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FLUX

Black Forest Labs

FLUX is an image generation model line from Black Forest Labs. The latest release is FLUX 3 (23 Jul 2026). This page tracks all 8 FLUX releases since 1 Aug 2024, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →

FLUX 3

ClosedPaidOfficial APICommunity API

Black Forest Labs' first video model and first unified multimodal model: one flow architecture trained jointly on images, video and audio, extendable to robot-action prediction (FLUX-mimic, in testing at Audi). Clips up to 20s with synchronised audio. FLUX 3 Video and FLUX 3 Action shipped in early access; FLUX 3 Image, faster variants and open weights announced to follow

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Community API
Audio
native synchronised audio
Max duration
20s

Early access 2026-07-23; FLUX 3 Video generally available 2026-08-05 (BFL claims it beats Seedance 2.0). weights: closed at seeding - BFL has promised open-weight versions later in 2026; flip when a checkpoint lands. Multimodal so it appears on both timelines.

FLUX.2

Partial weightsFreemiumOfficial APICommunity APISelf-hostConsumer app

New generation with unified generation and editing and multi-image input; variants Pro/Flex (closed), Dev (32B open), Klein (Apache 2.0 open)

License
Proprietary (Pro/Flex); open weights for Dev (32B) and Klein (Apache 2.0)
Availability
Official API, Community API, Self-host, Consumer app

FLUX.1 Krea [dev]

Open weightsFreeCommunity APISelf-host

Anti AI-look photorealism; distilled from Krea 1 (BFL and Krea); open weights for non-commercial use

License
FLUX.1 Dev Non-Commercial License
Commercial use
Restricted
Availability
Self-host, Community API

FLUX.1 Kontext

Partial weightsFreemiumOfficial APICommunity APISelf-hostConsumer app

In-context image editing with character and style consistency; Pro and Max closed API, Kontext [dev] open-weight (non-commercial) followed

License
Proprietary (Pro/Max); FLUX.1 Dev Non-Commercial (Kontext [dev])
Availability
Official API, Community API, Self-host, Consumer app

FLUX 1.1 [pro]

ClosedPaidOfficial APICommunity API

6x faster than FLUX.1 [pro]; improved image quality and prompt following

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Community API

FLUX.1 [dev]

Open weightsFreeCommunity APISelf-host

Open weights, non-commercial; distilled from [pro] with guidance distillation

License
FLUX-dev Non-Commercial License
Commercial use
Restricted
Availability
Self-host, Community API
Parameters
12B

FLUX.1 [schnell]

Open weightsFreeCommunity APISelf-host

Fastest variant; Apache 2.0 - fully open for commercial use; 4-step generation

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Self-host, Community API
Steps
1-4
Parameters
12B

FLUX.1 [pro]

ClosedPaidOfficial APICommunity API

Top-tier quality closed API; outperformed MJ v6 and SD3 on launch benchmarks

License
Proprietary
Commercial use
Allowed
Availability
Official API, Community API

See FLUX in context on the image model timeline, or browse all model families.