flux-1-schnell

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black-forest-labs

FLUX.1 [schnell] is a 12 billion parameter rectified flow transformer capable of generating images from text descriptions. This model offers cutting-edge output quality and competitive prompt following, matching the performance of closed source alternatives. Trained using latent adversarial diffusion distillation, FLUX.1 [schnell] can generate high-quality images in only 1 to 4 steps.

Modality

Chat

Region

US

Published

Jul 21, 2026

Use it via the API

flux-1-schnell works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — point the base URL at https://preprod-backend.sovereigneg.com/v1 and use your SovereignEG API key.

Run inference

OpenAI-compatible — POST /v1/chat/completions — drop-in for any OpenAI SDK.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://preprod-backend.sovereigneg.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="flux-1-schnell",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What are some fun things to do in Cairo?"}
    ],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Frequently asked questions

Where is flux-1-schnell hosted?

flux-1-schnell is served from US (US-hosted inference).

How do I use flux-1-schnell via the API?

flux-1-schnell is available through the OpenAI-compatible SovereignEG API: point your SDK's base URL at https://preprod-backend.sovereigneg.com/v1 and call /v1/chat/completions with model "flux-1-schnell" and your API key.