# Black Forest Labs — FLUX 3 Image Klein > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is the record of one model version: what the model registry states about it, Black Forest Labs's launch post, the first-party posts this record holds about it, the outlets that reported on those posts, and other companies' announcements that it runs on their platforms. A model ranks nothing here and nothing is composed: each date names whose it is, and a field nothing states is `not stated` rather than missing. - This model's page: https://forck.live/models/flux-3-image-klein - Black Forest Labs's page: https://forck.live/company/black-forest-labs - Every model: https://forck.live/models - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Model - Name: FLUX 3 Image Klein - Company: Black Forest Labs (bfl.ai) - Launch post: FLUX 3 Image Klein — https://forck.live/items/22916-flux-3-image-klein - Announced: 2026-10-15T15:00:00+00:00 - Launch source: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-image-klein - Launch chosen by: a person, pinned in the model registry - Released (per models.dev): 2026-10-15 - Listed (per OpenRouter): not stated - Open weights: yes - Posts about it: 1 - Outlets named under its posts: 1 - Variant of: FLUX 3 Image — https://forck.live/models/flux-3-image - Licence: FLUX Kommunity License — from https://forck.live/items/22916-flux-3-image-klein - Price: Pricing starts at $0.009 per 1K image — from https://forck.live/items/22916-flux-3-image-klein ## Posts about it _Black Forest Labs's own posts whose title names FLUX 3 Image Klein, and its launch post, in the record's order: dated newest first, undated last. The record reads the newest 50 first-party posts mentioning the model, every company's together, so a model mentioned more often than that lists the newest of them._ Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields in this order before any others: Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record `Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record` is this site's page for it. 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Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry. ### Black Forest Labs — FLUX 3 Image Klein - Company: Black Forest Labs (bfl.ai) - Announced: 2026-10-15T15:00:00+00:00 - Category: open-weight-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-image-klein - Record: https://forck.live/items/22916-flux-3-image-klein - Subject: FLUX Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6B parameter open weights model for text-to-image generation, image editing and multi-reference generation with up to 10 reference images. The model shares core capabilities with the full FLUX 3 Image model, including native 4K generation, pixel-perfect editing, and bounding boxes for element placement. At 5.6B parameters, it is the smallest open model in its comparison group, gaining 91 Elo in text-to-image and 70 in image editing over FLUX.2 [klein] 9B with 38% fewer parameters. The release includes a base model for fine-tuning and a step distilled model, with FP8, INT8 and NVFP4 builds, available under the FLUX Kommunity License. ## Who reported on it _Outlets this record can name and link, under the first-party post each one covered. Their number is `Outlets named under its posts` above, and the rows are not totalled again. A post's own `Coverage` can be higher: it counts outlets the signal saw that this record cannot name and link._ ### On: FLUX 3 Image Klein Record: https://forck.live/items/22916-flux-3-image-klein - Unite.AI — New 5.6B-Parameter FLUX 3 Image Klein Debuts as Open-Weights Release (2026-10-15T15:15:05+00:00): https://www.unite.ai/new-5-6b-parameter-flux-3-image-klein-debuts-as-open-weights-release/ --- Record: https://forck.live/models/flux-3-image-klein Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt Current issue: https://forck.live/feed.md