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# FLUX.2 [dev]

Black Forest Labs, FLUX.2 family. Status: current. Type: image generation. Released: 2025-11-25.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face |  |  | https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev |
| Hugging Face (NVFP4) |  |  | https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev-NVFP4 |

## Pricing

- Price not published.
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text, image
- Output: image
- Context window: not published
- Max output: not published
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: FLUX Non-Commercial License

## Where it stands

- Newer image generation models in the registry since its release: 23. The 5 newest:
  - GPT Image 2.6 Flare (2026-11-04) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-image-2-6-flare/
  - GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst (2026-11-04) https://postcutoff.com/m/gpt-image-2-6-sunburst/
  - MOSS-Image (2026-10-16) https://postcutoff.com/m/moss-image/
  - FLUX 3 Image Klein (2026-10-15) https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-3-image-klein/
  - Krea 3 (Fast / High / Ultra modes) (2026-10-15) https://postcutoff.com/m/krea-3/
- Before it from Black Forest Labs: FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] / [max] (2025-05-29) https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-1-kontext-pro/
- After it from Black Forest Labs: FLUX.2 [max] (2025-12) https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-2-max/
- Weights are public. Licence: FLUX Non-Commercial License. See the licence for commercial terms.

## What stands out

- 32B open-weight generation + multi-reference editing: 32B open-weight model doing text-to-image, single- and multi-reference editing in one checkpoint; BFL claims it beats all open-weight alternatives. Source: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2
- VLM-conditioned rectified flow transformer: Pairs a Mistral-3 24B vision-language model with a rectified flow transformer for world knowledge and prompt understanding. Source: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2

## Notes

Open weights only (no /v1/flux-2-dev endpoint in BFL API openapi.json); commercial use needs a BFL license (https://bfl.ai/licensing). Hosted by many third parties. Pricing n/a.

Best open-weight FLUX.2 checkpoint for local/self-hosted image generation and editing (large VRAM needs; use FP8/NVFP4 variants on consumer GPUs).

```python
from diffusers import Flux2Pipeline
pipe = Flux2Pipeline.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev").to("cuda")
```

Sources: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-2 , https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-2-dev/