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Black Forest Labs

Black Forest Labs is the lab behind the FLUX image-generation family, including FLUX.2 Pro, FLUX.2 Max, FLUX.1 Kontext, and FLUX [schnell]. Going direct to BFL's API can beat hosted resellers (fal, Replicate) by 15-30 percent for production volume.

MiniMax

MiniMax pay-as-you-go API platform. Video generation via Hailuo models (2.3 / 2.3 Fast / Hailuo-02), image generation via image-01, plus speech and LLM endpoints. Developer-facing alternative to the Hailuo consumer subscription.

Pricing model

Pay-per-use

Free tier

Access

API

APIWeb UI

Cheapest plan

$0.01/mo

$0.00/mo

Models offered

FLUX.1 Dev, FLUX.1 Fill [pro], FLUX.1 Kontext [max], FLUX.1 Kontext [pro], FLUX.1 [pro] +7 more

MiniMax Hailuo 02, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast, MiniMax Image-01, MiniMax Music 2.6 +4 more

Pros

Direct API pricing 15-30 percent below hosted resellers at volume
Full FLUX.2 family available. Pro, Max, Kontext, schnell
Credit-based, 1 credit = $0.01, transparent cost model

Cons

No managed UI, pure API, requires integration work
No free tier, pay-as-you-go from first credit
Cold start higher than fal.ai for spiky workloads

Model availability

Every model offered by at least one selected tool, plus trending models (marked ) shown even when neither tool hosts them. A · means that tool does not host the model.

FLUX.2 Klein 9B

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0150/gen

FLUX.2 Klein 9B

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0210/gen

FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.07/gen

FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.16/gen

FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.03/gen

FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0750/gen

Seedream 4

ByteDance

Nano Banana 2

Google

Nano Banana Pro

Google

Midjourney v7

Midjourney

GPT Image 2

OpenAI

Recraft V3

Recraft

Recraft V4

Recraft

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

Stability AI

Z-Image

FLUX.1 [pro]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.05/gen

FLUX.1 Dev

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0250/gen

FLUX.1 Fill [pro]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.05/gen

FLUX.1 Kontext [max]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.08/gen

FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.04/gen

FLUX.1.1 [pro]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.04/gen

FLUX.1.1 [pro] Ultra

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.06/gen

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0140/gen

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0170/gen

FLUX.2 Flex

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.05/gen

FLUX.2 Flex

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.20/gen

MiniMax Image-01

MiniMax · 1K

$0.0035/gen

Veo 3.1

Google

Kling 3.0 Video Pro

Kuaishou

Kling 3.0 Video Standard

Kuaishou

Ray 2

Luma AI

Magnific Creative Video Upscaler

Magnific

Sora 2

OpenAI

Runway Gen-4

Runway

Grok Imagine Video

xAI

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 480p

$0.0167/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 02

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0467/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0817/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 720p

$0.0317/sec

MiniMax Hailuo 2.3 Fast

MiniMax · 1080p

$0.0550/sec

Minimax Music

MiniMax · music

$0.03/gen

Minimax Music 2.5

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Music 2.6

MiniMax · music

$0.15/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD

MiniMax · music

$0.10/gen

MiniMax Speech 2.8 Turbo

MiniMax · music

$0.06/gen

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May 7, 2026

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