The technology behind Flux 3 Klein
How the model works, based on public documentation and sourced evidence.
Flux 3 Klein, officially FLUX 3 Image Klein, is the small member of Black Forest Labs' Flux 3 family, released on October 15, 2026. It has 5.6 billion parameters and ships as open weights under the FLUX Kommunity License, which allows free commercial use for individuals and for companies under 5 million dollars in annual revenue. Klein is German for small, and the point is speed and running on a single consumer graphics card, down to 8 GB of memory with the INT8 build.
Black Forest Labs released a base model for fine tuning and a step distilled model for fast generation; the distilled one is the version served through APIs. It covers text to image, image editing and multi reference generation with up to 10 reference images, native 4K output, and bounding boxes that steer where elements go or keep an edit inside an area. A prompt upsampler rewrites short prompts into fuller descriptions before generation, and because the model was trained on long scene captions, Black Forest Labs advises keeping it on.
In Black Forest Labs' own Elo comparisons Klein ranks first among open weights models for text to image, editing and multi reference work, 91 points ahead of FLUX.2 [klein] 9B in text to image and 70 in editing with 38 percent fewer parameters. Those are internal numbers, and the company timed its own model on its servers and rivals from the client side, so the speed comparison is not controlled.
On Vidney both modes are open. Text to image and editing run at 1K, 2K or 4K in 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9 or 9:16, and an edit can take up to 10 reference images. Prompt expansion is on by default. 2K works as a budget of about four megapixels, so a 16:9 image at 2K is wider than 2048 pixels, while 4K reaches 4096 pixels on the long side. Bounding boxes, custom sizes and the base model are not offered here.