Krea 2 Medium Turbo Review: Fast, Filtered, Priced to Match

The gallery holds published, safe-for-work examples from the Krea 2 Medium Turbo model page. Our content-ladder frames aren't shown; we report those results in prose instead.

Three ages, one light. Three boxers of visibly different ages lean on the ropes of an empty gym at night, lit by one steaming overhead lamp — the frame this page opens on.

A fogged partition, symmetrical. Two figures on opposite sides of a condensation-covered pane, only a pressed palm and one bare shoulder sharp through the fog — the square aspect ratio chosen to match the symmetry of the brief.

A door left ajar. The same available-light hotel-room frame used elsewhere on this line: a woman in an oversized sweater on the edge of a made bed, lit by one bedside lamp.

Grain and downpour. A black-and-white 35mm fashion frame in a torrential downpour on an empty crosswalk, arms flung wide into the rain.

Krea 2 Medium Turbo takes the same style of prompt as the rest of the line — concrete photographic language, one named light source — but symmetrical or geometric compositions are worth stating outright, since our test suggests it can lose track of an asymmetric pose under a busy brief.

1. Symmetry named directly, for a square frame. The prompt behind the fogged-glass image above.

Cinematic film still, steampunk alchemy workshop, square frame. Close: the pressed palm and one bare shoulder are the only parts sharp through the wiped patch; the rest of both bodies is dissolved in vapour. Two figures stand on opposite sides of a fogged glass partition, mirrored poses, warm lamp haze.

Run this prompt on Krea 2 Medium Turbo →

2. Three subjects, one light source, named once. The prompt behind the boxing-gym cover image.

Cinematic film still, boxing gym at night, ringside. Tight on the ropes: sweat sheets down three bare torsos, waistbands rolled low, hand wraps hanging loose off the wrists. Three fighters of visibly different ages lean on the ropes between rounds, one steaming overhead lamp, gold-on-black palette.

Run this prompt on Krea 2 Medium Turbo →

Weak: "Neon sign that says Open 24 Hours." Naming the copy alone, with no note on script or size, is where our test lost the text entirely. Strong: name the exact wording, the script style and where it sits on the wall, then check the render before you use it.

Krea 2 Medium Turbo refused nearly every rung of our content ladder, matching the pattern we saw on Krea 2 Large rather than Krea 2 Medium. Across 16–24 September 2026 runs, L1 Suggestive, L2 Mature themes, L3 Strong and L4 Intense were all refused; our L5 Extreme restraint-and-impact probe was also refused. Only our L5 Extreme cinematic gore probe rendered, which has nothing to do with the rest of the content ladder. The page label is Filtered.

Not tested yet: anime and illustrated styles on the ladder; two-women or two-men scenes above what we ran; whether reference images change the refusal pattern (our ladder runs used text only).

Adults only, in every prompt. Never depict a real, identifiable person without their consent.

The open weights behind this endpoint drew praise for value: one commenter testing local, open-weight image models said it "really punched above its weight class" for its size. It's also the version most discussed on its own Hugging Face page, where the licence — a paid tier above a revenue threshold, plus a requirement that hosts add content filters — drew a blunt verdict: "The model was killed by the license."

That filtering requirement lines up with what we saw directly: this tier refused nearly everything on our content ladder, the same pattern as Krea 2 Large.

• Same weights, less filtered? Krea 2 Medium reached L3 Strong in our tests at $0.03 an image. Our Krea 2 Medium review.
• Same line, built for finishing detail? Krea 2 Large shares the same eight aspect ratios and reference-image input at $0.06. Our Krea 2 Large review.
• A cheap, fast base with a seed? Z-Image Turbo runs $0.01 an image with five preset ratios and repeatable results.
• Want to fine-tune your own LoRA on a similar-class base? FLUX.1 Dev LoRA takes up to three custom LoRA files per request, from $0.018.