Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)

Krea 2 Medium Turbo vs Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct benchmark

Name: Krea 2 Medium Turbo vs Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct AI benchmark comparison
Creator: CompareLLM
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Comparing verified benchmark accuracy, speed, and token pricing between Krea 2 Medium Turbo and Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct. Review the complete breakdown below to determine which model best fits your performance and budget requirements.

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Executive Verdict Summary

Krea 2 Medium Turbo holds empirical advantage (0 of 0 metrics)

Coding / SWESWE-bench

Krea 2 Medium TurboTop code solve rate

ReasoningGPQA / Live

Krea 2 Medium TurboTop logical accuracy

Best Value$/1M Tok

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructLowest API billing cost

Speed / TokTok/Sec

Krea 2 Medium TurboFastest stream rate

Krea

Krea 2 Medium Turbo

Sub-2 second interactive generation engine delivering ultra-affordable $15/1k image generation.

Turbo / $15/1kImg Elo 1,223$15/1k imgs

Alibaba

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

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Krea 2.0 Lineage & Sibling Variants

2 models

Currently comparing Krea 2 Medium Turbo vs Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct. Alternative family tiers available.

Active: Krea 2 Medium Turbo

Krea 2 Large$60/1k

Top Rival Showdowns for Krea 2 Medium Turbo

All Matchups

Compare vs:vs GPT Image 2 (High)vs Reve 2.1 vs Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)vs FLUX.2 [max]vs Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)

Image Quality Leader

No shared data

Single model data

Generation Speed Leader

No shared data

No latency data

Value per Dollar Leader

No shared data

Unpriced

Overall Matchup Breakdown

Category wins across reasoning intelligence, generation speed, and token cost.

Krea 2 Medium Turbo (5)vsQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (0)

Krea 2 Medium Turbo: 5W (100%)Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: 0W (0%)

← Krea 2 Medium TurboQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct →

🏆Krea 2 Medium Turbo Leads(3/3)

Visual Quality & Adherence

Arena Preference Elo, prompt fidelity & typography score

Benchmark

Krea 2 Medium TurbovsQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Image Elo

1,223vs—

Prompt adherence

89.8%vs—

Text rendering

87.5%vs—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo: 3WQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: 0W

🏆Krea 2 Medium Turbo Leads(1/1)

Generation Latency

Time to render full-resolution image snapshot (seconds)

Benchmark

Krea 2 Medium TurbovsQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Generation time

1.5svs—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo: 1WQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: 0W

🏆Krea 2 Medium Turbo Leads(1/1)

Cost Efficiency

API inference cost per 1,000 generated images

Benchmark

Krea 2 Medium TurbovsQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Price per 1k images

$15/1kvs—

Krea 2 Medium Turbo: 1WQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct: 0W

Side-by-Side Benchmark Matrix

Krea 2 Medium TurboQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Image Elo

Krea 2 Medium Turbo1,223

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Generation time

Krea 2 Medium Turbo1.5s

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Price per 1k images

Krea 2 Medium Turbo$15/1k

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Prompt adherence

Krea 2 Medium Turbo89.8%

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Text rendering

Krea 2 Medium Turbo87.5%

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Benchmark	Krea 2 Medium Turbo	Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct	Advantage Delta
Image Elo	1,223 seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Generation time	1.5s seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Price per 1k images	$15/1k seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Prompt adherence	89.8% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Text rendering	87.5% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—

Workload Cost & Savings Calculator

Simulate monthly production API costs in USD (US Dollar).

Save 100% with Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Monthly Image Production Volume25k images / month (25000 imgs)

Quick Presets:

Krea 2 Medium Turbo$375.00 / mo

Rate: $15/1k

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct$0.00 / mo

Rate: $0/1k

Estimated Cost Delta

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is estimated to save $375.00/month ($4,500/year).

Based on 25k images generated

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatinsufficient data

Need list prices.

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGinsufficient data

Need context sizes.

Screenshots / visionKrea 2 Medium Turbo

Krea 2 Medium Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	insufficient data	Need list prices.
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	insufficient data	Need context sizes.
Screenshots / vision	Krea 2 Medium Turbo	Krea 2 Medium Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

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LIVE BENCHMARK

Krea

Krea 2 Medium Turbo

Elo n/a

SWE-bench—

Speed (tok/s)—

Input / 1M Tokens$15/1k

Output / 1M Tokens$15/1k

Alibaba

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Elo n/a

SWE-bench—

Speed (tok/s)262k

Input / 1M Tokens$0.1/1M

Output / 1M Tokens$1.1/1M

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Krea 2 Medium Turbo or Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?: We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.
Which is better at coding, Krea 2 Medium Turbo or Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?: SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.
Which is cheaper to run in production?: List prices are missing for at least one model.
Which is faster, Krea 2 Medium Turbo or Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?: We do not have TTFT for both models.
Which has the larger context window?: Context window is missing for at least one model.
Can I self-host either model?: Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.
Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?: No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.
What does preference Elo mean on this page?: Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Krea 2 Medium Turbo and Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

Similar Head-to-Head Comparisons

All Krea 2 Medium Turbo matchups →|All Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct matchups →

Krea 2 Medium Turbo vs Krea 2 Large (previous krea)

Side-by-Side Benchmark Matrix

Krea 2 Medium TurboQwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct

Image Elo

Krea 2 Medium Turbo1,223

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Generation time

Krea 2 Medium Turbo1.5s

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Price per 1k images

Krea 2 Medium Turbo$15/1k

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Prompt adherence

Krea 2 Medium Turbo89.8%

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Text rendering

Krea 2 Medium Turbo87.5%

Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct—

Benchmark	Krea 2 Medium Turbo	Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct	Advantage Delta
Image Elo	1,223 seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Generation time	1.5s seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Price per 1k images	$15/1k seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Prompt adherence	89.8% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Text rendering	87.5% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatinsufficient data

Need list prices.

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGinsufficient data

Need context sizes.

Screenshots / visionKrea 2 Medium Turbo

Krea 2 Medium Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	insufficient data	Need list prices.
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	insufficient data	Need context sizes.
Screenshots / vision	Krea 2 Medium Turbo	Krea 2 Medium Turbo is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Krea 2 Medium Turbo or Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?

We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.

Which is better at coding, Krea 2 Medium Turbo or Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?

SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.

Which is cheaper to run in production?

List prices are missing for at least one model.

Which is faster, Krea 2 Medium Turbo or Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct?

We do not have TTFT for both models.

Which has the larger context window?

Context window is missing for at least one model.

Can I self-host either model?

Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.

Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?

No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.

What does preference Elo mean on this page?

Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Krea 2 Medium Turbo and Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.