# Krea — Krea 3 Crashes the Top 4: Every Benchmark, Explained

- Company: Krea (krea.ai)
- Announced: 2026-10-20T19:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-3-benchmarks
- Record: https://forck.live/items/25445-krea-3-crashes-the-top-4-every-benchmark-explained
- Subject: Krea 2 / AI creative platform
- Models affected: Krea 3 Ultra, Krea 3 Fast, Krea 3, Nano Banana 2.1, Nano Banana 2, Nano Banana Pro, GPT-Image-2 (Medium), MAI-Image-2.6, Reve 2.0, FLUX.2 [dev]

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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-3-benchmarks:

> Arena, Multi-Image Edit: Krea 3 Ultra is #4 , at 1435±11 , marked Preliminary, on 2,991 votes . Rank spread 4–5 . The page is dated October 19, 2026.

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