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          "The only SDK, `@adobe/firefly-apis` 2.0.1 from June 2025, calls synchronous paths the changelog lists as removed in October 2025",
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      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Prepaid credits, 1 credit is $0.01, same price in API and Playground. FLUX.2 is priced by output megapixel. [klein] 4B from $0.014, [klein] 9B from $0.015, [pro] from $0.03 (edits from $0.045), [flex] from $0.05, [max] from $0.07. FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] $0.04, Kontext [max] $0.08, FLUX1.1 [pro] $0.04, Ultra $0.06. Batches cost the per-image price times the count (https://bfl.ai/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.01 / credit",
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        "evidence": "No machine payment. Access needs prepaid credits on a BFL account.",
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        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "docsUrl": "https://docs.bfl.ai",
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      "openapi": "https://api.bfl.ai/openapi.json",
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        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
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        "webhooks",
        "open-weights",
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        "commercial-licence"
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        "methodology": "0.3",
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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          "Per-image and per-megapixel prices published per model, from $0.014",
          "Up to 10 reference images and 4MP output on FLUX.2",
          "EU and US regional endpoints with a global endpoint that fails over",
          "Official hosted MCP server with OAuth, listed in the MCP registry",
          "OpenAPI specs, llms.txt and an errors page covering every task status"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Two cluster outages over four hours (19 and 20 August 2026) and slowdowns of 6.5 and 20 hours since",
          "Result URLs expire after 10 minutes",
          "Prompts and uploads may be used for training unless you email an opt-out",
          "Developer terms allow changing or removing parts of the service without notice",
          "No official SDK package and no free credits"
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          "Poll the `polling_url` from the submit response, never a hand-built URL",
          "Download `result.sample` straight away. It's gone after 10 minutes",
          "Stay under 24 concurrent jobs, 6 on flux-kontext-max, and back off exponentially on 429",
          "Treat 402 as out of credit, not as a retryable error",
          "Use api.eu.bfl.ai or api.us.bfl.ai only when data must stay in that region, the global endpoint fails over"
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        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.bfl.ai/v1/flux-2-pro \\\n  -H \"x-key: $BFL_API_KEY\" -H \"content-type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"prompt\":\"A serene landscape with mountains\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":1024}'\n# then GET the returned polling_url with the same x-key until status is Ready",
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      "letme": {
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        {
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        {
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        "privacy": "https://bfl.ai/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.bfl.ai",
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          "BFL GmbH (Freiburg, Germany) is the data controller for users in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK.",
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  "markdown": "Black Forest Labs FLUX API has a score of 64.2 (B) against Adobe Firefly API's 49.2 (D). Both do image generate. The largest gap is maintenance \u0026 community, 50 points.\n\n- Adobe Firefly API: grade D, 49.2/100, rank #370 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-firefly.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/adobe-firefly.json\n- Black Forest Labs FLUX API: grade B, 64.2/100, rank #186 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/black-forest-labs.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/black-forest-labs.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Adobe Firefly API for transparency \u0026 trust (+5).\n\nPick Black Forest Labs FLUX API for reliability (+10), schema \u0026 documentation (+10), agent ergonomics (+10), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+50).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Adobe Firefly API | Black Forest Labs FLUX API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 65 | Black Forest Labs FLUX API +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 88 | Black Forest Labs FLUX API +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 67 | Black Forest Labs FLUX API +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 65 | Black Forest Labs FLUX API +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 20 | Black Forest Labs FLUX API +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 23 | 73 | Black Forest Labs FLUX API +50 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 66 | Adobe Firefly API +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.2 · D** | **64.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Adobe Firefly API | Black Forest Labs FLUX API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Adobe | Black Forest Labs |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://firefly-api.adobe.io` | `https://api.bfl.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 7 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.black-forest-labs/flux-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-04-24 | 2026-09-10 |\n| Popularity | 1.1k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 1.5/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Adobe Firefly API.** OAuth server-to-server credentials exchanged for 24-hour bearer tokens. Enterprise contract only. No self-serve sign-up and no public price list.\n\n**Black Forest Labs FLUX API.** Per-image and per-megapixel prices published per model, from $0.014. Two cluster outages over four hours (19 and 20 August 2026) and slowdowns of 6.5 and 20 hours since.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Adobe Firefly API\n\n1. Call the REST async endpoints directly. `@adobe/firefly-apis` 2.0.1 targets the removed synchronous paths and has no Image 5 or upscale methods\n2. Cache the IMS token and refresh it before its 24 hours run out\n3. Poll `/v3/status/{jobId}`, back off on 429 using the retry-after header, and download results within the hour their URLs stay valid\n4. Send `precise_upsampler_v1` to Upscale. `creative_upsampler_v1` returns 422 since 2026-04-24\n5. Image 5 lives at `/v4/images/generate-async`. Image 3 and 4 stay on `/v3/images/generate-async`\n\n### Black Forest Labs FLUX API\n\n1. Poll the `polling_url` from the submit response, never a hand-built URL\n2. Download `result.sample` straight away. It's gone after 10 minutes\n3. Stay under 24 concurrent jobs, 6 on flux-kontext-max, and back off exponentially on 429\n4. Treat 402 as out of credit, not as a retryable error\n5. Use api.eu.bfl.ai or api.us.bfl.ai only when data must stay in that region, the global endpoint fails over\n\n## Other comparisons with Adobe Firefly API or Black Forest Labs FLUX API\n\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs fal image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-fal-image.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Google Imagen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-google-imagen.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Ideogram API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-ideogram.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Leonardo.Ai API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-leonardo-ai.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs OpenAI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-openai-image-api.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Recraft API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-recraft.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [Adobe Firefly API vs Stability AI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-firefly-vs-stability-ai-image.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs fal image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-fal-image.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Google Imagen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-google-imagen.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Ideogram API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-ideogram.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Leonardo.Ai API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-leonardo-ai.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs OpenAI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-openai-image-api.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Recraft API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-recraft.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Replicate image models](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-replicate-image.md)\n- [Black Forest Labs FLUX API vs Stability AI Image API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/black-forest-labs-vs-stability-ai-image.md)\n",
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