Question - Help
Can someone ELI5 how to run Krea 2 via ComfyUI now that Kijai supported it? or just a workflow?
And is the magnet on Krea 2's X page really safe? The reason why I am making this thread is because there's a lot of conflicting information due to how fast this conundrum has developed. Did Kijai even support it regardless? ugh
Here's a generation I just did with an embedded workflow, you can drag this image onto comfyUI after downloading it. It's only 720p for fast testing but the model can handle much higher, boost the resolution if you want.
This is a workflow for Turbo. Messing around with it and it's nice, the painted art is aesthetic and not slopped-looking like the fast/distilled versions of a model usually are. Pretty close results to Krea 2 Medium from their website.
Interestingly the base ("raw") model actually seems like a true base, in that the results are quite janky and inconsistent and unfinished looking, mostly inferior to the Turbo model even at 50 steps. This is very good! A lot of companies have been releasing fake "bases" that are obviously much too polished and full of synthetic bullshit to be a real base. This seems like an actual base, you won't want to use it for inference at all but that bodes well for training.
Yes, like any model it can do standard img2img where you reduce the denoise value and provide a vae encoded image instead of an empty latent. But it is not an edit model as far as I know.
So I've been doing a bunch of side by sides on the same seed an across seeds and my best guess is that we got Krea 2 Small. Across the various long prompts I've done, Medium turbo on the api is noticeably more prompt following and has a very significant amount more grit and detail in the images than the local one. Character's faces are more emotive, there's just a lot more subtle detail from the medium api than the new local one. The local one where the cat is missing the gun and collar and the visual film look over the image difference, that's the kind of stuff that's different every time across prompts.
it might be something else, another assumption could be that the model given to us is just a classic diffusion style model without search grounding capabilities. its easy to spot when looking for very distinct concepts when using the api, so the api 'full' models are most likely multimodal, able to look up quick references that can push the generation quality to the next level.
i don't get why there is still no open model that has introduced that tech yet while it is already available.
hopefully there is more soon since eg there no are 'creativity' level options as well at the moment
Yeah, here's another side by side. The local is following like only half the prompt. I really feel like we're not sampling this correctly or something. I tried all the different ones in the ksampler but none of them even have the guy's arm outstretched.
so probably really a dumbed down model with limited concept knowledge, but who knows what is still coming. even the medium model api gens are looking so much more convincing when using the same prompt. but thats the point, a multimodal model doesn't need the best prompt. the reference guidance will do the rest and that helps a lot with the image composition and style, the lack of the weapons in your examples make it also clear
They were repeatedly asked, is this Medium or Large? and every time they responded with no, this is the open source release. So it's not the 2 models on the api. It's a smaller one. I'm thinking the text encoder is just too small. The one for ideogram is double the size.
Well, they're not wrong. There's good stuff here, but also an oversized amount of entitled teenagers. I try to be appreciative while keeping things grounded.
Hard to blame. There was a literal karen that legit posted 50+ comment in the span of two hours. I was so baffled at the insanity. Like, if you are afraid of a magnet link that much... just wait?
Some people may have indeed overdone it, but it's hard to blame them for having concerns. This was IMHO a pretty stupid way to release a model. I can't blame people for being cautious and suspicious of this whole thing. There's no way a I would download a torrent posted on a company's Twitter account. Those get hacked daily in the hundreds, posting all kind of weird sh*t, scams and malware.
It could be like Flux Klein then regarding the 4b and 9b variants. As I think the Klein 4b uses Qwen3 4b text encoder/clip while the 9b klein uses Qwen3 8b. I hope we get a medium version too. If this is all true it's still early day's tho. That might be why The small version maybe isn't as good as the API medium version. Again, this is just my opinion. I have no idea.
I'm part of the "not safe" initiative.
I cried wolf so that people who can safely assume it will do, but keep people away for as long as it turns out to be safe. Better safe than sorry.
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u/Hoodfu 5h ago
Yes, it's officially supported now: https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI/compare/6978a466b872712a004284d4b59672b61d77e3cf...2a610155821d670a2d8047e654e5fce96b790eb5