Image models
FLUX or Imagen?
Crisp and photographic, or rich and colourful?
The short answer
Black Forest Labs
FLUX
FLUX for skin, fabric and product shots that pass for a real shoot — and for anything with type in it, where the letters have to be in the right order.
Photoreal by default
Skin, fabric and light that pass for a real photo shoot.
Words on the picture
Signs, labels and posters with the letters in the right order.
Brand-safe product
Clean product shots on set, ready for the store page.
Imagen
Imagen for colour and fine detail: food that looks edible, weather and scale in a landscape, fashion with magazine-grade styling.
Food that looks edible
Steam, gloss and crumbs where they belong.
Landscapes
Weather, distance and scale that feel real.
Fashion editorial
Magazine-grade poses, fabric and styling.
The next question
Either way the price is quoted before the render runs, and a render that fails is never charged for. If you would rather not choose, the studio picks for you on every ordinary render — this page is for when you would.