Rodin by Hyper3D vs Tripo AI vs Luma AI vs Krea
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Rodin by Hyper3D
High-fidelity text/image-to-3D with 4K PBR textures
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Tripo AI
Fast text/image-to-3D mesh generator for game assets
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Luma AI
AI video generation with Dream Machine — and the leading tool for turn...
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Krea
Real-time image generation and design canvas
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | 30 free video generations per month | 100 compute units per day; no commercial licence |
| Paid from | — | — | Plus $30/mo (monthly, $25/mo annual); Pro $90/mo; Ultra $300/mo | $9/month (Basic plan, 5,000 compute units/month, commercial licence included) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | 5m+ registered users (as of August 2024 milestone; current figures reported higher) | 30+ million users across 191 countries (per Krea homepage as of mid-2026 |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | — | Amit Jain, Alex Yu, Olivia Seow, Brandon Trabue | — |
| Verdict | Rodin's Gen-2 model — a 10-billion-parameter engine built by Deemos, a team with SIGGRAPH best-paper recognition for its underlying research — generates in 30-60 seconds and Deemos claims roughly 4x the quality of the pr... |
Tripo turns a sentence or a photo into a textured mesh fast enough to use for rapid prototyping, and reviewers consistently point to that speed — one review put it at 10-100x quicker than modeling by hand — as the main d... |
Luma AI pairs a top-tier NeRF/Gaussian-splatting 3D capture app with Ray 3, a video model built around physically plausible motion — water, cloth and object weight behave correctly, which still separates it from Runway a... |
Krea is a polished creative AI suite best known for real-time image generation — you sketch or prompt and see results update live — plus upscaling, enhancement, and a growing set of generation and editing tools wrapped i... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.