Krea vs Elyumfor Wan 3.0
Elyum charges only the Wan 3.0 takes you keep; Krea bills compute units and does not publish a per-clip price or a credit-back rule for a bad render.
Wan 3.0 is Alibaba's flagship video model. One take can run from 2 to 30 seconds at 1080p, with native sound and dialogue in the same file. You start from a prompt, a still, references, or an existing clip. Reference-to-video takes up to ten stills and five clips on one shot, so face, wardrobe, product, and motion stay locked. You are not stitching five-second fragments or upscaling a shorter generator to fill a 15- or 30-second slot. Elyum's Wan 3.0 page also covers in-place clip edits on the same model.
Price, refunds, and plan gates are what change. The model does not. Elyum prices Wan 3.0 per second by resolution and charges only a keep. Krea folds it into one compute-unit balance. Its model library lists Wan 3.0 as the latest Wan with 30s clips, native audio, and image, video, and audio references, and it does not publish a separate per-clip price. A failed or ugly generation has no published credit-back rule on Krea. Paid Krea plans include a commercial license. The Free plan does not.
Krea is the larger product if you want a real-time canvas, node workflows, 3D, LoRA training, an iOS app, or team seats. Elyum is one web studio and one credit balance across 50+ models. It has no timeline editor, no stock footage, no talking-head avatars of its own, no mobile app, no team seats, and no community feed. If those extras are why you opened Krea, keep Wan 3.0 there. If you also run Seedance on both, there is a separate Krea vs Elyum for Seedance 2.5 page.
Wan 3.0 on Krea
Krea lists Wan 3.0 as the latest Wan with 30s clips, native audio, and image, video, and audio references. It does not publish a per-clip compute cost. Free video access is limited (100 compute units a day, no card). Krea's pricing page sells Basic at $9/mo with 5,000 compute units and selected video models, and Pro at $35/mo with 20,000 units and all video models. Krea does not say whether Wan 3.0 sits in Basic's selected set or only on Pro.
A bad or failed Wan 3.0 render has no published credit-back rule. Krea's refunds and billing docs cover subscription cancellation only when workspace usage is below 650 compute units and fewer than 20 generations that month, processed in 5-10 business days. Monthly plan units do not roll over. One-time compute packs (2,000 to 50,000 units) expire after 90 days. Paid plans include a commercial license; Free does not. Watermark rules are not stated on krea.ai.
Wan 3.0 on Elyum
On Elyum, Wan 3.0 runs 2 to 30 seconds at 480p, 720p, or 1080p from text, image, references, or an edit. Rates are 3 credits per second at 480p, 5 at 720p, and 10 at 1080p. A kept 5s take is 15 credits ($0.15) at 480p, 25 credits ($0.25) at 720p, or 50 credits ($0.50) at 1080p. A kept 15s 1080p take is 150 credits ($1.50).
Every render comes back as a free preview. You KEEP the takes you will download (that is the only moment credits are charged) or KILL the rest for an automatic full refund. A failed generation is never charged. Kills are metered lightly on Free (one kill a month); Plus, Pro, and Ultra kill freely. Kept files download without a watermark and include commercial use. The same studio is available from Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor through Elyum's MCP server and a REST API.
What a Wan 3.0 take costs
| Scenario | Krea | Elyum |
|---|---|---|
| One 5s take you keep | Not published (no per-clip Wan 3.0 compute price) | 15 credits ($0.15) at 480p; 50 credits ($0.50) at 1080p |
| Ten 5s 480p takes, keep two | Not published; billed in compute units | 2 × 15 credits = 30 credits ($0.30) for the two keeps; kills refund on paid |
| A failed generation | Not published; no credit-back rule for failed generations | Never charged |
| Plan needed to access Wan 3.0 | Free video is limited. Plan gate for Wan 3.0 not published. Pro ($35/mo) has all video models. | Free (up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them), no card); previews free |
| Watermark on the file | Not published on krea.ai | None on kept takes |
| Commercial use | Paid plans yes; Free plan no | Included on kept downloads |
Elyum: 1 credit = $0.01, charged only when you keep a take. Krea figures from its own pricing pages and independent reviews, verified 2026-09-07; sources at the end. Full rate card on the Wan 3.0 page.
Where the two differ
Krea uses one compute-unit pool. Per-unit cost is about $0.18 on Basic ($9 / 5,000 units) and varies by plan. Wan 3.0's units per clip are not published. Elyum bills 1 credit = $0.01 at listed per-second rates, about 20% under comparable platforms, already in the listed price.
Elyum previews every take for free. Keep to charge; kill to refund. Failed generations are never charged. Krea has no published policy for crediting failed or bad individual generations. Subscription refunds require under 650 compute units and under 20 generations that month.
Both list Wan 3.0 up to 30 seconds in one pass. Elyum publishes 480p, 720p, and 1080p rates. Krea describes 30s clips, native audio, and image, video, and audio references; it does not publish a Wan 3.0 resolution cap. Seedance 2.5 on Krea tops out at 1080p for video, which is a different model.
Krea ships Nodes and App Builder (Pro+), real-time generation on every plan, an iOS app, LoRA training, upscaling to 22K, and Business seats (up to 50 at $200/mo). Elyum does not have a timeline editor, a mobile app, or team seats. A longer Krea overview lives on the Krea alternative page.
Krea offers a public API with fixed per-resolution USD prices for some image models (Nano Banana 2 at $0.08 / $0.12 / $0.16). Broader per-model API pricing, including Wan 3.0, was not fully listed in the sources checked. Elyum runs the same studio from Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via MCP, plus a REST API.
Krea monthly units do not roll over. One-time compute packs expire after 90 days. Elyum plans are Free (up to 150 credits once (our algorithm may grant them)), Plus $9/mo, Pro $29/mo, and Ultra $69/mo, with top-ups. Pro and Ultra include fair-use unlimited image generation on selected image models, not on Wan 3.0.
Pick Krea when
- You already build in Krea Nodes or App Builder (Pro+) and want Wan 3.0 in the same pipeline as Flux, Kling, Veo, and Seedance.
- You need Krea Realtime, an iOS app, LoRA training, 22K Topaz upscales, or Business team seats. Elyum has none of those.
- You want models added within days of public release. Trustpilot reviewers cite same-day onboarding as a reason they stay.
- Paid Krea plans include a commercial license, and Free still unlocks real-time in-house models (Krea 2, Krea 1, Flux, Z-image, Qwen).
Pick Elyum when
- You pay only for keeps. A 15s 1080p keep is 150 credits ($1.50). Kills refund on paid plans; failed jobs are never charged.
- Per-second rates are listed: 3 / 5 / 10 credits per second at 480p, 720p, and 1080p.
- Free starts with up to 150 credits (our algorithm may grant them) and no card. Previews stay free. Paid plans kill freely. Kept files have no watermark and include commercial use.
- One studio and one credit balance across 50+ models, including Wan 3.0, without a separate compute-unit guess per clip.
Wan 3.0 in three styles, rendered on Elyum
Getting the most out of Wan 3.0
- State duration and a shot list in the prompt (wide establish, insert, hold). Wan 3.0 will hold one take up to 30s at 1080p. If you omit the beats, a long clip often drifts into a second action you did not ask for.
- Write dialogue, speaker, and room tone in the prompt. Wan 3.0 puts sound in the same file as the picture. There is no second audio pass. If you need a quiet bed or a specific line, put it in the text.
- Spend the reference budget on purpose. Ten stills and five clips can sit on one shot. Use stills for face, wardrobe, and product. Use clips for gait, camera path, or hand action. Do not upload five near-duplicate portraits; that wastes slots the model could use for motion lock.
- For an existing clip, use Wan 3.0 as an edit, not a full regen. Say what must stay (face, framing, product) and what must change (wardrobe, line, ending). A full text-to-video retry will not keep the same continuity.
- Name the camera once and keep it. 'Slow dolly in, 35mm, locked horizon, no whip pans' is enough. Stacking three camera moves in a 15s prompt is how you get a jittery middle third on a long 1080p take.
- If character lock slips, drop a still of the face and a still of the wardrobe into the same generation. Do not describe the person in prose and hope the five-clip slot will invent identity. Product shots need one clean packshot still plus one motion clip of the hands.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a Wan 3.0 video cost on Elyum vs Krea?
Is Wan 3.0 the same model on both?
What happens to a bad Wan 3.0 take?
Do I need a subscription to use Wan 3.0 on Elyum?
Does Krea watermark Wan 3.0 videos?
Which plan on Krea unlocks Wan 3.0?
- Krea Pricing | AI Creative Tools for Everyone (accessed 2026-09-07)
- Krea Model Library (accessed 2026-09-07)
- Seedance 2.5 AI Video Generator | Krea (accessed 2026-09-07)
- Nano Banana 2 API reference | Krea Docs (accessed 2026-09-07)
- Refunds and Billing | Krea Docs (accessed 2026-09-07)
- Krea Reviews | Trustpilot (accessed 2026-09-07)
- Krea AI Review (2026): Real-Time Canvas, Free-Tier License Trap & Pricing (accessed 2026-09-07)
- Krea AI Pricing 2026: Free, $9 Basic, $35 Pro, $70 Max (accessed 2026-09-07)
- KREA API - AI Image Generation, Upscaling & Video API (accessed 2026-09-07)
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