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  "slug": "black-forest-labs",
  "name": "Black Forest Labs (FLUX)",
  "url": "https://bfl.ai",
  "cat": "gen",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "Open-weight image models + API",
  "price": "API per image: FLUX.2 klein from $0.014, pro from $0.03, flex $0.05, max $0.07. Kontext pro $0.04, max $0.08. Open weights free to self-host.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "The FLUX family from the ex-Stable Diffusion team. <b>FLUX.2</b> ships as klein, dev, pro, flex and max; <b>FLUX 3</b> landed 26 July 2026 as one multimodal model doing image, 20-second video with native audio, and robot action prediction, still in gated early access.",
  "why": "The pragmatic pick when image generation lives inside your own product: cheap per-image API, plus <code>dev</code> and <code>klein</code> open weights you can run on your own GPUs with no per-call fee. Kontext remains the best instruction-based image editor.",
  "warn": "Open weights are not an open licence - <code>dev</code> and <code>klein</code> are non-commercial unless you buy a BFL commercial self-hosting licence. FLUX 3 access is staged and gated: video first, image later, open weights last.",
  "install": "Direct REST API at api.bfl.ai, plus resale through fal, Replicate and Together.",
  "category": {
    "key": "gen",
    "name": "AI media generation",
    "desc": "Image, video, voice and music. Commercial rights differ wildly by tier — check every warn.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://bfl.ai/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T23:43:12.623+00:00"
  },
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}