image generation
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
Small distilled FLUX.2 image model under the FLUX Non-Commercial licence.
Levelmodel
Classimage generation
Parameters9B
Contextnot in the notes
Released25 Nov 2025
Opennessopen weights restricted
Runs onconsumer GPU
Statusactive
Benchmark Results
independent
Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Arena AA-Image-T2I v2.0generative media
approximate rankindependent
941
5009001,300
Score in Elo; the axis starts at 500, as Elo has no zero. Higher is better.
rank 84, AA Text-to-Image Arena, overall
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).
R&D Topics
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, 4-step distilled, Qwen3 8B text embedder
- Total parameters
- 9B sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- 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
- consumer GPU
- Footprint
- About 29 GB, RTX 4090 and above
- 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.
Lineage
The notes record no lineage for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperBlack Forest Labsstartup, Germany
Black Forest Labsstartup, GermanyModelFLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs, image generation
FLUX.2 [klein] 9BBlack Forest Labs, image generationR&D TopicsText-to-Image Foundation Models (Diffusion and Flow Transformers)Few-Step Distillation of Diffusion Models
Use Casesnone recorded
Who Runs Itnone recorded
Organisations 1
Sources
- black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B , Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-9B
- Flux (text-to-image model) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Labs
- AA-Image-T2I v2.0 Leaderboard - Top AI Image Models | Artificial Analysis artificialanalysis.ai https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-image/arena/leaderboard-text
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "FLUX.2 [klein] 9B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/black-forest-labs-flux-2-klein-9b/, records of October 2026.