Black Forest Labs
Listed at https://blackforestlabs.ai
Overall Rank #11 ⭐ Consider
❌ Proxy required (AWS US-East + EU-Frankfurt deployment) | 🌍 International
💰 Token Pricing
| Type | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Input | FLUX.2 [pro]: $0.05/MP, FLUX.1.1 [pro]: $0.04/MP, FLUX.1 [schnell]: $0.003/MP, FLUX.1 Fill: $0.05/MP | per million tokens |
| Output | Flat per-megapixel billing, no tier-based markup | per million tokens |
💡 Free Credits:
🤖 Supported Models (8)
FLUX.2 [pro]FLUX.1.1 [pro]FLUX.1 [pro]FLUX.1 [dev]FLUX.1 [schnell]FLUX.1 Fill [pro]FLUX.1 Depth [pro]FLUX.1 Canny [pro]
✨ Pros
- ✓Original FLUX creators: official source of open-SOTA FLUX.1/FLUX.2 image models
- ✓FLUX.2 Pro launched May 2026, text rendering + photorealistic portraits at Midjourney level
- ✓8 endpoints: text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, depth, canny, redux variants
- ✓FLUX.1 [schnell] is Apache 2.0 open-source (12B params), commercial use OK
- ✓Pricing $0.003-0.05/MP, 40-60% cheaper than Replicate/Stability
- ✓Both hosted inference + commercial API: production-safe licensing, no copyright ambiguity
- ✓EU-Frankfurt hosting node available for GDPR compliance
⚠️ Cons
- ×Image generation only — no LLM/chat capability
- ×China access requires proxy (AWS US-East + EU-Frankfurt, no mainland edge nodes)
- ×Strict rate limits on [pro] endpoint (production workloads need enterprise negotiation)
- ×No video generation (unlike fal-ai/Replicate which also serve Kling/Wan)
- ×No Chinese documentation, English prompts give best results
- ×No formal affiliate program (API link is just UTM source tracking)
🎯 Best For
Official FLUX model inference; copyright-safe commercial use; batch image generation; photorealistic portraits + text rendering; SaaS path alongside [schnell] self-hosting