Live concept exploration
Direct a visual stream in real time and discover compositions or transitions without waiting on full clips.
Independent tool overview
Krea Realtime at a glance
Krea Realtime is Krea's interactive video-generation experience built around a 14-billion-parameter autoregressive model. It streams frames as they are created, lets users change prompts during generation, and is designed for fast exploration and live visual direction rather than one-shot final rendering.
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- Best for
- Interactive video ideation and live visual direction
- Model
- Krea Realtime 14B
- Core interaction
- Change prompts while video streams
- Hosted access
- Included in Krea's creative app
- Self-host license
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Overview
What Krea Realtime is
Krea Realtime changes the normal text-to-video workflow by making generation interactive. Instead of waiting for a complete clip, users can see frames arrive, redirect the prompt, and restyle or transform the stream while it is running.
The underlying Krea Realtime 14B model was distilled from Wan 2.1 14B using the Self-Forcing technique. Krea reports first frames in as little as one second and 11 frames per second on a single NVIDIA B200 using four inference steps; those are vendor test conditions, not a guarantee for every account or self-hosted GPU.
The model and the broader Krea creative suite should not be confused. The hosted Realtime experience is part of Krea's app plans, while developers can also inspect and self-host the released inference code and weights under a noncommercial, share-alike license.
Realtime responsiveness comes with tradeoffs. Krea's own research documents error accumulation, repetitive motion, mode collapse, weaker complex camera movement, and better results from long prompts that explicitly describe motion.
Use cases
Who Krea Realtime is best for
The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.
Rapid motion studies
Test subjects, movement, atmosphere, and visual style before committing to slower production renders.
Interactive installations and prototypes
Use the released WebSocket streaming implementation as a technical starting point for noncommercial experiments.
Capabilities
Core Krea Realtime features
Streaming generation
Frames arrive during generation instead of only after a complete video has rendered.
Prompt changes in flight
Users can change the written direction while the stream is running to guide subject, scene, or motion.
Realtime restyling
Existing video streams can be transformed and edited interactively.
Long-form autoregressive output
The model generates successive frame blocks and uses cache-management techniques to extend beyond a short fixed clip.
Text-to-video and video-to-video
The released implementation supports generation from prompts as well as transformations driven by video input.
Open inference implementation
Krea publishes model weights, offline sampling tools, and a WebSocket-based streaming server for self-hosted research and experimentation.
Process
How the Krea Realtime workflow works
Step 1
Start with a motion-rich prompt
Describe the subject, action, camera behavior, environment, lighting, and pace; Krea says detailed motion descriptions work better than short captions.
Step 2
Watch the stream develop
Use the first seconds to judge composition, identity, motion, and whether the scene is drifting.
Step 3
Redirect gradually
Change one part of the prompt at a time so the model can transition without losing all visual continuity.
Step 4
Export or regenerate selectively
Treat promising streams as concepts, then choose a higher-control workflow when continuity, exact timing, or final-delivery quality matters.
Cost
Krea Realtime pricing and free plan
Krea includes full access to real-time models on its Free plan. Paid app plans add more monthly compute and commercial-use rights, while the downloadable model is licensed for noncommercial use and requires substantial GPU infrastructure. Krea's separate API balance is not included in app-plan compute.
Free
$0/month
A trial tier with daily compute and full access to Krea's real-time models.
- 100 compute units per day
- No credit card required
- Limited access to other image, video, 3D, lipsync, upscaling, and LoRA tools
Basic
$9/month
Entry paid plan for commercial work and broader creative-tool access.
- 5,000 compute units per month
- Commercial license
- Selected video models
Pro
$35/month
Higher-compute plan with the complete hosted video model catalog and workflow tools.
- 20,000 compute units per month
- Access to all video models
- Nodes, Apps, and workflow automation
Max
$105/month
High-usage individual plan with expanded concurrency and relaxed generations.
- 60,000 compute units per month
- Expanded concurrency and queueing
- Unlimited relaxed generations
Business
$200/month
Shared workspace for growing teams.
- 80,000 compute units per month
- Up to 50 seats
- Private Node Apps and model-access controls
Self-hosted model
$0 license fee for eligible noncommercial use
Inference code and weights are available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, with hardware and operations paid separately.
- NVIDIA GPU with 40GB or more VRAM recommended
- About 30GB of model storage
- Commercial use is not granted by the published license
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Assessment
Krea Realtime strengths and limitations
Where it stands out
- A genuinely interactive alternative to waiting for complete text-to-video renders
- Prompt changes and restyling can happen while frames stream
- Free hosted access to real-time models lowers the barrier to testing
- Published inference code and weights make the system inspectable
- The broader Krea workspace connects realtime ideation to image, video, enhancement, and workflow tools
What to consider
- Krea documents error accumulation and repetitive motion during longer autoregressive generations
- The model can struggle with complex camera movement and may produce more static results from short prompts
- Vendor performance figures were measured on an NVIDIA B200 and will not generalize to every device or hosted workload
- Self-hosting is demanding: Krea recommends at least 40GB of GPU memory plus roughly 30GB of checkpoint storage
- The published CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license does not permit commercial self-hosted use
- Interactive speed does not replace shot-level continuity checks, rights review, or final editing
Compare
Krea Realtime alternatives
The right alternative depends on the specific output, workflow, controls and budget your project requires.
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Krea
Use the main Krea page when you need the full creative suite rather than a model-specific realtime overview.
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Runway Gen-4.5
Consider Runway Gen-4.5 when final cinematic clip quality and production controls matter more than live prompt steering.
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Hailuo AI
Consider Hailuo AI for a more conventional short-form text-to-video and image-to-video workflow.
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Krea Realtime FAQs
What is Krea Realtime?
Krea Realtime is an interactive AI video experience powered by Krea Realtime 14B. It streams generated frames, allows prompt changes during generation, and supports realtime restyling and video transformation.
Is Krea Realtime free?
Yes. Krea's Free plan lists full access to real-time models with 100 compute units per day. Paid plans provide more compute and, beginning with Basic, commercial-use rights.
Can I self-host Krea Realtime 14B?
Yes for uses allowed by its license. Krea publishes weights and inference code under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, recommends an NVIDIA GPU with at least 40GB of VRAM, and notes roughly 30GB of checkpoint storage.
Can I use the self-hosted model commercially?
Not under the repository's published CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, which is noncommercial. Businesses should use Krea's commercial hosted plans or obtain separate permission rather than assume the downloadable model grants commercial rights.
What are Krea Realtime's main limitations?
Krea's own technical report identifies error accumulation, repetitive motion, mode collapse, weaker complex camera motion, and poorer results from short prompts. Long detailed prompts with explicit motion generally work better.
Bottom line
Our Krea Realtime verdict
Krea Realtime is one of the more distinctive AI video ideation tools because the user can direct the result while it is being generated. It is best used for fast visual exploration, live creative experiments, and motion studies; teams producing final client work should still plan for continuity review, higher-control generation, editing, and rights checks.
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