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FLUX models: Versions, specs, GPU requirements & hosting

Black Forest Labs FLUX provides transformer-based image generation and editing releases with materially different checkpoint sizes and commercial terms.

Technical deployment reference illustration for FLUX
Reference deployment flow; exact architecture facts are listed separately.

Overview and history

FLUX is an official Black Forest Labs model family represented here through independently verified release, checkpoint, license, runtime and hardware evidence. Black Forest Labs FLUX provides transformer-based image generation and editing releases with materially different checkpoint sizes and commercial terms. Current public releases are grouped by the Image Generation tracks so sibling sizes and specialist branches are not presented as false chronological generations.

FusionPointAI currently tracks 9 certified public FLUX releases. The catalogue preserves release dates and evaluates Current, Recent, Previous and Legacy status within each model track rather than by database insertion order.

Image synthesis and editing
Multiple deployment scales
Explicit release-level license boundaries

Architecture and model range

This Image generation family has 9 source-certified public releases. Architecture, parameter counts, and pipeline details are shown only when the official source publishes them; language-model-only context and KV-cache assumptions are not applied.

Public releases9
Model tracks1
Current generationFLUX.2 Klein 4B
Last verified2026-09-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Generations, tracks and variants

General

Deployment ecosystem

Choose a specific FLUX release and certified checkpoint before sizing hardware. FusionPointAI rejects unknown runtime configurations and applies workload-specific memory rules before separating compatible hardware from rentable inventory.

Validate the exact checkpoint, license, runtime, precision, input and output dimensions, batch size, and GPU memory. Resource sizing uses rules appropriate to Image generation workloads.

Common use cases

Private Image generation workloads
Controlled model evaluation
Production deployment planning

License overview

Licenses are certified per release, not inferred from the provider. Review the release page before commercial deployment because terms can differ between generations and variants.

Commercial-use status is a source-backed catalogue classification, not legal advice. Follow the linked official license and attribution requirements.

Release timeline

black-forest-labs/flux/flux2-dev-nvfp4

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 0fb5437b4315fb344e412f317bb270c5fbd66603de72fa023834117bf298b71b

black-forest-labs/flux/flux2-klein-9b-fp8

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 79055ceaa3992353e39624afca4092bf9c52f46e074e00d084d8a8db6773b7c4

black-forest-labs/flux/flux2-klein-9b-nvfp4

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Official source

Source revision: 596f8bf1fa07b3acbb56c05cf947a9c47dcd6bc39df3513f32fcf2aceff45bad

black-forest-labs/flux/flux2-klein-4b-nvfp4

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Official source

Source revision: 1723671b80346868d4a85881796c2b5b2662c94f320f1e0f3860059bdbf5886b

black-forest-labs/flux/flux2-klein-4b-fp8

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Official source

Source revision: 8380ef0173cf338920d0d23042e74a9e62bc3268be862bd17636f79086e95ca8

black-forest-labs/flux/flux-2-dev

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Official source

Source revision: 3cd4e6314c439bf0cb5779607c9f1b1b8efa3dcf245f2387688a3468e6854a18

black-forest-labs/flux/flux2-klein-9b

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 28f43c361a00f2641a3911bb211a253cb830e575df746fbc38a9859a6aec37f1

black-forest-labs/flux/flux-2-klein-4b

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Official source

Source revision: 4f9ba59dd8f5f6752667d54a9f93a2c379fcd9ce26069cc481fdaca7a833343f

black-forest-labs/flux/flux-2-klein-9b

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Official source

Source revision: ffacaedf4c186e394a4ff9e1cf43ae38df94fd2558ef42471f552179b1867b41

black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9b-nvfp4 @ 2026-02-24T13:07:57Z

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Official source

Source revision: 2026-02-24T13:07:57Z

black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-4b-fp8 @ 2026-02-24T13:01:26Z

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Official source

Source revision: 2026-02-24T13:01:26Z

black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9b-fp8 @ 2026-02-24T12:32:14Z

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Official source

Source revision: 2026-02-24T12:32:14Z

black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B @ 2026-02-24T12:19:11Z

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Official source

Source revision: 2026-02-24T12:19:11Z

black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev @ 2026-02-18T12:49:22Z

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Official source

Source revision: 2026-02-18T12:49:22Z

Frequently asked questions

Which FLUX release is current?

Current releases are FLUX.2 Klein 4B, FLUX.2 Klein 9B, FLUX.2-dev, evaluated within their respective tracks.

Can FLUX be self-hosted?

Only releases with a verified official checkpoint and supported runtime configuration are presented as deployable.

Which GPU should run FLUX?

GPU selection depends on the exact variant, checkpoint precision, context length and concurrency; use the release hardware recommendations rather than the family name alone.

Official references

Last verified: 2026-09-04