Black Forest Labs · image model · Released Aug 1, 2024FLUX.1 [dev]
Open-weight FLUX.1 text-to-image model for high-quality guidance-distilled generation.
- Arena score
- 969#78 of 82 · text to image
- Starting price
- —Not published
- Largest size
- —Not published
- References
- —Text prompts only
How it rates and what it costs
- Text to image arena
- 969 ±4#78 of 82 · 49,221 votes
Arena scores come from blind, side-by-side human votes on the same prompts (higher is better; ± is the 95% range). Boards updated Oct 26, 2026.
The details
- Lab
- Black Forest Labs
- Type
- Image model
- Released
- Aug 1, 2024
- Inputs
- Text prompts
- Output
- Images
- Can do
- Text to image
- Availability
- 1 API host
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About FLUX.1 [dev]
How good is FLUX.1 [dev]?
In blind side-by-side votes, FLUX.1 [dev] scores 969 for text to image (#78 of 82). Higher is better; scores within about 8 points of each other are effectively tied.
Who makes FLUX.1 [dev]?
FLUX.1 [dev] is an image model from Black Forest Labs, released Aug 1, 2024.
What can FLUX.1 [dev] do?
FLUX.1 [dev] accepts text prompts and produces images. In practice: text to image.
Is FLUX.1 [dev] open source?
Yes. Black Forest Labs publishes the weights under the FLUX.1 [dev] Non-Commercial License, so you can run it on your own hardware.
Where can I use FLUX.1 [dev]?
It is listed by 1 API host we track.
What are the alternatives to FLUX.1 [dev]?
The closest image models from other labs, by release date, are Ideogram v2 (Ideogram, Aug 21, 2024), Imagen 3 (Google, Oct 15, 2024), Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (Stability AI, Oct 22, 2024) and Recraft V3 (Recraft, Oct 30, 2024).