FLUX.2 [dev]

Black Forest Labs' large open-weights text-to-image and multi-reference editing model (32B), non-commercial licence.

Where it ranks

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Image generation
Models · Local · 1,000 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)
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Image editing
Models · Local · 1,000 on Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)

Vendor: Black Forest Labs
Family: FLUX [dev]
Released: 25 Nov 2025
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial License
Parameters: 32.2B
GPU memory to run locally: ~24 GB (Model card points to quantized local deployment on RTX 4090/5090-class GPUs (24-32 GB); BF16 weights alone are ~64 GB.)
API price: $0.01 per image (API price listed by Artificial Analysis for "FLUX.2 [dev]": $12 per 1k images; third-party hosted inference; weights are free to download for non-commercial use)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)	1,000	`FLUX.2 [dev]` AA-Image-Editing v2.1 overall; rank 43 of 71, 8882 samples; page shows no last-updated date; anchor model fixed at 1000	18 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)	1,000	`FLUX.2 [dev]` AA Elo anchor (fixed at 1000); AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 44, 17833 samples; page shows no last-updated date	18 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
LMArena Image Edit Arena	1,225	`flux-2-dev` from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (image_edit/latest, overall, published 2026-10-06; rank 43 of 59, 254281 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches	6 Oct 2026	huggingface.co
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena	1,146	`flux-2-dev` from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (text_to_image/latest, overall, published 2026-10-07; rank 38, 77988 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches	7 Oct 2026	huggingface.co