BFL GmbH
The frontier AI research lab for visual intelligence, dedicated to developing state-of-the-art generative models for images and videos.
At a Glance
- Enterprise Software
- Creative Agencies
- Developers
- AI Research Communities
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AI Tools by BFL GmbH
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Black Forest Labs FLUX
AI Image Generation Models API
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Products & Services
State-of-the-art text-to-image model designed for professional performance and high-quality generation.
Open-weight version of FLUX.1 for non-commercial development and research.
Distilled, lightning-fast version of FLUX.1 for local and personal use under Apache 2.0 license.
Top-tier model in the FLUX.2 family, pushing limits on prompt adherence and image quality.
Market Position
Positions as the 'research-first' alternative to Midjourney and OpenAI, offering open-weight models that lead in prompt adherence and visual quality.
Leadership
Founders
Robin Rombach
CEO of Black Forest Labs. Previously a lead researcher at Stability AI and researcher at LMU Munich (CompVis). Lead author of the Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion papers.
Andreas Blattmann
Co-founder. Previously a researcher at Stability AI and LMU Munich (CompVis). Key contributor to Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion.
Patrick Esser
Co-founder. Previously a researcher at Stability AI and Runway. Lead author of the VQGAN paper and key contributor to Stable Diffusion.
Frederic Boesel
Co-founder. AI researcher, previously part of the CompVis group and Stability AI team.
Sumith Kulal
Co-founder. Previously researcher at Stability AI and Stanford University.
Tim Dockhorn
Co-founder. Previously researcher at Stability AI.
Executive Team
Robin Rombach
CEO & Co-founder
Lead researcher behind Stable Diffusion; PhD from LMU Munich.
Sanjana Tandon
Head of Partnerships & Business Development
Focuses on product distribution and commercial partnerships.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Founded by the researchers who created Stable Diffusion and Latent Diffusion. The team left Stability AI to build a new independent lab focused on research excellence and advanced visual models like FLUX.
Business Model
Revenue Model
API usage fees (per megapixel), commercial licensing for open-weight models, and enterprise partnerships.
Pricing Tiers
Generated image pricing based on resolution.
Optimized pricing for professional use.
Premium model pricing.
Fast, efficient model pricing.
Target Markets
- Enterprise Software
- Creative Agencies
- Developers
- AI Research Communities
- Media & Entertainment
- High-end creative content generation
- Image editing
- Video storytelling
- Enterprise AI applications
- Personal artistic creation
- Adobe
- Burda
- OpenArt
- Krea AI