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FLUX.1 Schnell
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FLUX.1 Schnell

Open-weights image gen model by Black Forest Labs.

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Best for

Best for builders shipping image generation features who need a permissively-licensed model.

At a glance

Pricing
open-source
Setup time
1 hour
Learning curve
moderate
Last verified
5/25/2026

What we love

  • ✓Top-tier OSS image model
  • ✓Permissive license
  • ✓Fast on consumer GPUs

Where it falls short

  • −Quality slightly below FLUX Pro
  • −Best on Replicate/Fal not local
  • −Requires VRAM for self-host

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

2 tiers

Self-host

$0

perpetual

  • ✓Apache 2.0
  • ✓BYO GPU

Hosted

Usage

per image

  • ✓Replicate
  • ✓Fal.ai

Overview

FLUX.1 Schnell is the fast, Apache-2.0 licensed variant of Black Forest Labs' FLUX image-gen models — generates near-Midjourney-quality images in 4 inference steps. Used as the default open model in many AI apps.

Key features

  • ●4-step inference
  • ●Apache 2.0 license
  • ●12B parameters
  • ●Hugging Face hosted
  • ●Strong text rendering

Best use cases

Product-image SaaS

Power an image-gen feature in a product without licensing fees.

Local sovereign image gen

Run on-prem to keep prompt data private from cloud vendors.

Integrations

Replicate
Fal.ai
Hugging Face
ComfyUI
Automatic1111

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