Using FLUX.1 [schnell] on fal API

Quick Start

1. 1
   Create an account at fal API and generate an API key.
2. 2
   Use the fal API SDK or REST API to call fal-ai/flux/schnell — see the documentation for request format.

Code Examples

About fal API

fal serves asynchronous and real-time model APIs on its infrastructure with queue handling, automatic scaling, SDK and HTTP access, and model-specific output-based billing. Its public catalog includes first-party and partner-hosted endpoints across image, video, audio, vision, and 3D generation; model cards expose the applicable schema, pricing, and license information.

fal API is a developer platform for calling a large catalog of production-ready image, video, audio, vision, 3D, and multimodal generation models through a unified API surface.

Pricing on fal API

Capabilities

About FLUX.1 [schnell]

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).