FLUX.1 Schnell six seconds a frame
The fastest model on the roster, and not by a few seconds. Four steps instead of twenty-odd — exactly enough to see whether an idea for a frame works at all, before you send the same brief through a model that will finish it.
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Specification
- Built by
- Black Forest Labs
- Starts from
- a written brief
- Size
- 512 – 2048 px
- Reference photos
- none
- Render time
- about 6s
- Cost
- 1 credit per image
What it is good for
- Six seconds
- Four versions of one brief in the time Nano Banana Pro takes to get halfway through the first. When you are hunting for a composition that changes how you work, not just how fast.
- Cheap to try
- An image costs one credit on every model, so four attempts here cost the same as four on the most expensive one — you just know the answer after a minute rather than a quarter of an hour.
- For editing the brief
- Change one sentence and see immediately what happened. On a slow model the same loop takes long enough that you stop closing it.
When to pick something else
This is not a finishing model. Detail is simplified, texture flattened, and on a complex composition it drops part of the brief — four sampling steps simply do not stretch further. Once you know what the frame should look like, send the same brief through FLUX.1 Dev or FLUX1.1 Pro Ultra. No reference photos and no text in the image here.
See every modelHow to brief this model
The things this engine handles differently from the rest. The habits that hold for every model are collected separately, in the help centre.
- Use it for one thing: finding out whether an idea for a frame holds up. Six seconds a version lets you reject four compositions faster than one renders in Nano Banana Pro.
- Keep the brief short. Given a complicated setup this model drops some of the conditions — four generation steps simply do not stretch further.
- Do not judge texture or detail from it. "The material looks flat" at this stage says nothing about how the final version will come out.
- Once the framing is right, run exactly the same brief through FLUX.1 Dev or FLUX1.1 Pro Ultra. Do not rewrite it — the model should be the variable, not the wording.
- There is neither text in image nor reference photographs here, so a headline and your own product both need a different engine from the start.
Where this model works
Questions about this model
Other models
- Nano Banana ProOne model for photos and for graphics. The most versatile on the roster.
- Seedream 5.0 ProExact pixel sizes and the widest frames. For formats the rest cannot hold.
- FLUX1.1 Pro UltraMaterial texture and believable light. For photos that should look like photos.
- FLUX.1 KreaA photo that does not look generated. Less gloss, more truth.
- Seedream 4Up to 4096 px on a clean background. The default for a listing's first photo.
- FLUX.1 DevFifteen seconds a frame. A solid middle between speed and quality.
- Krea 2 TurboEight seconds and a frame with a clear character. For mood shots.
- Qwen Image 3Correct Polish text and a clean layout. For graphics with a headline.
- Ideogram V3The best typography on the roster. For graphics where the text is the subject.
- Ideogram V4Ideogram's typography at up to 3840 px. For large creative.
- Nano Banana 28:1 and 1:8 frames the rest cannot do. For banners at extreme ratios.
- FLUX.2 ProDeep colour and glass with reflections. For creative from the top shelf.
- GPT Image 2Does exactly what you wrote. For graphics with callouts and leader lines.
- Z-Image TurboTen seconds to a clean composition. You add the text yourself, in the editor.
- Bria Product ShotYour photo, a new scene. The product stays exactly the same.
Try this model on your own product
Sign up without a card and get 40 credits. Switching model is one click, so you can send the same brief through several of them and keep the best frame.