FLUX.2

Provider

Black Forest Labs

Model

FLUX.2

Model ID

flux-2-pro

API Provider

bfl

Status

Active

Max Output

Input

Text + Images

Released

February 20, 2026

Last Verified

August 20, 2026

What Is FLUX.2?

FLUX.2 is the most consistently praised model for realism, particularly skin texture, metal and glass, and natural light falloff. It is also the most tunable model on this site: Guidance, Steps, Strength and Safety Tolerance are all exposed, so if you are willing to turn knobs you can get closer to what you actually pictured.

FLUX Model Versions

FLUX.2

Recommended · 4MP

From 3 Credits

FLUX.2 Klein

Fastest · 1K

From 1 Credits

Realistic light and material detail, with every parameter exposed.

Resolutions: 1K / 2K / 4K
Reference images: up to 4
Modes: Text to Image, Image to Image, Edit Image
Speed: Balanced

FLUX.2 Klein

The distilled FLUX.2: speed first, same visual language.

Resolutions: 1K
Reference images: up to 1
Modes: Text to Image, Image to Image
Speed: Fastest

What Is FLUX.2 Best For?

Photoreal portraits and photographic texture
Material detail: metal, glass, fabric
Cinematic scenes and lighting
Final renders where tuning is worth the time

How to Use FLUX.2

Select FLUX.2.
Write a photographic prompt: subject, lighting, lens, grade.
Open Advanced and adjust Guidance and Steps.
Upscale the final render for print sizes.

FLUX.2 Settings Explained

Guidance

How hard the model sticks to the prompt. 2.5–3 for realism, 4+ for graphic and illustrative work.

Steps

28 is the value-for-money knee. Pushing to 50 rarely pays off.

Image Strength

Image-to-image only. 0.3–0.5 keeps the original composition; above 0.8 is effectively a repaint.

Safety Tolerance

Shifts the content filter threshold. Keep the default for commercial assets.

The panel above shows only the parameters FLUX.2 actually supports. Switch versions and unsupported controls disappear rather than sitting there doing nothing.

FLUX.2 Prompt Examples

Photoreal portrait

Portrait of a woman in her 30s, natural skin texture, soft window light from the left, 85mm lens, shallow depth of field, muted color grading

Keep Guidance around 2.5–3; higher makes skin look fake.

Material study

A brushed titanium watch on dark slate, single hard light source, sharp specular highlights, macro detail

FLUX.2 Test Results

Testing in progress

Every model runs the same eight-category prompt set — portrait, product, poster text, anime character, interior, multi-reference, image editing and character consistency — recording generation time, success rate, text accuracy and identity retention. That run has not finished for FLUX.2, so this page shows no scores. We do not publish numbers we have not measured.