Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
image generation

FLUX.2 [dev]

Open-weight non-commercial FLUX.2 image model; commercial use needs a licence from BFL.

Black Forest LabsBlack Forest LabsGermanyFLUX.2Family
Black Forest Labs
Levelmodel
Classimage generation
Parameters32B
Contextnot in the notes
Released25 Nov 2025
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onsingle datacentre GPU
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

independent
Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Arena AA-Image-T2I v2.0generative media
approximate rankindependent
1,000
5009001,300

Score in Elo; the axis starts at 500, as Elo has no zero. Higher is better.

rank 44, AA Text-to-Image Arena, overall10 Oct 2026 artificialanalysis.ai
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

successor
FLUX.1 [dev] to FLUX.2 [dev]: successor, low confidenceFLUX.1 [dev]FLUX.1 [dev]Black Forest LabsFLUX.2 [dev]FLUX.2 [dev]Black Forest Labs, Nov 2025
Black Forest LabsFLUX.1 [dev] is the parent (successor)low confidencenotes
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Text-to-image foundation models (diffusion and flow transformers)produced by

Identity

Developer
Black Forest Labs
Family
FLUX.2
Released
25 Nov 2025 sourcessecondary report
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
flow matching Rectified flow transformer
Total parameters
32B sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
32B per S12 for the FLUX 2 Max comparison; dev size unverified
Context length
not in the notes
Input
text
Output
image
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights restricted
Licence
FLUX Non-Commercial License sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
single datacentre GPU
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Flux (text-to-image model) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Labs
  2. AA-Image-T2I v2.0 Leaderboard - Top AI Image Models | Artificial Analysis artificialanalysis.ai https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-image/arena/leaderboard-text
  3. Text-to-Image Models – Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-to-image&sort=trending
  4. Qwen-Image-2.1 release: Qwen's 7B open-weights image model datanorth.ai https://datanorth.ai/news/qwen-releases-qwen-image-2-1

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "FLUX.2 [dev]", https://aurion.semai.id/models/black-forest-labs-flux-2-dev/, records of October 2026.