Shotcraft
Image generation

FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] / [max]

Instruction-driven image editing models from the FLUX.1 generation (2025), still exposed as live /flux-kontext-pro and /flux-kontext-max endpoints.

An image model by Black Forest Labs · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing high

Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Depends which variant you download

They take an input image plus a text instruction and edit in place while preserving character and scene identity. Superseded for most new work by FLUX.2, which folds editing into the base models.

Commercial use — Depends which variant you download

Which artefact you use decides the answer. The hosted [pro] and [max] endpoints run under Black Forest Labs' API terms, while the separately released FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] weights are under the FLUX Non-Commercial License.

  • Depends on your plan tier. Hosted [pro] and [max] are proprietary and used under BFL API terms.

This entry was written by hand from the licence wording quoted above, because the source dataset's yes/no field was misleading here. Read the licence before you rely on any of this. Nothing on this page is legal advice, and this site does not tell you a model is cleared for commercial use.

Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Black Forest Labs's own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is strong: the figures came from pages we retrieved and read. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
text, image
What it makes
image
Maximum resolution
not established
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
editing-by-instruction, image-to-image, reference-character-consistency, style-reference, inpainting, text-rendering
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
per image: $0.04 (Kontext [pro]), $0.08 (Kontext [max])
Released or updated
2025-05/2025-06

Maximum resolution and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Flat, predictable per-image pricing unlike FLUX.2's megapixel model
  • Well-established instruction-editing behaviour and character preservation
  • Kontext [dev] weights available for local research

Weaknesses

  • Previous-generation quality versus FLUX.2
  • No published resolution limits
  • [dev] weights cannot be used commercially without a paid license

Best for

What to understand before using it

Explainers naming the mechanisms this model's own documentation mentions.

How to prompt it

Written for FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] / [max]. See prompt craft for the full vocabulary and cinematic language for the lens, light and mood tables.

MCP servers that front Black Forest Labs

Servers in the media MCP directory whose own description or homepage names this vendor. Absence of a server here is not evidence that none exists: most publish no tool list at all.

See it from the vendor

Shotcraft hosts no sample output. Judging a model means watching its own showreel with your own eyes, and a clip re-hosted here would be a clip we chose.

Nearby in the directory

FLUX.2 [dev]

32-billion-parameter open-weights checkpoint that does text-to-image plus single- and multi-reference editing in one model, released 25 November 2025

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FLUX.2 [flex]

Hosted FLUX.2 variant that exposes sampling steps and guidance scale as API parameters, letting callers trade quality and prompt adherence against spe

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FLUX.2 [klein] (4B / 9B)

Size-distilled open-weights members of the FLUX.2 family, released January 2026 in 4B and 9B sizes plus 'Base' checkpoints intended for fine-tuning an

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Sources

Read on 2026-08-14. A source that has changed since then will not be reflected here until the next pass.