Overview
Black Forest Labs develops the FLUX family of image models and sells them mainly to developers. FLUX.2 [max] scored 1161 on the Arena leaderboard and FLUX.2 [pro] had the most votes of any FLUX model, over 219,000[1]. Its pricing page lists the newer FLUX 3 Image at US$0.048 per image at 1K resolution and US$0.10 at 2K, and FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter model that runs on a single consumer GPU, from US$0.009 at 1K[8]. FLUX.2 [max] costs US$0.07 for the first megapixel[8]. Self-hosting licences start with a Builder tier covering 10,000 images a month[8].
FLUX (Black Forest Labs) strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Transparent per-image API pricing
- Models that can run on the customer's own hardware
Limitations
- Aimed at developers rather than casual users
- Some open-weight variants are licensed for non-commercial use only
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FLUX (Black Forest Labs) alternatives and competitors
Alternatives to FLUX (Black Forest Labs): companies ranked in the same lists.
- ChatGPT Images (OpenAI)
- Bing Image Creator (Microsoft)
Google Gemini (Nano Banana)
Grok Imagine
Reve- Ideogram
Recraft
Krea
Leonardo.Ai
Adobe Firefly
Midjourney
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