FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8 vs FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

Head-to-head across 1 challenge

FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8

0.0%

win rate

Ties

0.0%

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

100.0%

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0.0% 0.0% ties 100.0%

Challenge Results

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 [schnell] FP8
FLUX.2 [klein] 4B
0% wins 0% ties 100% wins

AI Judge Analysis

FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8

  • + Features a vibrant glowing jack-o-lantern
  • + Composition feels balanced and neat
  • Significant spelling errors throughout the event details and banner
  • Border looks like brown fabric rather than thorny parchment
  • Background lacks detail and depth

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

  • + Excellent atmospheric lighting and moody sky
  • + Intricate thorny and webbed border matches the prompt perfectly
  • + Superior vintage gothic aesthetic with detailed twisted trees
  • Primary title text contains several spelling errors
  • Minor typos in the banner and date

Verdict: FLUX.2 [klein] 4B captures the 'vintage gothic' and 'spooky but polished' aesthetic much more effectively with its atmospheric background and detailed thorny border. While both models struggled with some text accuracy, FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8 produced severe gibberish in the bottom half of the image, making the invitation unusable.

FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8

FP8 quantized variant of Black Forest Labs' FLUX.1 [schnell] model, offering ~2x faster inference with reduced precision while maintaining high-quality image generation in 4 steps

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B

Black Forest Labs' compact, open-source image generation model with sub-second inference, optimized for production and near real-time applications with multi-reference support