FLUX 1 Dev is an AI model (prompt to image) available on Artifio.ai through Black Forest Labs. You can run it in our workspace from a single shared wallet and download your outputs.

How much does FLUX 1 Dev cost on Artifio?

FLUX 1 Dev starts at about $0.004 per generation on Artifio.ai. The exact cost is shown in the workspace before you confirm and can vary with the options you select.

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What kind of outputs does FLUX 1 Dev produce?

FLUX 1 Dev is configured for prompt to image workflows in the image category. See the technical parameters below for supported inputs and options.

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FLUX 1 Dev — AI Image Generator

Name: FLUX 1 Dev
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Price: 0.004 USD
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About FLUX 1 Dev

FLUX 1 Dev is the open-weight midpoint of the FLUX.1 text-to-image family that Black Forest Labs launched on 1 August 2024. It is a 12-billion-parameter rectified flow transformer distilled directly from the proprietary FLUX.1 pro, trained with guidance distillation so it runs more efficiently while keeping similar output quality. The weights are public under the FLUX.1 non-commercial license.

At launch Black Forest Labs published benchmark results claiming FLUX.1 pro and dev beat Midjourney v6.0, DALL-E 3 HD and SD3-Ultra on visual quality, prompt adherence, typography and output diversity. On Artifio, FLUX 1 Dev sits in one workspace beside 100+ other models with a single pay-per-generation wallet.

Features

12-billion-parameter rectified flow transformer with multimodal and parallel diffusion transformer blocks and rotary positional embeddings
Trained with guidance distillation and distilled directly from FLUX.1 pro for comparable quality at higher efficiency
Supports varied aspect ratios and resolutions between 0.1 and 2.0 megapixels
Open weights published for research and non-commercial use, with generated images usable for personal, scientific and commercial purposes under the license terms
Prompt following that the maker describes as matching closed-source alternatives

What people use it for

General text-to-image work where quality matters more than raw speed, such as marketing drafts and concept art
Research and experimentation on a strong open-weight base model
Typography-heavy compositions, an area the launch benchmarks called out as a strength
Self-hosted or customized pipelines built on publicly available weights

Reported strengths

Quality close to the proprietary FLUX.1 pro, since it is a direct distillation of that model
Launch benchmarks from Black Forest Labs placed it ahead of Midjourney v6.0, DALL-E 3 HD and SD3-Ultra across quality and prompt-adherence measures
Press testing of the FLUX.1 launch family reported prompt fidelity comparable to DALL-E 3, photorealism close to Midjourney v6 and clearly improved hand rendering versus Stable Diffusion XL

Reported limitations

The weights carry a non-commercial license; deploying the model itself commercially requires a separate agreement with Black Forest Labs
The official model card says the model cannot reliably provide factual information and may amplify societal biases present in its training data
Output quality depends heavily on prompting style, so prompt following is inconsistent across phrasings
Black Forest Labs has not disclosed the training data, which drew criticism in press coverage of the launch

Sources

Announcing Black Forest Labs (Black Forest Labs)
FLUX.1 [dev] model card (Black Forest Labs (Hugging Face))
FLUX.1 (Wikipedia)