From the source
Krea 3 Ultra landed in the top five of three independent image-editing leaderboards in October 2026, but the boards disagree on its exact rank and the scores are not comparable.
- Arena placed Krea 3 Ultra at #4 on Multi-Image Edit with 1435±11 on 2,991 votes and #8 on single-image Image Edit with 1411±11 on 2,619 votes, both marked Preliminary because the vote counts are small.
- Artificial Analysis put Krea 3 Ultra at #5 with 1151 Elo on AA-Image-Editing v2.1, statistically tied for #3 with Nano Banana 2.1 and MAI-Image-2.6, while Krea 3 Fast reached #11 at 1125 Elo.
- Design Arena ranked Krea 3 (Ultra Thinking) #4 of 51 at 1298 Elo, which it says makes Krea the #2 image-editing lab after
OpenAI.
- The post explains that each board runs blind pairwise votes fitted with a Bradley-Terry model, and that Arena's 1435, Artificial Analysis's 1151 and Design Arena's 1298 sit on different scales, so subtracting one from another does not produce a gap.
- Arena's ± figures become rank spreads, and overlapping spreads such as Krea 3 Ultra's 4–5 against Nano Banana 2.1's 4–5 are treated as a tie.
- Arena added Krea 3 Ultra to both edit arenas on October 20, 2026, while the leaderboard pages are stamped October 19, 2026.
