# Black Forest Labs

> Black Forest Labs develops the FLUX family of visual AI models for image generation and editing, video and audio generation, and action prediction. It sells API access, self-hosted commercial licenses and enterprise services while releasing selected model weights for developers and researchers.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** Freiburg, Germany; San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Robin Rombach (Co-founder and CEO), Andreas Blattmann (Co-founder), Patrick Esser (Co-founder)
- **Products:** FLUX.1, FLUX.1 Kontext, BFL Playground, FLUX.2, FLUX 3
- **Notable:** Launched FLUX.1 and announced a US$31 million seed round on August 1, 2024., Secured a US$300 million Series B at a US$3.25 billion post-money valuation in December 2025., Reached 51 million-plus FLUX images on Envato according to a June 2026 company case study.

## Products & services

- **FLUX.1** — Original text-to-image model family with hosted pro, open-weight dev and Apache-2.0 schnell variants.
- **FLUX.1 Kontext** — Joint image generation and contextual editing, including character preservation and iterative changes.
- **BFL Playground** — Browser interface for testing models without API integration.
- **FLUX.2** — Image generation and editing family with multiple-reference workflows and API or selected self-hosted models.
- **FLUX 3** — Multimodal foundation spanning images, video, audio and action prediction; rollout began in early access in July.
- **FLUX 3 Action** — Open-weight 7B world-action model for joint video and robot action prediction.
- **FLUX 3 Image Klein** — 5.6B-parameter open-weight generator and editor supporting up to ten reference images; API pricing starts at $0.009 per 1K image.
- **API and enterprise licensing** — Usage-based hosted inference, commercial self-hosting, customization, support and enterprise deployment options.

## Achievements

- Launched FLUX.1 and announced a US$31 million seed round on August 1, 2024.
- Secured a US$300 million Series B at a US$3.25 billion post-money valuation in December 2025.
- Reached 51 million-plus FLUX images on Envato according to a June 2026 company case study.
- Released FLUX 3 Action weights in September 2026 and FLUX 3 Image Klein weights in October 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — October 15: released FLUX 3 Image Klein with 5.6B parameters, open weights and API access.
- **2026-09** — September 23: announced FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weight world-action model.
- **2026-08** — August 20: announced FLUX Video Upscale for 2K and 4K.
- **2026-07** — July 23: introduced FLUX 3 and its multimodal research direction.

## Links

- Website: https://bfl.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bflai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/bfl_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/black-forest-labs
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@blackforestlabs-ai
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bfl.ai

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Last updated: 2026-10-15