Fast distilled version of Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 [dev] optimized for speed and cost efficiency.
Settled by community votes across 1 shared challenge, with an AI judge weighing in on each.
FLUX.2 [dev] Flash
26.8
arena score
#5 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium
15.7
arena score
#41 of 44 in Text-to-Image
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FLUX.2 [dev] Flash
0%
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Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium
0%
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Shared challenges
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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.2 [dev] Flash
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium
AI Judge Analysis
FLUX.2 [dev] Flash
- + Excellent typography with nearly perfect spelling and formatting
- + Atmospheric cinematic lighting that creates a professional, moody aesthetic
- + Highly detailed and symmetric border incorporating thorns and webs as requested
- − Includes a small line of garbled text 'Burk: 0369' that was not in the prompt
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium
- + Features more prominent twisted trees and a distinct parchment texture
- + Vibrant colors and a classic illustrative style
- − Extremely poor text rendering with numerous spelling errors like 'Halloweeen Inviloween'
- − Incorrect date and location spelling ('The Aches' instead of 'The Arches')
- − Messy composition with overlapping elements
Verdict: FLUX.2 [dev] Flash significantly outperforms Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium in this task, particularly in its ability to render complex text accurately and maintain a polished, cinematic composition. While Stable Diffusion 3.5 Medium captures the 'twisted trees' slightly better, its failure to spell basic words and the requested event details makes it unusable as an invitation.
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