FLUX.1 Schnell

by black-forest-labs · ★★★★½ 4.7 · 1.9M downloads · — · flux

Install with mods

mods install flux-schnell

⚡ Running mods install flux-schnell without --variant auto-selects the best variant for your GPU VRAM.

Available variants: fp16, fp8
mods install flux-schnell --variant fp16

🔒 This model requires accepting terms on HuggingFace and running mods auth huggingface first.

About

Fast text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs.

Optimized for speed — best with 1-4 steps, CFG 0 (distilled model).

Apache 2.0 license — free for commercial use.

Variants

Variant	Format	Size	VRAM	Install
fp16	safetensors	23.8 GB	24+ GB	`mods install flux-schnell --variant fp16`
fp8 ⓘ	safetensors	11.9 GB	12+ GB	`mods install flux-schnell --variant fp8`

Dependencies

📦 These models are automatically installed when you run mods install flux-schnell. No extra steps needed — mods resolves and downloads all dependencies for you.

vae FLUX VAE (ae.safetensors) Flux models require the Flux-specific VAE (ae.safetensors) text encoder T5-XXL Text Encoder (fp16) T5-XXL for prompt processing text encoder CLIP-L Text Encoder CLIP-L for secondary text encoding