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Black Forest Labs API.

Black Forest Labs' first-party API for the Flux image-generation family.

At a glance

Service type
Serverless specialty
Trust tier
Tier 1
Headquarters
DE
OpenAI-compat
No
Open weights
Yes
Proprietary
Yes

When to pick Black Forest Labs API

Best for

  • Ultra-low-latency inference (Groq's LPU silicon, Cerebras).
  • Image / video / audio generation via per-second billing.
  • Workloads where the specialty's hardware advantage outweighs cost.

Avoid for

  • General LLM workloads where a generalist aggregator is cheaper.
  • Workloads needing feature parity across many models.

Models on Black Forest Labs API

Pricing + measured speed + self-host alternative, one row per model. Click a column header to sort.

1 models · 0 benchmarked
Model ↕ Maker ↕ Access ↕ $/M in ↕ $/M out ↕ Tokens/sec ↕ TTFT ↕ Self-host on ↕
FLUX.1 Pro Black Forest Labs api direct 1× Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti · INT4 Open →