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FLUX.1 [schnell]

Black Forest Labs·

ImageimagelocalEdge / Consumer

Overview

Fastest FLUX variant, Apache 2.0 licensed. Optimized for local inference and rapid prototyping.

Capabilities and innovations

12B parametersText-to-imageFastest FLUX variantApache 2.0 licenseTimestep Distillation (4 steps)Apache 2.0 Open Weight Image Gen

Benchmarks

No benchmark values are recorded for this model.

  • GPQA Diamond: not reported by the vendor
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Verified: not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Pro: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMLU: not reported by the vendor
  • MMLU-Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • Terminal-Bench 2.x: benchmark did not exist at release
  • MMMU-Pro: benchmark did not exist at release

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
12B total (Dense)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~7 GB, Edge / Consumer class

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