Yes. A new account starts with $2 of credit and needs no card, and every model is open on it. After that you add credit from $5 and pay for each run, with no plan.

Does Leap run Krea's models?

Krea 2 Turbo and FLUX.1 Krea [dev], both priced per megapixel. Krea 1, Krea 2 Medium and Large and the real-time models run on Krea.

Does credit expire on Leap?

Credit you pay for doesn't expire while Leap is offered. On Krea, Basic, Pro and Max units expire at the end of each billing cycle, and extra unit packs after 90 days.

Can I upscale on Leap?

Yes. Recraft Crisp Upscale enlarges an image and keeps its details, Recraft Creative Upscale redraws it at about 16 megapixels, and ByteDance Video Upscaler takes a clip to 1080p.

Can I use Leap from my own app or an AI agent?

Yes. The API and the MCP server spend the same balance as the studio, at the same prices.

Leap vs KreaA Krea alternative, compared

Leap runs Krea 2 Turbo and FLUX.1 Krea in one studio with Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2, Seedream and the top video models, plus one-click recipes for characters, product shots and effects. You pay for each run in dollars, with no plan, and every model is open on any balance.

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How Leap and Krea compare

What you pay, what happens to credit you don't use, and what you get for it, from each one's own pages.

Topic	Leap	Krea
How you pay	Leap: Per run, from a balance in dollars. No plan to pick.	Krea: A plan: Basic $9, Pro $35 or Max from $70 a month for 5,000, 20,000 or 40,000 and more compute units, or Basic $5 and Pro $21 a month billed yearly. Business plans for teams from $50.
Unused credit	Leap: Credit you pay for doesn't expire.	Krea: Basic, Pro and Max units expire at the end of each billing cycle. Business plans can roll over. Extra unit packs expire after 90 days.
Models on each plan	Leap: Every model on any balance, the free credit included.	Krea: Basic opens selected video models, and Pro all of them. The free plan has limited access to image and video models.
Unlimited use	Leap: None. Every run has a price.	Krea: Unlimited relaxed images with its in-house models on Max and Business, once your units run out.
Commercial use	Leap: Leap's Terms say you own what you make, as between you and Leap, from your first run on the free credit.	Krea: Paid plans include a commercial license. The free plan doesn't.
Models	Leap: Krea 2 Turbo, FLUX.1 Krea, Nano Banana Pro, GPT Image 2, Seedream and FLUX, plus Veo, Kling, Seedance, Wan and Hailuo, and voice and music models.	Krea: Its own Krea 1, Krea 2 and Realtime, plus FLUX, GPT Image, Nano Banana, Seedream, Veo, Kling, Seedance, Wan, Runway Gen-4.5 and more.
API and agents	Leap: An API and an MCP server that spend the same balance, at the same prices as the studio.	Krea: A separate pay-as-you-go API with its own balance, topped up from $5. Failed and cancelled API jobs aren't billed.
Starting free	Leap: $2 of credit, no card needed.	Krea: 100 compute units a day, no card needed, without a commercial license.

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Where they differ

On Leap, not on Krea

Every model open on any balance, with no plan to unlock Veo 3.1 or Seedance 2.5.
Credit you pay for doesn't expire, and nothing runs out at the end of a billing cycle.
Commercial use from your first run, the free $2 included.
One balance for the studio, the API and the MCP server.

On Krea, not on Leap

Its own Krea 1, Krea 2 Medium and Large, and Realtime models. Leap runs Krea 2 Turbo and FLUX.1 Krea [dev].
Upscaling up to 22K on paid plans, and video upscaling up to 8K.
LoRA training on your own images, and Nodes for building workflows and apps.
Unlimited relaxed images with its own models on Max and Business.
Models Leap doesn't run, such as Runway Gen-4.5, Vidu Q3 and Luma UNI-1, and an app for iPhone and iPad.

Made on Leap

Real runs, as they came back, each with the model or recipe that made it. Where a price shows, it is about what the runs behind the piece were charged, first frame included.

Rice terraces, redrawn at 16 megapixelsRecraft Creative Upscale
A 480p night-market clip, upscaledByteDance Video Upscaler
A skate clip, redrawn in charcoalLucy Restyle
A studio portrait, relit through venetian blindsIC-Light v2
A rangefinder camera, from one photo to a meshHunyuan3D 2
An autumn main street, turned to a snowy nightFLUX.3 Video Edit
A potter shaping a vase on the wheelNano Banana 2
RiadFLUX.3 Video, $1.95

Switching

Moving from Krea

Where the same job lives on Leap, from a one-photo recipe to the same model.

Krea 2: Krea 2 TurboThe fast open-weight version of Krea 2, for quick ideas.
Edit: Nano Banana ProGemini 3 Pro Image: Google's best for legible text, infographics and edits of up to 6 references.
Enhancer and upscaler: Recraft Crisp UpscaleUpscales with care for small details and faces, under a cent.
Video restyle: RestyleThe same clip, every frame redrawn: claymation, anime, felt puppets or living marble.
Lipsync: sync-3 LipsyncLip-syncs a video of a person to new speech, keeping the face and the shot as filmed. Billed by the length of the video.
3D: Hunyuan3D 2A textured 3D model from one image, as a GLB. Without texture, a plain white mesh costs a third as much.

What it costs

What a run costs on Leap

A new account comes with $2 of credit and no card. The table shows each model's cheapest run and about how many the credit covers. After that you add credit and pay per run, and a run that fails costs nothing.

Model	From	What $2 makes
Krea 2 Turbo	$0.0088	About 227 images
FLUX.1 Krea [dev]	$0.028	About 72 images
Nano Banana Pro	$0.19	About 10 images
Nano Banana 2	$0.057	About 34 images
GPT Image 2	$0.056	About 35 images
Seedream 5.0 Pro	$0.039	About 51 images

Each price is one run at the model's lowest-priced settings, from the live catalog. Larger sizes, longer clips and sound cost more, and the studio shows the exact price before every run. How pricing works.

Questions

Questions people ask

Is Leap free to try?: Yes. A new account starts with $2 of credit and needs no card, and every model is open on it. After that you add credit from $5 and pay for each run, with no plan.
Does Leap run Krea's models?: Krea 2 Turbo and FLUX.1 Krea [dev], both priced per megapixel. Krea 1, Krea 2 Medium and Large and the real-time models run on Krea.
Does credit expire on Leap?: Credit you pay for doesn't expire while Leap is offered. On Krea, Basic, Pro and Max units expire at the end of each billing cycle, and extra unit packs after 90 days.
Can I upscale on Leap?: Yes. Recraft Crisp Upscale enlarges an image and keeps its details, Recraft Creative Upscale redraws it at about 16 megapixels, and ByteDance Video Upscaler takes a clip to 1080p.
Can I use Leap from my own app or an AI agent?: Yes. The API and the MCP server spend the same balance as the studio, at the same prices.

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