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# FLUX Schnell

Black Forest Labs · Images · standard

Half a credit an image. The volume tier, for when you need twenty of something.

## What it costs

- Resolution · 1 MP: 0.5 credits (≈ $0.01)

Dollar figures are approximate, at the Starter plan's rate of $19.00 for 800 credits.

## What it takes

- **Aspect ratios**: 1:1  2:3  3:2  3:4  4:3  4:5  5:4  9:16  16:9  21:9
- **Reference images**: Not accepted

## When to reach for it

The cheapest way to make an image here, and it exists for quantity. Mood boards, layout studies, twenty variations of a composition before committing, placeholder art for a storyboard that will be re-rendered later: anything where seeing a spread matters more than any single frame being right.

It takes no reference images. That is the defining limitation and it is not a small one: nothing about a Schnell render can be pinned to a subject you already have. If the image needs to contain a specific person, product or character, this is the wrong model no matter how many attempts you are willing to fund.

Ten aspect ratios, 1 MP, one setting, nothing to tune. Treat it as a sketching tool rather than a production one. Twenty Schnell renders cost less than one Nano Banana 2 at 4K, and twenty compositions teach you more than one crisp wrong one, which is the whole argument for keeping a tier this cheap in the catalog.

## How to prompt FLUX Schnell

Describe what you want in your own words and Kuro writes the prompt for you. If you would rather write it yourself, this is what FLUX Schnell responds to.

Text to image and nothing else: the prompt is the whole input, so anything the picture must show has to be written down.

It exists for volume — rapid look exploration, mood boards, thumbnail-quality drafts, many variations of a layout before you spend on a hero model. Keep prompts short and high-signal; it ignores long lists of constraints.

Vary one thing at a time across a batch, so you can tell which change did what. Settle the layout here, then make the final on a model that can see references.

### What it can't do

- No reference images. It cannot see a product, a face or a character, so a likeness cannot be held; a saved Subject contributes only its written description.
- Output is fixed at one megapixel.
- Editing one of its pictures moves the edit to a model that can read images, because this one cannot.
- It is a draft engine. Pictures people will keep belong on another model.

### Use something else when…

- The picture must look like a specific person, product or character: [Seedream 5 Lite](https://meetkuro.com/models/seedream-5-lite.md).
- It needs legible lettering: [GPT Image 2.5 Flare](https://meetkuro.com/models/gpt-image-2.5-flare.md).
- You need a vector file: [Recraft V4.1 SVG](https://meetkuro.com/models/recraft-v4.1-svg.md).

## Guides that cover it

- [Which image model to reach for, and when](https://meetkuro.com/guides/choosing-an-image-model.md): Twelve image models, from half a credit to twenty-one. What each one is for, where the resolution setting changes the price, and when the cheap tier is right.

## FLUX Schnell is one pick in the composer.

Every model in this catalog runs from the same prompt bar, priced in the same credits.

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## 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. Model catalog: https://meetkuro.com/models/