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Flux Schnell
by Black Forest Labs
CLOSEDHOSTEDAPI
RANKED #21 OF 74 IMAGES · OVERALL #96 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.3 · 235 VOICES
Image model for prompt-driven generation, editing, and visual design workflows
HAPPY9.4
41 mentions
SAD5.6
28 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 57 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Black Forest Labs hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Flux Schnell is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS6.4Flux DevBlack Forest LabsPick for identical Flux aesthetics and prompt following running privately in GGUF format.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS931 VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.3FluxBlack Forest LabsPick for the full base open-weight Flux architecture with top visual quality.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE11.8k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS6.1
Stable Diffusion 3.5Stability AIPick for a versatile open general-purpose alternative with strong typography.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY❤️ CROWD FAVORITE413 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Flux Schnell right now. Biggest gripe: price.
188 POSTS · 47 COMMENTS · DEV FORUMS · REDDIT · LEMMY · GITHUB · HACKER NEWS · X
PEOPLE LOVE
- Stable and dependable (1 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (3 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Help with Flux Schnell FP8 on RTX 4070 Ti SUPER – GPU crashes on load.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Flux Schnell.
Midjourney
Ideogram> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-11-30 · 515 UPVOTESZ-Image - Releasing the Turbo version before the Base model was a genius move.
Z-Image - Releasing the Turbo version before the Base model was a genius move.
- REDDIT · 2025-06-11 · 367 UPVOTESIf you're out of the loop here is a friendly reminder that every 4 days a new Chroma checkpoint is released
If you're out of the loop here is a friendly reminder that every 4 days a new Chroma checkpoint is released
- REDDIT · 2024-10-04 · 256 UPVOTESOpenFLUX vs FLUX: Model Comparison
OpenFLUX vs FLUX: Model Comparison
- REDDIT · 2024-11-04 · 234 UPVOTESIMAGE GENERATION PROMPTING CHEAT SHEET
IMAGE GENERATION PROMPTING CHEAT SHEET
- REDDIT · 2024-10-02 · 187 UPVOTESOpenFLUX.1 - Distillation removed - Normal CFG FLUX coming - based on FLUX.1-schnell
OpenFLUX.1 - Distillation removed - Normal CFG FLUX coming - based on FLUX.1-schnell
- REDDIT · 2025-02-11 · 177 UPVOTESOpenFlux X SigmaVision = ?
OpenFlux X SigmaVision = ?
- REDDIT · 2025-06-29 · 175 UPVOTESPSA: All NotSFW LoRAs and fine-tunes are against FLUX's new license and will be removed from CivitAI
PSA: All NotSFW LoRAs and fine-tunes are against FLUX's new license and will be removed from CivitAI
- REDDIT · 2024-08-18 · 143 UPVOTESSurrealism in Flux Schnell
Surrealism in Flux Schnell
- REDDIT · 2025-01-05 · 134 UPVOTESMy very first locally generated image lol - Flux Schnell, ComfyUI_Zluda for amd
My very first locally generated image lol - Flux Schnell, ComfyUI_Zluda for amd
- REDDIT · 2024-08-07 · 131 UPVOTESFLUX guided SDXL style transfer trick
FLUX guided SDXL style transfer trick
- REDDIT · 2024-08-17 · 128 UPVOTESUNet Extractor and Remover for Stable Diffusion 1.5 , SDXL and FLUX
UNet Extractor and Remover for Stable Diffusion 1.5 , SDXL and FLUX
- REDDIT · 2024-08-12 · 99 UPVOTESFlux tip for improving the success rate of u/kemb0 's trick for getting non-blurry backgrounds: Add words "First", "Second", etc., to the…
Flux tip for improving the success rate of u/kemb0 's trick for getting non-blurry backgrounds: Add words "First", "Second", etc., to the beginning of each sentence in the prompt.