Black Forest Labs upgraded its FLUX Video Upscaler, which can upscale video to 4K.
BFL says the upgraded version costs less than Topaz Astra 2 and runs twice as fast.
The lab behind FLUX — frontier open and commercial models for image, and now video, audio, and action prediction in one multi-modal architecture.
About Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is the research lab behind FLUX, one of the leading families of image generation models, available in open and commercial tiers and through an API. Its latest release, FLUX 3, is a single multi-modal model spanning image, video, audio, and action prediction, jointly trained in one unified architecture, with FLUX 3 Video in early access. The unified design can even be extended to predict actions for robotics.
Pricing model: Freemium
Features
- FLUX frontier image generation models
- FLUX 3: one model for image, video, audio, and action
- Open and commercial model tiers
- API access for developers
- State-of-the-art prompt fidelity and realism
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Common questions about Black Forest Labs
What is FLUX?
FLUX is Black Forest Labs' family of frontier image (and now multi-modal) generation models, available in open and commercial versions and via API.
What is FLUX 3?
A single multi-modal model for image, video, audio, and action prediction, jointly trained in one architecture, with FLUX 3 Video in early access.
FLUX 3 Max makes a 10-second video in about 12 seconds
Black Forest Labs and fal Research have introduced FLUX 3 Max, a video model available on fal. They say it generates a 10-second 720/768p video in about 12 seconds.
fal says the model is tied for 1 in image-to-video quality on independent third-party benchmarks. Its launch offer was 75% off on fal for three weeks starting October 19, 2026.
FLUX 3 Image Klein
Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B parameter model with open weights for text-to-image, multi-reference generation and image editing.
The lab says it leads its own blind evaluations across those tasks.
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Introducing FLUX 3 Action
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B parameter World Action Model with open weights. The lab says it takes first place on the RoboLab benchmark.
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FLUX Video Upscale: 2K and 4K
Black Forest Labs' FLUX Upscale is available as a standalone FLUX Tool and an endpoint. It regenerates existing video at higher resolutions, with 2K and 4K output. Black Forest Labs describes the output as up to native 4K.
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Introducing FLUX 3
FLUX 3 Video is in early access through Black Forest Labs.
The lab describes FLUX 3 as one model jointly trained for image, video, audio, and action prediction in a single architecture. It says the model can also be extended to predict actions for robotics.
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