FLUX.1 Kontext
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Pricing — 1 offering(s)
[pro]
- $0.04 / image
Current
2026-07-23 → present
effective_from is the date this entry was sourced, not a confirmed price-change date. Cross-checked against…
effective_from is the date this entry was sourced, not a confirmed price-change date. Cross-checked against fal.ai's hosting of the same model (fal-ai/flux-pro/kontext, also $0.04/image) — not recorded as a separate file since BFL's own API is the primary, most-authoritative host and Krea's listing (the source that surfaced this gap) treats "Flux Kontext" as one line item.
[max]
- $0.08 / image
Current
2026-07-23 → present
effective_from is the date this entry was sourced, not a confirmed price-change date.
Showing the active price and any recorded history. Full pricing history is available via the paid API — see API docs.
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See how →Capability profile
How FLUX.1 Kontext rates across core capability dimensions, with the task-level evidence behind each rating.
BFL's own materials headline 'great prompt following' for [pro] and describe [max] as adding stronger instruction adherence and typography accuracy for edit instructions specifically, not just generation prompts.
BFL's own materials describe [max] as having 'industry-leading typography' — a comparative vendor claim, not independently benchmarked here.
Core product claim: character consistency and style-preserving edits across iterations when editing an existing image, per BFL's own model page.
[pro] is positioned by BFL as optimized for 'fast, iterative image editing'; [max] trades some speed for quality ('Maximum Performance at High Speed' per BFL's own framing).
No specific claim found beyond generic quality marketing.
BFL's own docs don't state an output resolution ceiling for Kontext specifically (contrast with FLUX.2's stated up-to-4MP output).
Ratings are estimated — limited independent data is available for this model.
Operator guidance
Route here for image-editing workloads (an existing image plus a text instruction) rather than pure text-to-image generation; for that, use FLUX 1.1 [pro] or FLUX.1 [dev]/[schnell]. Within Kontext, [pro] is the faster, cheaper default and [max] the higher-fidelity, pricier tier. Black Forest Labs now recommends FLUX.2 over Kontext for new projects (better quality, multi-reference support, up to 4MP output), so treat Kontext as the legacy editing option.
Use cases
- Iterative, instruction-driven edits to an existing image (style changes, object edits, text replacement) rather than generating from scratch
- Character- and style-consistent edit series across multiple turns
- Existing integrations already built against FLUX.1 Kontext, per BFL's own migration guidance toward FLUX.2 for new projects
Limitations
- Black Forest Labs' own documentation positions this as a previous-generation model and actively steers new projects to FLUX.2, which is not yet tracked anywhere in this registry
- Closed weights for [pro]/[max] — API-only, no self-hosting or fine-tuning for those tiers (a separate open-weight [dev] variant exists but is out of scope for this doc's pricing-linked entry)