Stable Diffusion
A family of downloadable image models with a large ecosystem of fine-tunes and tooling.
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Stable Diffusion vs FLUX
Stable Diffusion (Stability AI) and FLUX (Black Forest Labs) both sit in Image. FLUX is the cheaper entry point at Pay-as-you-go API pricing with no subscriptions/seat fees. Pricing varies per image resolution, video second, or megapixel.. FLUX shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 8). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Stable Diffusion Stability AI | FLUX Black Forest Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Image | Image |
| Version | Stable Diffusion 3.5 | FLUX 3 |
| Entry cost | from $19/org/mo | Pay-as-you-go API pricing with no subscriptions/seat fees. Pricing varies per image resolution, video second, or megapixel. |
| Pricing tiers | Trial free · Creator $19 · Core $50 | Pay as you go free |
| Model stack | more · Nano Banana · Seedream · Stable Audio 3.0 · Stable Diffusion · Stable Diffusion 3.5 | FLUX 1.1 [pro] · FLUX 3 · FLUX 3 Action · FLUX 3 Image · FLUX 3 Image Klein · FLUX 3 Max · FLUX 3 Video · FLUX 3 Video Draft · FLUX.1 [dev] · FLUX.1 [pro] · FLUX.1 Kontext · FLUX.1 Kontext [max] · FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] · FLUX.2 · FLUX.2 [dev] · FLUX.2 [flex] · FLUX.2 [klein] · FLUX.2 [klein] 4B · FLUX.2 [klein] 9B · FLUX.2 [max] · FLUX.2 [pro] · FLUX1.1 [pro] Ultra |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 8 | 9 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Open weights, LoRA fine-tuning, ControlNet ecosystem, Local inference, Commercial licence, Text-to-image, Sketch-to-image, Inpainting | Open weights, Image editing, Multi-reference, Character consistency, High resolution, Text-to-Image, Multi-reference image editing, Outpainting |
FLUX
Image generation and editing models available both as open weights and hosted API.
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