FLUX.1 Dev
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- Black Forest Labs
- C · CEO & Politics
- Robin Rombach — Centrist / open-source advocate (Germany-based)
- D · Date
- 2024
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Images
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text→Image
- J · Jurisdiction
- Germany
- K · Key Staffers
- Robin Rombach (CEO, fmr Stability AI)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Image Generation
- N · Safety Issues
- Synthetic media risks: potential copyright/style imitation issues, deepfake or deceptive content misuse, bias in generated outputs, and prompt/NSFW policy bypass attempts.
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free for non-commercial use (open weights, FLUX.1 [dev] Non-Commercial License)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1 [dev] (August 1, 2024), an open-weight 12B-parameter rectified flow transformer for text-to-image, guidance-distilled directly from FLUX.1 [pro] to reach similar quality and prompt adherence more efficiently; BFL said FLUX.1 [pro] and [dev] beat Midjourney v6.0, DALL-E 3 (HD) and SD3-Ultra on visual quality, prompt following, size and aspect variability, typography and output diversity. Weights carry BFL's non-commercial license, but outputs may be used commercially.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @bfl_ai
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Image Generation from Black Forest Labs, released 2024.
Data completeness 85% · Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗
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“FLUX.1 Dev.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/flux1-dev.html
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