Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 6B model that outscores Qwen Image 2.1 in internal evals
bfl_ai · x · 2026-10-15
Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3 Image Klein, claiming it beats open-weights leader Qwen Image 2.1 on text-to-image and multi-reference generation in internal evals at lower cost. Published Pareto charts show it leading Ideogram V4.5, FLUX.2 [pro] and Krea 2 on both ELO rating and latency (5s per 1MP image), while retaining native 4K generation, bounding-box layouts and pixel-perfect editing in a 6B-parameter model.
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