Krea 3 API

About Krea 3

Krea's newest model, with a step that plans the picture first.

Call it with the model name krea/3/text-to-image on POST /jobs/createTask, from 6 credits per image ($0.06).

Introduction

Krea 3 Text to image draws one image from a plain-language prompt on Krea 3, the in-house image model Krea built first for instruction-following edits.

Choose a mode by starting material

Key features

Film-photograph realism

In our tests Krea 3 rendered skin, fabric and late light like a scanned film negative: grain, halation and believable colour casts came through from a short style line at the end of the prompt.

Fashion-level content only

Requests are screened before drawing.

Request parameters

Pricing

Prices are in credits, the same credits you use on the website (1 credit = $0.01). The hold is taken when the task is accepted and settled to the actual charge when it finishes; failed tasks are refunded.

Each task is rounded up to whole credits, so one run at the lowest tier costs 6 credits per image ($0.06).

For an exact number before you run, send the same body to POST /jobs/quote.

Use cases

Editorial and lookbook stills

Period fashion, interiors and portraits with a photographic finish, ready for a moodboard or a campaign draft.

Prompt guide & pro tips

Write it like a shot list

Who, what they wear, where they are, the light, then one line of film and colour grade. Krea 3 reads full sentences well.

Draft fast, finish high

Use the fast variant to find the framing, then switch to high quality for the keeper. Reusing a seed brings you close to the same image but is not guaranteed to match exactly.

Keep a negative prompt short

negative_prompt only applies to the high-quality variant. A few words such as "text, watermark" are enough.

API quick start

Call the Krea 3 API in three steps

1. Create an API key. Sign in to PopNow and create a key in the API console. Keys start with sk-popnow- and use the same credits as the website.
2. Send the request. POST /jobs/createTask with model krea/3/text-to-image and an input object that follows the parameter table. The response returns a task ID straight away.
3. Get the result. Poll GET /jobs/recordInfo with the task ID, or pass a callBackUrl and we post the result to it. Download the output links when the task succeeds.

# 1. Create the task. Keep the Idempotency-Key if you retry after a network error.
export IDEMPOTENCY_KEY="$(uuidgen)"
curl -X POST https://api.popnow.ai/api/v1/jobs/createTask \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POPNOW_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $IDEMPOTENCY_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "krea/3/text-to-image",
  "input": {
    "prompt": "A ceramic teapot on a linen cloth, soft window light, muted palette",
    "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
    "quality": "high",
    "output_format": "png"
  }
}'

# 2. Copy data.taskId from the response, then poll until state is succeeded, failed, canceled or expired.
TASK_ID="TASK_ID_FROM_RESPONSE"
curl "https://api.popnow.ai/api/v1/jobs/recordInfo?taskId=$TASK_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $POPNOW_API_KEY"

Replace the prompt and any links with your own. The API tab has the response, polling and callback reference.

Krea 3 API questions

All Krea models

• Krea 3 APIKrea's newest model, with a step that plans the picture firstFrom 6 credits per image
• Krea 2 Turbo LoRA APIKrea 2 Turbo images and restyles with your own LoRAsFrom 4 credits per image
• Krea 2 Large APIKrea's most detailed tier for cinematic key framesFrom 9 credits per image
• Krea 2 Medium APIEveryday Krea images for steady volume workFrom 5 credits per image
• Krea 2 Medium Turbo APIQuick Krea frames guided by up to ten style referencesFrom 3 credits per image

Other image APIs

• Seedream 5.0 Pro APIHigh-detail images and edits from up to ten referencesFrom 6 credits per image
• FLUX.2 Max APITop-tier FLUX: photoreal light and exact brand colorsFrom 11 credits per image
• Qwen Image 2.1 Pro APIUp to six detailed 2K images from one promptFrom 6 credits per image
• FLUX 3 Klein Base APIFull-quality FLUX 3 Klein images and edits up to 2KFrom 6 credits per image

More about Krea 3

Try it

Krea 3 AI Image Generator onlineCreate images with Krea 3 in PopNow

Endpoints

Krea 3 · Edit Image

Docs

Krea 3 model ID and input schema in the API docsPopNow API quickstart: your first request in five minutesImage generation guide for the PopNow APIWebhooks: get Krea 3 results without polling