Krea 2 Turbo + "Raw" Quantized in FP8, MXFP8, NVFP4, INT8 and Convrot INT8!
- REDDIT · 2026-07-12 · 263 UPVOTESI benchmarked every Krea 2 Turbo checkpoint format in ComfyUI - BF16 vs FP8 vs INT8 ConvRot vs MXFP8 vs NVFP4 (150 matched images)
I benchmarked every Krea 2 Turbo checkpoint format in ComfyUI - BF16 vs FP8 vs INT8 ConvRot vs MXFP8 vs NVFP4 (150 matched images)
- REDDIT · 2026-07-03 · 251 UPVOTESKrea 2 Depth controlnet LoRA
Krea 2 Depth controlnet LoRA
- REDDIT · 2026-07-17 · 198 UPVOTESI released two Krea 2 functional LoRAs: identity reference and positional outpainting (weights + Diffusers pipelines)
I released two Krea 2 functional LoRAs: identity reference and positional outpainting (weights + Diffusers pipelines)
- REDDIT · 2026-06-23 · 190 UPVOTESKrea 2 Turbo does the Ghibli art style quite well out of the box
Krea 2 Turbo does the Ghibli art style quite well out of the box