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Flux vs Reve

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
Flux
Image Generation
Reve
Image Generation
TaglineBlack Forest Labs' open-weights image model — rivals Midjourney quality.Image generation that treats pictures as editable code, not one-shot diffusion outputs.
CategoryImage GenerationImage Generation
PricingFreemium· API per-image; weights free for [schnell] and [dev]Freemium
ModelFlux.1 [schnell / dev / pro]Reve 2.0 (in-house autoregressive planner + diffusion renderer)
Editorial score9.0 / 10—
Use cases
open sourceself-hostedhigh quality
text-to-imageimage-editing4k-generationtext-renderingiterative-design
Pros
  • Open weights for [schnell]/[dev] variants
  • Quality rivals Midjourney
  • Excellent prompt adherence
  • Self-hostable
  • Native 4K (16 MP) output without a separate upscaler pass
  • Code-like scene representation enables targeted edits, not full re-rolls
  • Strong text rendering and explicit compositional control
  • Agent-friendly structured output suits automated pipelines
Cons
  • [pro] is API-only
  • Self-hosting needs serious GPU
  • Pricing and quotas are not transparently published on the site
  • Smaller community and prompt library than Midjourney or SDXL ecosystems
  • Closed model with no self-host or weights option
Websiteblackforestlabs.aireve.com
Pick Flux if
  • ✅ Open weights for [schnell]/[dev] variants
  • ✅ Quality rivals Midjourney
  • ✅ Excellent prompt adherence
  • ✅ Self-hostable
Pick Reve if
  • ✅ Native 4K (16 MP) output without a separate upscaler pass
  • ✅ Code-like scene representation enables targeted edits, not full re-rolls
  • ✅ Strong text rendering and explicit compositional control
  • ✅ Agent-friendly structured output suits automated pipelines
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