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FLUX.1 [schnell] is the “fast” version of the FLUX family from Black Forest Labs. It’s designed to give you amazing results in just 1 to 4 steps, making it ideal for local development and personal use.

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Why use it?

  • Speed: It’s ridiculously fast. Like, “did it even start?” fast.
  • Cheap: Because it requires fewer steps, it’s one of the most cost-effective models available.
  • Commercial Friendly: Released under Apache 2.0, so you can actually use it for your business without a law degree.

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Details

  • Developer: Black Forest Labs
  • Architecture: 12B Parameter Rectified Flow Transformer
  • Strengths: Speed, prompt adherence, decent text rendering.
  • Estimated Cost: ~0.001−0.001 - 0.003 per Megapixel.
  • Example (1024x1024): Fractions of a cent. Your wallet will thank you.
  • Model License: Apache 2.0
  • Generated Images: You own them. Go wild!
Use this for real-time applications where every millisecond counts. If you need hyper-realistic skin textures, you might want its older sibling, FLUX.1 [dev].