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Black Forest LabsPreviewVideo generationReleased 23 Jul 2026

FLUX 3

BFL’s first video (+audio) model and multimodal “visual intelligence” foundation. Async API: submit, then poll the returned polling_url.

Model idflux-3-video

Price$0.17 per second

Checked29 September 2026

Where it stands

10newer video generation models since its release

The 5 newest are listed. All video generation models

After it from Black Forest Labs
FLUX 3 Max19 Oct 2026
Weights
Closed weights; access is hosted only.

How to call it

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

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for FLUX 3
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
BFL API flux-3-video https://api.bfl.ai/v1/flux-3-video docs.bfl.ai
Hugging Face (FLUX 3 Action open weights) huggingface.co

Pricing

Prices for FLUX 3
Per second$0.17

As published: “per second of video (HD, text/image-to-video); FHD 0.29, QHD 0.40, UHD 0.80, draft 0.06; continuation 0.41/s HD”.

Source: docs.bfl.ai, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Text, images and video
Output
Video and audio
Context window
Not published
Max output
Not published
Open weights
No
Licence
Proprietary
Released
23 July 2026
Status
Preview
Type
Video generation

What stands out

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

  • Unified image/video/audio/action model

    Single architecture jointly trained on images, video, audio and robot action prediction; each modality said to strengthen the others.

    Source: globenewswire.com

  • Video with native synced audio

    Text/image-to-video up to ~20 s with optional in-sync audio, plus video continuation and video editing (/v1/flux-tools/video-edit-v1).

    Source: docs.bfl.ai

  • FLUX 3 Action for robotics

    Video-prediction engine reused for robot control (FLUX-mimic with mimic robotics, tested by Audi); open-weight Action checkpoints on HF (FLUX Kommunity license).

    Source: docs.bfl.ai

Notes

Action weights: flux-3-action-base/-so101/-droid (HF, 2026-09-22).

curl -X POST https://api.bfl.ai/v1/flux-3-video -H "x-key: $BFL_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"mode":"t2v","prompt":"a fox running through dawn mist","duration":5}'

Sources: https://docs.bfl.ai/flux_3/flux3_overview , https://docs.bfl.ai/quick_start/pricing , https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/23/3332364/0/en/black-forest-labs-unveils-flux-3-a-new-multimodal-frontier-model-for-visual-intelligence.html

Not yet checked against an official source: Early access at launch (2026-07-23); FLUX 3 Image announced ‘in coming weeks’ and open FLUX 3 [dev] planned later in 2026 - not verified as released.