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Magnific (formerly Freepik)Adobe FireflyBlack Forest Labs (FLUX)
| Field | Magnific (formerly Freepik)magnific.com | Adobe Fireflyfirefly.adobe.com | Black Forest Labs (FLUX)bfl.ai |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Freepik rebranded its entire AI platform as Magnific on 28 April 2026, folding the standalone upscaler into one credit pool alongside stock assets and hosted models including Nano Banana 2, FLUX.2, Seedream 5.0 and Kling 3.0. Upscales up to 16x. | Adobe's generative suite, currently on Firefly Image 5, trained on Adobe Stock, openly licensed and public-domain material rather than scraped web images. Now also brokers third-party models and generates video. Credit cost varies by model: Image 5 is 10 credits, Image 4 Ultra 20. | The FLUX family from the ex-Stable Diffusion team. FLUX.2 ships as klein, dev, pro, flex and max; FLUX 3 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. |
| Category | AI media generation | AI media generation | AI media generation |
| Cost tier | mixed | mixed | mixed |
| Pricing | Free about 20 images/day. Premium $20/mo (240K annual credits), Premium+ $45 (600K), Pro $280 (4M); annual about 25% off. API roughly $0.08 per 2K upscale. | Free tier with limited watermarked credits. Standard $9.99/mo (2,000 credits), Pro $19.99 (4,000), Premium $199.99 (50,000). API is enterprise contract only. | 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. |
| Why builders pick it | Still the reference creative upscaler: Creative mode hallucinates convincing new detail into soft images, Precision mode enlarges without inventing anything. Premium+ gives effectively unlimited runs on roughly thirty workhorse image models for $45. | The pick when legal sign-off matters more than raw quality: Adobe offers IP indemnification to enterprise customers, which no other major generator does. Deep native integration into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express beats any bolt-on plugin. | The pragmatic pick when image generation lives inside your own product: cheap per-image API, plus dev and klein open weights you can run on your own GPUs with no per-call fee. Kontext remains the best instruction-based image editor. |
| Watch out for | Credits are granted annually, not monthly, and do not roll into the next year - a heavy first quarter can leave you empty by summer. 'Unlimited' on Premium+ excludes video, audio and premium image variants, which always bill. | Free-tier outputs are watermarked. Consumer plans include no API access at all - Firefly Services is an enterprise sales contract with no published rate card, and community reports suggest a starting commitment near $1,000/month. | Open weights are not an open licence - dev and klein 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. |
| How to wire it up | API on Pro, Business and Enterprise, credit-metered. An MCP server is offered for Claude and ChatGPT. | Firefly Services API is enterprise-only via Adobe Sales; there is no self-serve developer tier. | Direct REST API at api.bfl.ai, plus resale through fal, Replicate and Together. |
| Editor's pick | No | No | No |
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# Tool comparison — Magnific (formerly Freepik) vs Adobe Firefly vs Black Forest Labs (FLUX) Source: Kbaise, a directory of tools that work with Lovable projects. Pick one and tell me why before writing any integration code. ## Magnific (formerly Freepik) (magnific) - URL: https://magnific.com - Category: AI media generation - Cost: mixed — Free about 20 images/day. Premium $20/mo (240K annual credits), Premium+ $45 (600K), Pro $280 (4M); annual about 25% off. API roughly $0.08 per 2K upscale. - What it is: Freepik rebranded its entire AI platform as Magnific on 28 April 2026, folding the standalone upscaler into one credit pool alongside stock assets and hosted models including Nano Banana 2, FLUX.2, Seedream 5.0 and Kling 3.0. Upscales up to 16x. - Why builders pick it: Still the reference creative upscaler: Creative mode hallucinates convincing new detail into soft images, Precision mode enlarges without inventing anything. Premium+ gives effectively unlimited runs on roughly thirty workhorse image models for $45. - Trap: Credits are granted annually, not monthly, and do not roll into the next year - a heavy first quarter can leave you empty by summer. 'Unlimited' on Premium+ excludes video, audio and premium image variants, which always bill. - Wiring: API on Pro, Business and Enterprise, credit-metered. An MCP server is offered for Claude and ChatGPT. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/magnific ## Adobe Firefly (adobe-firefly) - URL: https://firefly.adobe.com - Category: AI media generation - Cost: mixed — Free tier with limited watermarked credits. Standard $9.99/mo (2,000 credits), Pro $19.99 (4,000), Premium $199.99 (50,000). API is enterprise contract only. - What it is: Adobe's generative suite, currently on Firefly Image 5, trained on Adobe Stock, openly licensed and public-domain material rather than scraped web images. Now also brokers third-party models and generates video. Credit cost varies by model: Image 5 is 10 credits, Image 4 Ultra 20. - Why builders pick it: The pick when legal sign-off matters more than raw quality: Adobe offers IP indemnification to enterprise customers, which no other major generator does. Deep native integration into Photoshop, Illustrator and Express beats any bolt-on plugin. - Trap: Free-tier outputs are watermarked. Consumer plans include no API access at all - Firefly Services is an enterprise sales contract with no published rate card, and community reports suggest a starting commitment near $1,000/month. - Wiring: Firefly Services API is enterprise-only via Adobe Sales; there is no self-serve developer tier. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/adobe-firefly ## Black Forest Labs (FLUX) (black-forest-labs) - URL: https://bfl.ai - Category: AI media generation - Cost: mixed — 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. - What it is: The FLUX family from the ex-Stable Diffusion team. FLUX.2 ships as klein, dev, pro, flex and max; FLUX 3 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 builders pick it: The pragmatic pick when image generation lives inside your own product: cheap per-image API, plus dev and klein open weights you can run on your own GPUs with no per-call fee. Kontext remains the best instruction-based image editor. - Trap: Open weights are not an open licence - dev and klein 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. - Wiring: Direct REST API at api.bfl.ai, plus resale through fal, Replicate and Together. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/black-forest-labs ## Rules 1. Prefer the free tier when no budget was stated, and say what the ceiling is. 2. Read the full dossier before integrating. 3. Fetch /api/public/models before writing any AI model ID.
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