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Black Forest LabsFLUX 3 familyCurrentVideo generationReleased 19 Oct 2026

FLUX 3 Max

fal’s post-trained, low-latency edition of Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 Video, with native audio. Call it through fal’s queue API, e.g. fal.subscribe("blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/text-to-video", { input: { prompt, duration, aspect_ratio, generate_audio } }).

Model idblackforestlabs/flux-3-max/text-to-video

Price$0.0425 per second 720p

Checked25 October 2026

Where it stands

No newer video generation model in our registry yet.

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Before it from Black Forest Labs
FLUX 323 Jul 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

3 ways to use FLUX 3 Max, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for FLUX 3 Max
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
fal blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/text-to-video fal.ai
fal blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/image-to-video fal.ai
fal blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/keyframes-to-video fal.ai

Pricing

Prices for FLUX 3 Max
Per second 720p$0.0425
Per second 1080p$0.0725

As published: “USD per second of output video on fal, 75% launch discount (Oct 15 - Nov 7, 2026); list price after Nov 7: 0.17/s 720p, 0.29/s 1080p. Text-to-video and image-to-video same rate”.

Source: fal.ai, checked 25 October 2026.

Specs

Input
Text and images
Output
Video and audio
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
19 October 2026
Status
Current
Type
Video generation

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Fast frontier-quality video

    fal says a 10 s 720p clip takes about 12.45 s, versus 126.44 s for FLUX 3 and 277.80 s for Seedance 2.5 (fal’s own measurement).

    Source: fal.ai

  • Post-trained FLUX 3 Video by fal Research

    Not a separate BFL tier: fal Research post-trained BFL’s FLUX 3 Video with BFL for prompt adherence and lower latency; +50 Elo over FLUX 3 on AA image-to-video per fal.

    Source: x.com

  • Keyframes-to-video

    Up to ten images placed at chosen frame indexes, with a prompt describing the motion between them; 5-20 s, 720p or 1080p, audio on by default.

    Source: fal.ai

Notes

Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard (read 2026-10-25): #6, Elo 1155, listed as ‘FLUX 3 Max (720p)’ via fal; AA price 2.55 USD per minute (= fal promo 0.0425/s at 720p). Distinct from flux-3 (BFL’s own FLUX 3 Video, AA t2v #8, Elo 1145, BFL API flux-3-video). Announced by fal on X 2026-10-19 (444k views by 2026-10-25); fal’s pricing page dates the promo from Oct 15. Not seen on BFL’s own API or pricing page, nor on OpenRouter; served only by fal as far as checked. No timeline entry.

Artificial Analysis text-to-video (with audio) leaderboard, read 2026-10-25: rank 6, Elo 1155 (https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video). See also the base model, FLUX 3 (model id flux-3).

Sources: https://fal.ai/flux-3-max · https://fal.ai/models/blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/text-to-video · https://fal.ai/models/blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/keyframes-to-video · https://x.com/fal/status/2112251022047412492