Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B Open Weights Model
Summary
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B-parameter open weights model for text-to-image generation and editing with up to 10 reference images. The company says it tops its internal evaluations against larger open models. The FLUX Kommunity License permits free commercial use below $5M annual revenue, and API pricing starts at $0.009 per 1K image.
Key Points
- Black Forest Labs says an INT8 build runs on NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs with as little as 8GB of VRAM through ComfyUI or Diffusers.
- Black Forest Labs says external safety partner Cinder evaluated the checkpoints before release and found fewer vulnerabilities than other open weights models.
- Black Forest Labs says FLUX 3 Image Klein gains 91 Elo in text-to-image over FLUX.2 [klein] 9B with 38% fewer parameters.