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FLUX 3 Image

Black Forest Labs' proprietary flagship image generation and editing model, served via API without public weights.

  • Black Forest Labs
  • Closed
  • Released 1 Oct 2026

Official page

Where it ranks

  • B
    Image generation
    Models · Cloud · 1,116 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)
  • –
    Image editing
    Models · Cloud · no result on this task’s benchmarks yet

Facts

Vendor
Black Forest Labs
Family
FLUX (API)
Released
1 Oct 2026
Weights
Closed: API and apps only
License
proprietary
API price
$0.05 per image (FLUX 3 Image at the bfl.ai pricing-calculator default (1K); higher resolutions cost more)
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Price from bfl.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)1,116FLUX 3 Image
FLUX 3 Image not yet on LMArena (as of 2026-10-07); best FLUX.2 there is flux-2-max (1162); AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 12, 5869 samples; page shows no last-updated date
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai

Where you can use it

Earlier versions

  • FLUX.2 [max] · 16 Dec 2025
  • FLUX.2 [pro] / [flex] · 25 Nov 2025
  • FLUX1.1 [pro] · 2 Oct 2024

Sources