FLUX 3
Black Forest Labs · Released Jul 2026
FLUX 3 is Black Forest Labs' first unified multimodal foundation model — a single architecture jointly trained on image, video, audio, and action prediction. It generates 20-second video clips with native synchronized audio, beating Runway Gen-4.5 by 77% and Luma Ray 3.2 by 93% in vendor-reported preference tests, and its FLUX-mimic variant is already deployed on Audi production lines for soft-body manipulation. But three of four components remain unreleased (only Video and Action are in gated early access), no pricing has been published, no independent benchmarks exist, and open-weight FLUX 3 Dev won't ship until later 2026. Conditional: groundbreaking architecture with real-world robotics validation, but not yet a product you can buy or independently evaluate.
Is it right for you?
Good for
- Unified multimodal generation — video, audio, images, and action prediction from one shared architecture trained jointly across all modalities
- Native synchronized audio in video generation — dialogue, SFX, and music generated in the same pass as the video, not bolted on later
- Robotics action prediction via FLUX-mimic — deployed at Audi for soft-body manipulation tasks with ~10x sample efficiency over prior approaches
Not good for
- Production video pipelines requiring published pricing, SLAs, and a public API — none exist as of launch
- Open-weight deployment today — FLUX 3 Dev multimodal backbone is planned for later 2026 but unreleased; only gated early access available
- Text or code generation — this is a visual intelligence model for creative media and robotics, not an LLM
Pricing
Input
Not yet published
Output
Not yet published
Context
Gated early access
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Human Preference vs Luma Ray 3.2 (10s 720p TTW) | 93% | Source |
| Human Preference vs Runway Gen-4.5 (10s 720p TTW) | 77% | Source |
| Human Preference vs Grok Imagine Video (10s 720p TTW) | 69% | Source |
| Human Preference vs Kling v3 Pro (10s 720p TTW) | 60% | Source |
| Human Preference vs Seedance 2.0 (10s 720p TTW) | 52% | Source |
| Human Preference vs Gemini Omni Flash (10s 720p TTW) | 52% | Source |
No verdict changes yet
The clock starts day one — changes land here as our verdict evolves.
Sources
- TechTimes — Clayton LewisJul 2026
- MarkTechPost — Michal SutterJul 2026
- VentureBeat — Carl FranzenJul 2026
- Black Forest Labs Official Press Release (GlobeNewswire)Jul 2026
- BFL Official BlogJul 2026
- kie.ai — Priya NairJul 2026
- BFL FLUX-mimic Technical BlogJul 2026
Verification log
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