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by Black Forest Labs
RANKED #33 OF 85 IMAGES · OVERALL #135 OF 6,540 · VIBE SCORE 6.1 · 302 VOICES
Flux Klein FP8 on Civitai. 16,720 downloads. Community image checkpoint.
83 mentions
39 mentions
26 weeks · 225 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
Open weights: download Flux Klein once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
4B or 9B flow transformer parameters (paired with an 8B text embedder), a 4B quantized file is about 4.5 GB while 9B is about 9.5 GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$260 USED4B variant in FP8/GGUF, ~4 steps, ~2.5 s/image
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$590 NEW4B in FP8 or 9B GGUF with system RAM offload, ~4 steps, ~1.1 s/image
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USED9B variant in FP8 / BF16 natively in VRAM, ~4 steps, ~0.4 s/image
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Flux Klein takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~3 S★★★★★ | ~1 S★★★★★ | UNDER A SECOND★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
Not enough discussion about Flux Klein yet to call it. We found 302 posts but people did not say much either way.
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Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Flux Klein.
I ran SCAIL 2 through a bunch of scenarios it should not handle. It handled most of them.
DC Ancient Futurism Style 1
Open source Virtual Try-On LoRA for Flux Klein 9b Edit, hyper precise
FLUX.2 [klein] 4B & 9B released
RELEASE - The model you've all been waiting for - Smartphone Snapshot Photo Reality v13 - OMEGA
What would be your approach to create something like this locally?
For some things, Z-Image is still king, with Klein often looking overdone
Lenovo UltraReal and NiceGirls - Flux.Klein 9b LoRAs
Flux Klein 9B, getting albedo only from textures (delighting) - available for download
z-image vs. Klein
Gooners, what are your workflows these days?
Krea 2 already reached peak