{"schema":"postcutoff/model@1","as_of":"2026-10-25T23:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-3-max/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-3-max/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"flux-3-max","name":"FLUX 3 Max","org":"Black Forest Labs","family":"FLUX 3","released":"2026-10-19","status":"current","type":"video-gen","modality_in":["text","image"],"modality_out":["video","audio"],"open_weights":false,"model_license":"proprietary","context_window":null,"max_output":null,"knowledge_cutoff":null,"pricing":{"per_second_720p":0.0425,"per_second_1080p":0.0725,"unit":"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":"https://fal.ai/models/blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/text-to-video"},"price_line":"$0.0425 per second 720p","access":[{"provider":"fal","model_id":"blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/text-to-video","docs":"https://fal.ai/models/blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/text-to-video"},{"provider":"fal","model_id":"blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/image-to-video","docs":"https://fal.ai/models/blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/image-to-video"},{"provider":"fal","model_id":"blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/keyframes-to-video","docs":"https://fal.ai/models/blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/keyframes-to-video"}],"capabilities":[{"name":"Fast frontier-quality video","detail":"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).","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://fal.ai/flux-3-max"},{"name":"Post-trained FLUX 3 Video by fal Research","detail":"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.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://x.com/fal/status/2112251022047412492"},{"name":"Keyframes-to-video","detail":"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.","first":false,"discovered":"launch","source":"https://fal.ai/models/blackforestlabs/flux-3-max/keyframes-to-video"}],"entry":"2026-10-19-flux-3-max-fal","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.","verified":"2026-10-25","body_md":"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 } })`.\n\nArtificial 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).\n\nSources: 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","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-3-max/","standing":{"kind":"video generation","newer_count":0,"newer":[],"before":{"id":"flux-3","name":"FLUX 3","org":"Black Forest Labs","released":"2026-07-23","page_url":"https://postcutoff.com/m/flux-3/"},"after":null,"weights":"closed","licence":"proprietary","licence_permissive":false,"summary":"Closed weights; access is hosted only."}}