Character consistency is the thing most image models are worst at, because a text prompt is a poor way to specify a face. The fix is to stop describing the person and start attaching them. OpenModels runs an identity model on our own GPUs that takes your character as a reference image and restages them, and the whole technique is a prompt that describes the destination and never the face.
A face is a few hundred small relationships — the distance between the eyes, the width of the nose against the mouth, the shape of the hairline — and none of them survive a trip through an English sentence. Every attempt to hold a character with words alone eventually produces a cousin of the person you meant. The reference image is the only thing carrying the identity, so the job of the prompt is to not interfere with it.
Krea 2 Identity is the model built for that on our own hardware. It is a restaging model: it takes the attached character and puts them somewhere else. It requires at least one image and accepts a second, and it has no text-only fallback — the graph will not run without a character to work from, which is a limitation and also the reason it holds a face better than a general model given the same reference.
Which plan: Krea 2 Identity is open on every plan including Free, on our own GPUs, from ⚡1 an image. Its three recipe chips carry no tier gate either. The hosted alternatives — Nano Banana Pro, Seedream 5.0 Pro, the hosted Qwen edits — open from Starter and are paid in ✦ gold.
| Recipe | Images you attach | What it changes | What it keeps |
|---|---|---|---|
| New outfit | One: the character | Clothing you describe | Face, pose, location, lighting |
| New location | One: the character | Setting, relit to match | Face and outfit |
| Into a scene | Two: the scene, then the person | Places the person in your scene | Face, matched to the scene's light and perspective |
The two-image recipe has an order that matters: the scene goes first and the person second. That is the order the model was trained on, and reversing it is the single most common reason a good result turns into a bad one. The composer labels the slots, and dragging them in the tray renumbers the tokens in the prompt with them.
Open the composer on the identity model — Loads the New location recipe and selects Krea 2 Identity. Attach your character and press Generate yourself.
The hosted models take a different approach: instead of one identity adapter they accept up to six reference images and reason across all of them. Nano Banana Pro at ✦4.7 an image and Seedream 5.0 Pro at ✦2.2 are the two worth trying, both from the Starter plan. Giving them three or four pictures of the same person from different angles is materially better than giving them one, which is the opposite of how the identity model behaves.
There is a ready-made composer preset for this — "Same face, new scene" — which loads a written instruction and ticks Nano Banana Pro, the hosted Qwen Image Edit and Seedream 5.0 Pro together, so one press gives you three attempts at the same restaging to choose between.
Whichever lane you use, keep one canonical picture of the character in a folder and treat it as the source of truth. Every scene should be generated from that picture rather than from the last scene you happened to like, and when you do promote a result to canonical, do it deliberately rather than by drift.
If the character is going to be used for months rather than an afternoon, the honest answer is to stop restaging and train a LoRA on them. That bakes the identity into weights instead of re-deriving it from a photo every time, and it removes the reference image from the loop entirely. It needs the Creator plan and it is metered on GPU time, so it is a real commitment rather than a free upgrade.
Yes. Krea 2 Identity runs on our own GPUs, is allowed on every tier including Free, and starts at ⚡1 an image against a wallet that refills to ⚡20 a day. Its recipe chips carry no tier gate.
The identity graph restages an attached character and has no text-only path. If you want plain text-to-image on the same checkpoint, that is Krea 2 Turbo, which takes no reference images at all and also ignores negative prompts.
One, for the standard restaging recipes. The second slot exists for the two-image case where you supply a scene as well as a person, and the scene goes in first.
For a character you will reuse a lot, yes — it holds identity across angles and lighting that references struggle with. It also costs GPU time, needs at least five training photos and is a Creator-plan feature, so it is not the starting point.
Yes, and it is the same model. Attach the product, describe the setting, and do not re-describe the product itself.