--- title: "FLUX.2 Pro vs FLUX.2 Max" description: "The same resolution ladder, nearly the same references, and a better model on the upper rung. When the gap is worth paying for." canonical_url: "https://meetkuro.com/compare/flux-2-pro-vs-flux-2-max/" locale: "en" models: ["flux-2-pro", "flux-2-max"] --- # FLUX.2 Pro vs FLUX.2 Max Iterate on Pro, render the keeper on Max, and only when the image is the finished deliverable. - **[FLUX.2 Pro](https://meetkuro.com/models/flux-2-pro.md)** — Black Forest Labs' workhorse, and one of the cheapest reference-capable models here. from 2 credits · Black Forest Labs - **[FLUX.2 Max](https://meetkuro.com/models/flux-2-max.md)** — The top of the FLUX.2 ladder, for when the render itself is the deliverable. from 5 credits · Black Forest Labs ## Side by side | — | FLUX.2 Pro | FLUX.2 Max | | --- | --- | --- | | Cheapest | 2 credits | 5 credits | | Aspect ratios | 1:1 2:3 3:2 3:4 4:3 4:5 5:4 9:16 16:9 | 1:1 2:3 3:2 3:4 4:3 4:5 5:4 9:16 16:9 | | Reference images | 7 | 7 | Read from Kuro's model catalog when this page was built. This page shows no outputs from either model; the prices and limits are the comparison. ## What each costs **FLUX.2 Pro** - Resolution · 0.5 MP: 2 credits (≈ $0.05) - Resolution · 1 MP: 2.5 credits (≈ $0.06) - Resolution · 2 MP: 4 credits (≈ $0.10) - Resolution · 4 MP: 6.5 credits (≈ $0.15) **FLUX.2 Max** - Resolution · 0.5 MP: 5 credits (≈ $0.12) - Resolution · 1 MP: 6 credits (≈ $0.14) - Resolution · 2 MP: 8.5 credits (≈ $0.20) - Resolution · 4 MP: 13.5 credits (≈ $0.32) Dollar figures are approximate, at the Starter plan's rate of $19.00 for 800 credits. ## Which one Same nine aspect ratios, seven reference images on both, same four-step resolution ladder from 0.5 to 4 megapixels; Pro alone takes an eighth reference, at 1 MP and above and in five ratios (1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16). Within the shared limits, moving between them costs no rework, because nothing has to be re-specified. Only the price per attempt changes. Pro at 1 MP is 2.5 credits, which makes it one of the cheapest reference-capable models in the whole catalog. Max at 1 MP is 6, and at 4 MP the two are 6.5 and 13.5. Roughly double, across the ladder. What the extra buys shows up in the places that survive scrutiny: edges, materials, and the coherence of complicated light. On a thumbnail or a feed image it is invisible. On a hero shot that will be printed, or a key frame the rest of a sequence gets built from, it is the difference between usable and not. Which makes the pattern obvious and worth stating anyway, because it applies to every ladder in this catalog: explore on the cheaper rung, where an attempt costs about half as much and you can afford twice as many, then spend the expensive credits on the one frame that ships. Iterating on Max is how a budget disappears without the work getting better. Flex sits between the two and is worth a look when a render keeps coming out nearly right. ## When neither is the right pick Each model's prompting guide names the jobs it hands to another model. Both lists, as the guides write them: ### Use something other than FLUX.2 when… - The picture needs lettering, or a long literal instruction: [GPT Image 2.5 Flare](https://meetkuro.com/models/gpt-image-2.5-flare.md). - It needs precise instruction-following with references, or 21:9 or a strip: [Nano Banana 2.1](https://meetkuro.com/models/nano-banana-2.1.md). - It is photoreal product detail: [Seedream 5 Pro](https://meetkuro.com/models/seedream-5-pro.md). - You are drafting with no references: [FLUX Schnell](https://meetkuro.com/models/flux-schnell.md). ## Both are one pick in the same composer. Switching models does not move your references or your library. --- ## About Kuro Kuro is an AI picture studio: prompt-driven images, clips, voice-overs and music, and storyboard-backed films with consistent characters across every scene. Agents connect over MCP and can generate directly: ``` claude mcp add kuro https://api.meetkuro.com/mcp --transport http ``` The app is at https://app.meetkuro.com and requires an account. Each guide, model page, comparison and free tool page on this site (not a tool's variants, and not the index pages) has a Markdown twin at its own URL plus `.md`, and so do /benchmarks/, the English /agents/ page (as /agents.md) and the MCP tool reference. Comparisons: https://meetkuro.com/compare/