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] Turbo
27.4
arena score
#4 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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FLUX.1 [dev]
0%
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FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo
0%
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Shared challenges
1
Challenge by challenge
The strongest take from each model on every shared challenge, with the AI judge's read.
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] Turbo
AI Judge Analysis
FLUX.1 [dev]
- + Features a beautiful, vibrant glowing center with excellent cinematic lighting.
- + Clean thorn border that frames the central artwork well.
- + Good use of vertical space with a stylized jack-o-lantern.
- − Significant text errors including 'Falloween Ranty' and a double time listing.
- − Missed the requirement for a spider web border.
- − The layout feels more like a poster than a cohesive invitation card.
FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo
- + Perfect text rendering for all requested fields including the title and specific event details.
- + Accurately includes both webs and thorns in the border as requested.
- + Excellent 'vintage parchment' texture and atmosphere that fits the gothic theme.
- − The jack-o-lantern's light is slightly more muted compared to the prompt's 'glowing' request.
- − The banner scroll is a bit simple in design.
Verdict: FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo is the clear winner as it followed every instruction, including the complex text requirements and specific border details like spider webs. While FLUX.1 [dev] produced a more vibrant illustration, it failed significantly on the text elements, resulting in a typo-filled title and redundant time information.
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