# Krea 2 Arrives as a 12B Open-Weights Image Model

> A new text-to-image model ships with a faster Turbo variant and downloadable weights on Hugging Face.

Published by The Open Weights on Jun 18, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/krea-2-qw7c

## Key facts

- Company: Krea
- Model: Krea 2
- Version: 2
- Category: Text → Image
- Modalities: Text → Image
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Parameters: 12B
- Architecture: Krea2Pipeline
- Precision: BF16
- Weights size: 26.3 GB
- Significance: major
- Published: 2026-06-18
- Last verified: 2026-10-13
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Turbo
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/krea-2-qw7c

Krea 2 has landed as a 12-billion-parameter text-to-image model, with the weights available to download on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Turbo). The release pairs the base model with a Turbo variant tuned for faster generation, a now-common split that lets users trade a measure of fidelity for speed when they need quick iterations.

The model is documented in a [technical report](https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report), and it arrives under a custom license rather than a standard permissive one — a detail worth checking before any commercial use. At 12B parameters, Krea 2 sits in the mid-to-upper range for diffusion-style image generators, large enough to aim for strong prompt adherence and detail without demanding the heaviest hardware.

## Why it matters

Open-weights image models remain a competitive and fast-moving space, and a downloadable 12B release gives developers something they can fine-tune, self-host, and build on directly. The two key practical points:

- A standard model plus a **Turbo** variant for latency-sensitive workflows.
- Open weights on Hugging Face, governed by a custom license.

For teams already running open image pipelines, Krea 2 is another option to evaluate against the field. As always with a new release, the real test is how its output quality and speed hold up in hands-on use against established alternatives.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Turbo)

## Sources

- [krea/Krea-2-Turbo](https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Turbo) — Hugging Face, Jun 18, 2026

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