FLUX vs Stable Diffusion
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
FLUX
Black Forest Labs' image and video models: open weights plus a pay-as-...
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Stable Diffusion
Open-weight image models you can run, fine-tune and ship on your own h...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.3 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Apache 2.0 weights (FLUX.2 klein 4B, FLUX.1 schnell); FLUX 3 Image Klein and Action free for firms under $5M annual revenue | Self-hosted weights free under the Community License below US$1M annual revenue; 25 free API credits for new accounts |
| Paid from | From $0.008 per image (FLUX 3 Image Klein API); video from $0.03 per second | $0.025 per image via the API (SD 3.5 Flash, 2.5 credits at $0.01 each) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Widely available via third-party API providers | Widely adopted open-source model; no official central user count |
| Founded | 2024 | 2022 |
| Maker | Black Forest Labs | Stability AI |
| Verdict | FLUX is one of the strongest model families to build on, and since July 2026 it is more than an image model: FLUX 3 adds video with native audio and an open robotics model, while FLUX 3 Image Klein is a small open-weight... |
Stable Diffusion is still the image family to pick when you need to run, fine-tune and control the model yourself: SDXL and SD 3.5 run on your own GPUs, the API is cheap per image, and the licence is free for most indivi... |
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