Shotcraft
Image generation

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 speed and cost.

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

Resolution
4 MP for image editing (FLUX.2 family, per BFL launch post); exact max width/height not published
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Commercial use
Vendor states commercial use is permitted

BFL highlights it specifically for text rendering. Billed per output megapixel from $0.05.

Commercial use — Vendor states commercial use is permitted

Commercial use via BFL API service terms.

The licence notes recorded during research were read for a commercial-use position and did not state one. 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
4 MP for image editing (FLUX.2 family, per BFL launch post); exact max width/height not published
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
image-to-image, reference-character-consistency, style-reference, text-rendering, editing-by-instruction
Weights
Not released
API
Yes
Pricing
per image, from $0.05 (scales with output resolution / megapixels)
Released or updated
2025-11-25

Supported aspect ratios is not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated it, not that the model lacks one.

Strengths

  • Explicit steps/guidance control for tuning cost vs quality
  • Called out by the vendor for text rendering
  • Same reference-editing feature set as the rest of FLUX.2

Weaknesses

  • Requires tuning knowledge to beat [pro] defaults
  • More expensive than [pro] at the same resolution
  • No published resolution or aspect-ratio ceilings

Best for

What to understand before using it

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

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.

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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.