Krea 2 Large leads on human preference — 1187 vs 1176 Elo (#18 of 151 in the Image Arena). The right pick still depends on style, speed and licensing — details below.
| Human-preference Elo | 1187 | 1176 |
| Arena rank | #18 of 151 | #24 of 151 |
| Category | text-to-image | text-to-image |
| License | commercial | commercial |
By human preference, Krea 2 Large currently rates higher (1187 vs 1176 Elo). Preference votes measure typical output quality; test both on your own prompts for style fit.
Both are text to image models available as hosted API endpoints — Krea 2 Large (krea/v2/large/text-to-image) and Grok Imagine Image (xai/grok-imagine-image).
See the full best text-to-image models ranking.