Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
image generation

FLUX 3 Image

Black Forest Labs' unified image model announced 23 Jul 2026 (AA lists Oct 2026), proprietary at launch.

Black Forest LabsBlack Forest LabsGermanyFLUXFamily
Black Forest Labs
Levelmodel
Classimage generation
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released23 Jul 2026
Opennessproprietary
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

independent
Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Arena AA-Image-T2I v2.0generative media
rank shown as 8-11independent
1,115
5009001,300

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

rank 8, 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 to FLUX.2: successor, medium confidenceFLUX.2 to FLUX 3 Image: successor, low confidenceFLUX.1FLUX.1Black Forest Labs, Aug 2024FLUX.2FLUX.2Black Forest Labs, Nov 2025FLUX 3 ImageFLUX 3 ImageBlack Forest Labs, Jul 2026
Black Forest LabsFLUX.2 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, 3 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
Released
23 Jul 2026 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
not in the notes Unified multimodal model building on BFL Self-Flow
Total parameters
– 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
proprietary
Licence
Proprietary sources
Access routes
gated preview, API
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
Cloud only at launch; open-weight faster versions promised later in 2026
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. Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 Multimodal Video Model - DataNorth datanorth.ai https://datanorth.ai/news/black-forest-labs-releases-flux-3
  2. Flux (text-to-image model) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest_Labs
  3. 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 3 Image", https://aurion.semai.id/models/black-forest-labs-flux-3-image/, records of October 2026.