FLUX.1
AI Image Generation Germany
Text-to-image model family with open-weight and commercial tiers. Alternative to Midjourney.
Details
FLUX.1 is the text-to-image model family from Black Forest Labs in Freiburg, Germany. The lineup spans open-weight checkpoints (Schnell, Dev) and a commercial Pro tier, with companion models for inpainting and instruction-based editing (FLUX Kontext).
Creatives and platform teams use FLUX via the BFL API, hosted partners, or by self-hosting the open weights. Evaluations typically focus on prompt fidelity, text rendering, photorealism, licensing of the open-weight tiers, and runtime cost when self-hosted on GPUs.
About Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is a generative AI research company based in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. It was founded in 2024 by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Patrick Esser, former Stability AI engineers behind Stable Diffusion. The lab develops the FLUX family of text-to-image and image-editing models, distributed in both open-weight and proprietary tiers.
