FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
State-of-the-art open and pro image models from the original SD team
Overview
FLUX is a family of high-performance text-to-image models from Black Forest Labs, founded by original Stable Diffusion researchers. It offers open-weight variants (FLUX.1 schnell and dev) alongside a hosted Pro API, praised for photorealism, prompt adherence, and detailed hands and text. It is widely adopted as a base model across the AI image ecosystem.
Developers wanting cutting-edge open-weight quality with an API option for production.
Non-technical users who want a polished consumer UI rather than models and an API.
What people use it for
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