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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.

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OpenArt

Consumer creative AI suite. Text-to-image/video, character consistency, one-click stories. 100+ models including FLUX, Sora 2, Kling 2.6, Ideogram V3, SDXL. Designed for beginners with Magic Prompt auto-rewriting and a unified dashboard.

Pricing model

Pay-per-use
Credits + subscription

Free tier

No
Yes

Access

API
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Cheapest plan

$0.01/mo

Essential4 plans total

Models offered

12

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

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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
  • 100+ premium models in one UI (FLUX, Sora 2, Kling 2.6, Ideogram V3, SDXL)
  • Magic Prompt auto-improves prompts, strong for non-experts
  • Consistent character training built in (5–353 chars/mo by tier)

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
  • No public per-action credit-cost table, costs only visible at checkout in-app
  • Free tier is one-time 40 credits (not recurring), runs out fast
  • Commercial use rights gated behind Advanced ($14.50+/mo annually)

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

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FLUX.2 Klein 9B

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0210/gen

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FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.07/gen

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FLUX.2 Max

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.16/gen

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FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.03/gen

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FLUX.2 Pro

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0750/gen

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Seedream 4

ByteDance

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Nano Banana 2

Google

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Nano Banana Pro

Google

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Midjourney v7

Midjourney

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GPT Image 2

OpenAI

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Recraft V3

Recraft

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Recraft V4

Recraft

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Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

Stability AI

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Z-Image

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FLUX.1 [pro]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.05/gen

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FLUX.1 Dev

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0250/gen

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FLUX.1 Fill [pro]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.05/gen

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FLUX.1 Kontext [max]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.08/gen

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FLUX.1 Kontext [pro]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.04/gen

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FLUX.1.1 [pro]

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.04/gen

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FLUX.1.1 [pro] Ultra

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.06/gen

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FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.0140/gen

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FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.0170/gen

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FLUX.2 Flex

Black Forest Labs · 1K

$0.05/gen

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FLUX.2 Flex

Black Forest Labs · 2K

$0.20/gen

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Veo 3.1

Google

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Kling 3.0 Video Pro

Kuaishou

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Kling 3.0 Video Standard

Kuaishou

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Ray 2

Luma AI

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Magnific Creative Video Upscaler

Magnific

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Sora 2

OpenAI

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Runway Gen-4

Runway

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Grok Imagine Video

xAI

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Last verified

May 7, 2026

May 19, 2026