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Flux-1-Schnell vs FLUX.2 [Flex]

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Flux-1-Schnell
black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell
FLUX.2 [Flex]
black-forest-labs/flux-2-flex
Provider
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs
Family
FLUX
FLUX
Modality
image
image
Context window
Max output
Released
2024-08-29
2026-05-27
License
Open-weight
Open-weight
Per image
$0.0008 /img
$0.0000 /img
Tools
Streaming
Vision
JSON mode
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Batch API
Try it
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Flux-1-Schnell
black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell
Full spec →

FLUX.1 [schnell] is a 12 billion parameter rectified flow transformer capable of generating images from text descriptions.

Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art
FLUX.2 [Flex]
black-forest-labs/flux-2-flex
Full spec →

FLUX.2 [flex] is Black Forest Labs' fine-grained control variant of FLUX.2 — exposes tunable inference steps, guidance, and prompt upsampling for typography-heavy and production workflows.

Strengths
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Creative control
Use cases
Marketing assetsProduct mockupsConcept art

Compare with another

Flux-1-Schnell vs Flux-2-Klein-9b
black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell · black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-9b
FLUX.2 [Flex] vs Flux-2-Klein-9b
black-forest-labs/flux-2-flex · black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-9b
Flux-1-Schnell vs Flux
black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell · deepgram/flux
FLUX.2 [Flex] vs Flux
black-forest-labs/flux-2-flex · deepgram/flux
Flux-1-Schnell vs Flux-2-Klein-4b
black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell · black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-4b
Flux-1-Schnell vs Flux-2-Dev
black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell · black-forest-labs/flux-2-dev
FLUX.2 [Max] vs Flux-1-Schnell
black-forest-labs/flux-2-max · black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell
FLUX.2 [Pro] Preview vs Flux-1-Schnell
black-forest-labs/flux-2-pro-preview · black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell
FLUX.2 [Flex] vs Flux-2-Klein-4b
black-forest-labs/flux-2-flex · black-forest-labs/flux-2-klein-4b
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Flux-1-Schnell
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="black-forest-labs/flux-1-schnell",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# FLUX.2 [Flex]
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="black-forest-labs/flux-2-flex",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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