Black Forest Labs

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B

AI Image Editing Model

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All Text to Image Image Edit

Image

Black Forest Labs' distilled 9 billion parameter image generation model with sub-second inference and multi-reference support

What FLUX.2 [klein] 9B is good at

Rankings based on human votes in the Lumenfall Arena, where real users pick their favorite without knowing which model made which image. Excels at #15 Photorealism (Text-to-Image) , placing in the top 38% of all competing models.

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Strengths

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B outperforms most competing models here

Photorealism

Text-to-Image

Ranked #15 of 38 models · 36.8% win rate Leaderboard

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B

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Other categories

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B competes but doesn't rank as highly

Text Rendering

Text-to-Image

Ranked #23 of 37 models · 36.8% win rate Leaderboard

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B

Same prompt, other models

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Product, Branding & Commercial

Text-to-Image

Ranked #22 of 29 models · 41.7% win rate Leaderboard

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B

Same prompt, other models

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Photorealism

Image Editing

Ranked #17 of 17 models · 20.0% win rate Leaderboard

FLUX.2 [klein] 9B

Same prompt, other models

Before After

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Before After

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Before After

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Before After

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