Black Forest Labs (FLUX)

Black Forest Labs (FLUX) is the European AI lab behind FLUX, a family of image and video generation models you can try in a browser playground, integrate through an API or download as open weights to run on your own infrastructure.

What is Black Forest Labs and which models does it offer?

It is the company behind FLUX. Its current generation, FLUX 3, includes a multimodal image model with strong style range and accurate in-image text, a video model with native audio and clips up to 20 seconds, and FLUX 3 Action, an open 7B model for robotics. The FLUX.2 models (pro, max, flex, klein and dev) and FLUX Tools for outpainting and editing remain available.

How can you use the FLUX models?

• A playground to experiment with prompts and transform images in the browser.
• The FLUX API, built for production workloads at scale.
• Open weights licensed for self-hosting, LoRA fine-tuning and customization.
• Enterprise agreements with volume, SLAs and dedicated support.

What can FLUX generate?

Photorealistic or stylized images from text, reference-based editing, outpainting, and videos from text, an image or keyframes, with multilingual speech, effects and ambient sound generated alongside the frames.

Who is Black Forest Labs for?

Developers and product teams adding visual generation to their apps, creative agencies, platforms that need to host their own models and teams building synthetic data for AI training.

Black Forest Labs pros and cons

• Pro: top-tier image quality and strong text rendering.
• Pro: open weights and self-hosting options.
• Pro: pay only for what you generate on the API.
• Con: built for developers rather than as a full creative app.
• Con: commercial use of some open weights requires a license.