Krea 3 ties Nano Banana 2.1 on blind leaderboard, faster and cheaper

Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmannOriginally posted 2026.10.20

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there's an old rule in engineering: fast, cheap, good: pick 2 this has been true for AI image models, until now Krea 3 just tied Google's Nano Banana 2.1 on Artificial Analysis's blind leaderboard (1151 vs 1152), and it edits about 4x faster for less than half the price so now you get all three :)

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