LLM Reference

FLUX.1 [schnell]

Released
2024-08-01
Last refreshed
2026-07-10
Status
Researched 135d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: non-commercialMultimodalVision

FLUX.1 [schnell] is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision
  • Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
FLUX.1
Released
2024-08-01
Parameters
12K
Architecture
Diffusion Transformer
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Open weights
License
NoncommercialCommercial use: non-commercial
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Created by

Unhinged AI image generation

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Founded 2024
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 3 routes · Cloudflare Workers AI

About

FLUX.1 [schnell] is Black Forest Labs' fastest text-to-image model, designed for personal use and local development. A distilled variant of the FLUX.1 architecture, it generates high-quality images in just 1–4 inference steps, achieving sub-second latency on inference APIs. Open-weight model available on HuggingFace under the FLUX.1-schnell license (permissive for non-commercial personal use).

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 3

Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Cloudflare Workers AI--
ServerlessPartial
fal API--
ServerlessPartial
Prodia--
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.