Krea 2 Goes Open Weights: Raw for Fine-Tuning, Turbo for Local 2K Images

Krea has released the open weights for Krea 2, its in-house foundation image model, splitting the release into two checkpoints aimed at different jobs. Both are available to download now from Hugging Face.

• Krea 2 Raw is an undistilled checkpoint built as a base for fine-tuning and post-training.

• Krea 2 Turbo is a distilled, post-trained model that generates images at 2K native resolution and runs on consumer hardware.

• Krea says the license allows individuals and small companies to use both models commercially.

The company frames the two-model split with a simple instruction in its announcement: train on Raw, generate with Turbo.

Raw is an undistilled mid-training checkpoint meant to be fine-tuned

Krea 2 Raw is a mid-training checkpoint captured while the company was training Krea 2 Medium. Because it ships without distillation, fine-tuning, or post-training, Krea positions it as the model builders should start from when they want to fine-tune or post-train their own variant.

Krea's technical report describes K2 Raw as "an undistilled model without any post-training." That lack of post-training leaves the base behavior intact for teams that want to adapt the model rather than use it as shipped.

Turbo is distilled for fast 2K generation on consumer hardware

Krea 2 Turbo is the distilled and post-trained counterpart, built from Krea 2 Medium. Krea says it produces diverse aesthetics quickly at 2K native resolution and can run on consumer hardware, which puts local, high-resolution generation within reach of users without datacenter GPUs.

The technical report calls K2 Turbo "a guidance- and timestep-distilled model capable of generating high-quality outputs within a few seconds." Those two distillation methods are what enable the few-second generation the report describes.

The license clears commercial use for individuals and small companies

Krea says its license is flexible enough for individuals and small companies to use the models commercially. Both Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo can be downloaded from Krea's Hugging Face page, where the repositories are listed as Krea-2-Raw and Krea-2-Turbo.

Krea's second open release this year extends its hosted models to downloadable weights

The release moves Krea 2 from a hosted product into downloadable weights. We covered Krea 2 when the company launched it as an in-house foundation model built for aesthetic diversity and style control.

Krea 2 followed the company's first image model, Krea 1. Open releases are becoming a pattern for the company: we also covered Krea open-sourcing Krea Realtime, a 14-billion-parameter autoregressive video model, in October 2025.

Krea 2 lands in a stretch of downloadable image-model releases. Black Forest Labs released the FLUX.2 weights on Hugging Face for use on consumer GPUs.

Ideogram took a similar route, shipping downloadable weights for Ideogram 4.0 for self-hosting and fine-tuning.

What open Krea 2 weights mean for builders and small studios

For teams already building on hosted image APIs, the two-checkpoint split maps onto two distinct workflows: Raw for anyone training a custom model on their own data, and Turbo for fast generation that can run locally instead of through a paid endpoint. The commercial license terms for individuals and small companies lower the barrier for independent creators and small studios to put either model into production work. With both checkpoints live on Hugging Face, the open weights are available to test against existing pipelines now.