
Black Forest Labs (FLUX)
Creator of FLUX image models, sold via pay per image API and licensable open weights.
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What it does
Creator of FLUX image models, sold via pay per image API and licensable open weights.
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Image generation
Creates images from text instructions or reference images with support for complex prompts and accurate text rendering. It scales across resolutions up to 4K.
Use caseA developer sends text prompts and reference images through the API to generate visual assets at chosen resolutions.
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Video generation with audio
Generates clips up to 20 seconds from text, images, or keyframes in multiple shots within a single pass. It creates multilingual speech, sound effects, and ambient background sound alongside visual frames.
Use caseA video creator starts from an image and prompt to produce a multi shot clip with matching multilingual speech and effects.
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Action prediction
Processes visual inputs and text instructions to anticipate real world physical changes and compute robot control commands.
Use caseA robotics engineer feeds visual observations and operational text commands into the model to predict physical execution steps.
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Open weights licensing
Provides downloadable model weights that developers can run locally, customize with fine tuning, and host on their own hardware.
Use caseAn early stage software team downloads model weights to fine tune a custom visual style on a consumer GPU.
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Written from Black Forest Labs's own website, checked . Each feature links to the page it comes from; images are Black Forest Labs's own.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Per | What it includes |
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| API pay as you go | Not listed | Not listed | per image (per megapixel) | FLUX.2 klein from $0.014, pro from $0.03, flex from $0.05, max from $0.07 per image; Kontext pro $0.04 |
| Self hosted licenses (Builder/Platform/Professional/Enterprise/Synthetic Data) | Not listed | Not listed | license | contact sales |
From Black Forest Labs (FLUX)'s own pricing page, checked . Prices are in US dollars per month; "billed yearly" is the monthly price when you pay for a year up front. A few figures (often the yearly price) are derived rather than printed on the page.
Before you pay
- Failed generations cost credits
- No
What Black Forest Labs says
Rejected requests, failed generations and outputs withheld by moderation are not charged.
Source page - Commercial use
- Paid plans only
What Black Forest Labs says
Enterprise The full picture. All models + new releases Custom volume Custom domains & users Permissive commercial use
Source page
Only what Black Forest Labs's own pages state, with the quote behind each answer. Anything they don't publish is left out rather than guessed.
Black Forest Labs video tutorials
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Questions people ask about Black Forest Labs
Is Black Forest Labs free?
No. Black Forest Labs has no free plan.
Does Black Forest Labs charge credits for failed generations?
No, failed generations are not charged. Source
Can I use Black Forest Labs output commercially?
Yes, on paid plans only. Source
Does Black Forest Labs have an API?
Yes.
Are failed generations charged?
Rejected requests, failed generations, and outputs withheld by moderation are not charged. Source
How does the pricing structure work?
It operates on a pay as you go model with no subscriptions or seat fees; users only pay for what they generate. Source
Where this came from
Plans, prices and limits were copied from Black Forest Labs (FLUX)'s own pages and the other sources listed, then checked .
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