Alternatives to FLUX.2-dev

FLUX.2-dev alternatives

FLUX.2-dev's smallest published quantization is 11.98 GiB. The models below do the same job with a different trade — less memory, comparable size, or a more permissive licence.

From the file· sizes from summed file bytes

Meaningfully smaller

under 70% of its smallest quantization
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
FLUX.2-klein-9B9.1B3.71 GiB29other
Qwen-Image-Edit-251120.4B4.13 GiB36apache-2.0
FLUX.1-dev11.9B3.75 GiB37other
Krea-2-Turbo12.8B2.78 GiB33other
FLUX.2-klein-4B3.9B1.70 GiB21apache-2.0
Z-Image-Turbo6.2B2.41 GiB30apache-2.0
Chroma8.9B3.99 GiB273apache-2.0
FLUX.1-schnell11.9B3.73 GiB37apache-2.0

Comparable in size

within ±40%, so a like-for-like swap
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Boogu-Image-0.1-Turbo10.3B12.69 GiB5—
Cosmos-Predict2-2B-Text2Image14.3B11.52 GiB10other

More permissively licensed

licences that allow commercial use
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen-Image-Edit-251120.4B4.13 GiB36apache-2.0
FLUX.2-klein-4B3.9B1.70 GiB21apache-2.0
Z-Image-Turbo6.2B2.41 GiB30apache-2.0
Chroma8.9B3.99 GiB273apache-2.0
FLUX.1-schnell11.9B3.73 GiB37apache-2.0
Qwen-Image-251220.4B6.83 GiB17apache-2.0
Qwen-Image-Edit-250920.4B6.50 GiB51apache-2.0
Qwen-Image20.4B6.58 GiB43apache-2.0