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FLUX.1-schnell

FLUX.1-schnell is an open-weight image model from black-forest-labs, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

Image black-forest-labs 1 variants 630k downloads/mo
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Specifications

What it is

Makerblack-forest-labs
TypeImage models
Parameters (lead)11.9B
Variants1
Runs withdiffusers
Released2024-07-31
Popularity630k downloads / month
Likes5,643
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How image models work

Text promptwhat to makeText encoderunderstands itDiffusion stepsdenoise to pixelsImagePNG / JPEGA diffusion model starts from noise and denoises it, guided by your prompt, into a finished image.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
FLUX.1-schnell11.9BBF16~27.3 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys flux-1-schnell for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (flux-1-schnell below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"flux-1-schnell","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en

Tags

diffusers safetensors text-to-image image-generation flux en endpoints_compatible diffusers:FluxPipeline deploy:sagemaker deploy:azure

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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