Black Forest Labs' 12-billion parameter flow transformer for high-quality text-to-image generation, suitable for personal and commercial use with streaming support
Settled by community votes across 1 shared challenge, with an AI judge weighing in on each.
FLUX.1 [dev]
14.9
arena score
#42 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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FLUX.2 [dev] Flash
26.8
arena score
#5 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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FLUX.1 [dev]
0.0%
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Ties
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FLUX.2 [dev] Flash
100.0%
win rate
0.0%
0.0% ties
100.0%
Shared challenges
1
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The Halloween Invitation
Text-to-Image“Vintage gothic Halloween party invitation. Dark parchment poster, spooky border with webs and thorns, central glowing jack-o-lantern, bats, twisted trees, moody night sky. Add elegant gothic title text saying "Halloween Party Invitation", a small scroll banner saying "You are invited to a night of frights", and event details at the bottom: Date: 30.10.2026 Time: 7pm Location: The Arches, NYC Spooky but polished, cinematic lighting, square format.”
FLUX.1 [dev]
FLUX.2 [dev] Flash
0% wins
0% ties
100% wins
AI Judge Analysis
FLUX.1 [dev]
- + Strong cinematic lighting with high contrast
- + Intricate thorny border with good visual depth
- − Major text errors including 'Falloween Rancy' and typos in the invitation body
- − Missed the spider web requirement on the border
- − Incorrect punctuation and spacing in the date and time sections
FLUX.2 [dev] Flash
- + Excellent text rendering, correctly spelling the main title and most details
- + Perfect adherence to background elements including webs, thorns, and twisted trees
- + More authentic vintage gothic aesthetic with parchment textures
- − Small artifact in the time section adding gibberish text 'Hurk: 0369'
- − Slightly less 'glowy' than Model A, though still moody
Verdict: While FLUX.1 [dev] has striking lighting, it failed significantly on the text rendering and missed the spider web requirement. FLUX.2 [dev] Flash followed the layout instructions much more accurately, successfully including the webs and parchment texture while rendering the specific gothic title and invitation text almost perfectly.
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