FLUX.1 [schnell]
Hugging Face (Black Forest Labs) Open weights
The catch: The repo is gated, so downloading needs a Hugging Face login and click-through, and prompts are capped at 256 tokens.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 12B-parameter text-to-image model that generates in 1 to 4 steps. |
| Modality | image |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Apache-2.0 |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use FLUX.1 [schnell]
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Quickstart
FluxPipeline.from_pretrained("black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)(prompt, guidance_scale=0.0, num_inference_steps=4, max_sequence_length=256).images[0]Paste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "FLUX.1 [schnell]" (black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- The repo is gated, so downloading needs a Hugging Face login and click-through, and prompts are capped at 256 tokens.
- Apache-2.0; the model card says it 'can be used for personal, scientific, and commercial purposes' (huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell).
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is FLUX.1 [schnell] free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Apache-2.0. No credit card is needed.
Can I use FLUX.1 [schnell] commercially?
Yes, under Apache-2.0. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with FLUX.1 [schnell]?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Source: huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell, checked 2 Oct 2026.