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FLUX

Black Forest Labs' frontier open-weight image model.

Honest pros

  • Open weights for FLUX.1 schnell/dev let you self-host
  • Photorealism beats most closed competitors
  • Excellent prompt adherence on complex scenes
  • Active community building LoRAs and pipelines

Real cons

  • Pro/Ultra are closed-weight despite the open-source brand
  • Hardware-hungry for the dev variant
  • Less stylised flexibility than Midjourney
  • API ecosystem is fragmented across providers

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