Anima vs Krea
This comparison exists because both are filed as design tools, and if you arrived here weighing one against the other, the useful answer is that you probably do not have to choose. Anima converts Figma designs into production code across React, HTML, Vue and Tailwind. Krea generates images, video and 3D from 64+ models with a real-time canvas. They sit next to each other in a category listing and almost nowhere else.
Anima or Krea?
Pick Anima if Pick Anima if you have Figma files and need working code out of them. That is the whole job it does, and it covers React, HTML, Vue and Tailwind. Be aware that bidirectional sync, its most-praised feature, is also the one most often described in G2 reviews as buggy, and that plans reach $500/mo at the top.
Pick Krea if Pick Krea if you need to make images, video or 3D assets. It aggregates 64+ models including Flux, Veo 3.1, Runway, Kling and Sora alongside its own, and the real-time canvas at sub-50ms is genuinely fast. It starts at $9/mo with a free tier of 100 compute units a day, so it is cheap to try.
Pricing, plan by plan
Every plan each vendor publishes, monthly and yearly where both are offered.
Anima
Krea
Pros and cons
From each tool's full review, written from the same checked facts.
Anima
- Anima builds a working app from a prompt, then lets you keep refining the design, features and flow visually.
- It converts a screenshot into code, and can clone a live website by importing multiple pages into an editable design.
- A live interactive preview lets you test the app as you build, with navigation between the screens in your project.
- Importing an existing Figma design system lets prompts generate new screens that stay on-brand.
- Generated code exports as React, HTML or Tailwind CSS, and can be edited directly or pushed to GitHub.
- An API and MCP server let coding agents such as Bolt.new and Replit call on Anima directly.
- Code you generate is yours to keep, with no claim placed on it by Anima's terms.
- Anima has no template library to start a project from.
- There is no real-time co-editing; team members can only fork a playground to work independently.
- The free plan is capped at 5 chat messages, 5 Figma imports or website clones, and 5 code generations a day.
- Starter, the cheapest paid plan, gives only 100 monthly chat messages and 50 monthly code generations.
- SSO is only available on the Enterprise plan, which starts at $500 a month paid annually.
- Anima trains its AI on anonymized customer data by default, though this can be switched off.
Krea
- Krea's free plan gives 100 compute units a day with no credit card required, full access to the real time image models.
- It includes current third party models: Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-IMG-2 and Flux 2.
- Pro and up plans include unlimited relaxed generation on the Krea 2 image family once your compute units run out.
- Krea Nodes lets you chain models and processing steps into a visual workflow, with a Nodes Agent that can build it from a plain language request.
- Business and Enterprise plans cover up to 50 seats at one flat price rather than a per seat charge.
- Krea is SOC 2 compliant and states GDPR compliance.
- Video clips can be extended past their initial length with an additional generation.
- The free plan cannot generate video at all; video concurrency is set to zero.
- The free plan has no commercial license, so free output is not cleared for commercial use.
- Whether Krea's standard terms allow training on your content is not clearly stated; a no-training clause is sold separately as a Business add-on.
- Only Krea's own image models get unlimited relaxed generation; every other company's model always spends credits.
- SAML SSO is limited to Business and Enterprise plans.
- Max and Business list a default credit allowance, but the real price and credits scale with a usage slider, so the sticker price alone doesn't fix what you'll pay.
If you genuinely are choosing between them
Then the question is which end of the process you are stuck at. Design assets that need to become a working interface point to Anima. Nothing to design with yet points to Krea. There is no meaningful overlap in what they produce.
The catch on each
Anima's bidirectional sync is both the reason to buy it and its most reported weakness. G2 reviewers praise the concept and describe the execution as unreliable. Test it against a real file before you rely on it in a workflow, and note that pricing climbs to $500/mo.
Krea's pricing takes more work to understand than it should. Compute units, tiers and per-model costs interact in a way that makes it hard to predict a monthly bill from the pricing page. The free tier of 100 units a day is the practical way to calibrate what you will actually use.
Scores, for what they are worth
Krea scores 8.0 with us and Anima 6.8, but they are scored against different criteria for different jobs. Do not read that gap as one being better than the other at anything you would use both for, because there is nothing you would use both for.
Side by side
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2017 | 2022 |
| HQ | Tel Aviv Israel / New York USA | San Francisco, USA |
| AI model | Proprietary (integrates with Claude/ChatGPT) | Krea 1, Krea 2, Krea 2 Turbo (own), plus 61 other companies' image and video models incl. Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Seedance 2.0 |
| User base | 1.8M+ | 40M+ users from 191 countries |
| Platforms | Web, Figma Plugin | Web, iOS |
| Languages | English primarily | Multi-language prompt support (any language per homepage copy) |
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes — 5 monthly chat messages, 5 code generations, 5 Figma imports included in Free plan | No (free plan available) |
| Starting price | $25/mo (Starter) | $35/mo - Pro |
| Enterprise | Starts at $500/mo (annual billing) | Custom — Enterprise plan with custom compute packages, priority support, SLA, audit logs, Slack connect |
| All plans | Free — $0 Starter — $25/mo per seat Pro — $50/mo per seat Business — Starts at $180/mo Enterprise — Starts at $500/mo (annual) | Pro — $35/mo Max — $105/mo Business — $200/mo |
| Positioning | ||
| Best for | Developers who need design files turned into functional prototypes that run as real code | Designers who want one of the broadest model menus, plus a node canvas, an AI agent and an API |
| Differentiator | Anima uniquely bridges Figma and live production-ready code via AI, allowing designers to clone websites, prototype with AI chat, and deploy apps — all without writing code or configuring a backend. | Krea consolidates 64+ leading AI models for image, video, 3D, and real-time generation into one subscription with industry-leading inference speed (sub-50ms real-time) and 22K upscaling. |
| Competitors | Locofy, Framer, Webflow, Bolt.new, Lovable, Builder.io | Magnific, Higgsfield, OpenArt, Scenario, Midjourney |
| Features | ||
| Animation Support | ✓ | — |
| API Access | ✓ | — |
| Aspect Ratio | — | ✓ |
| Background Removal | ✕ | ✓ |
| Batch Generation | — | ✓ |
| Brand Kit | ✓ | — |
| Commercial Rights | — | ✓ |
| ControlNet | — | ✓ |
| Image Animation | — | ✓ |
| Image Reference | — | ✓ |
| Image to Image | — | ✓ |
| Inpainting | — | ✓ |
| Logo Generation | ✕ | — |
| LoRA Support | — | ✓ |
| Presentation Design | ✕ | — |
| Print Ready | ✕ | — |
| Private Generations | — | ✓ |
| Prompt Customization | — | ✓ |
| Social Templates | ✕ | — |
| Style Controls | — | ✓ |
| Team Collaboration | ✓ | — |
| Text to Image | — | ✓ |
| Text to Video | — | ✓ |
| UI Wireframe | ✓ | — |
| Upscaling | — | ✓ |
| Video Style Transfer | — | ✓ |
| Video Upscaling | — | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| Adobe Export | ✓ | — |
| API Access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Figma Export | ✓ | — |
| Google Slides | ✕ | — |
| Key Integrations | Figma (plugin), Bolt.new, Claude (Claude Design integration), ChatGPT, MCP server, custom domain publishing | Krea API, Krea Nodes (workflow automation), Node Apps (shareable workflows), Analytics API (Enterprise), iOS app |
| Shopify | ✕ | — |
Anima vs Krea: common questions
Is Anima an alternative to Krea?
No. Anima converts Figma designs into production code. Krea generates images, video and 3D. They appear together because both are classified as design tools, not because they do similar work.
Which is cheaper?
Both have free plans. Krea starts at $9/mo with 100 free compute units a day. Anima has a free tier and paid plans that reach $500/mo at the top end.
Does Anima produce code you can actually ship?
It targets production-ready output across React, HTML, Vue and Tailwind. The feature to scrutinise before committing is bidirectional sync, which G2 reviewers frequently report as buggy despite it being the main draw.
