The company behind the FLUX image models
Introduction
Black Forest Labs, founded by the original Stable Diffusion team, set a new open-source image benchmark with the FLUX family — excellent prompt adherence and quality — and Flux.1 Kontext extended into image editing. The new flag of open-source image generation.
Key Features
- FLUX open and commercial models
- Strong prompt adherence and text rendering
- Kontext image editing
- API and weights both available
- Fast community ecosystem
Pros
- The new open-source quality benchmark
- Excellent text rendering
Cons
- Large variants need serious VRAM locally
Pricing
Open weights free (some license limits); APIs usage-based.（See official site for current pricing）
FAQ
Local VRAM for FLUX?
dev from 12GB+; quantized versions lower.
Commercial license?
schnell (Apache2) commercial OK; dev has revenue limits.
FLUX vs MJ quality?
FLUX leads realism and text; MJ leads artistic style.
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