Head to head · Images · updated Oct 17, 2026
Fooocus vs FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
Fooocus scores 75 to FLUX (Black Forest Labs)'s 72 on public evidence for generate images from text, and they rank #2 and #3 there. Both are free to start. Numbers below are the same public signals the ranking uses, recomputed nightly — nothing here is sponsored.
Fooocus
Simplified offline Stable Diffusion XL app that hides sampler settings behind a Midjourney-style prompt box.
+ Produces good SDXL results with zero tuning, making it the easiest local generator to start with.
− In maintenance mode and tied to SDXL, so it does not support newer models like Flux.
FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
Family of image models (schnell, dev, Pro, Kontext) with open weights and a hosted API from the original Stable Diffusion team.
+ Best prompt adherence and hand/text rendering of any open-weight image model, with Kontext adding instruction-based editing.
− The dev weights are non-commercial, and the 12B model needs a 16GB+ GPU to run comfortably.
Side by side
public evidence| Fooocus | FLUX (Black Forest Labs) | |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence score / 100 | 75 | 72 |
| GitHub stars | 53,551 | 26,021 |
| Hacker News stories, 30d | 0 | 0 |
| Release-feed mentions, 30d | 0 | 0 |
| Last activity | 319 days ago | 442 days ago |
| Pricing | Open source · free | Open source · schnell/dev weights free; Pro via API per image |
| Platforms | windows, linux | api, linux, web |
| Maker | lllyasviel | Black Forest Labs |
Which one?
Pick Fooocus if
- you want the stronger public evidence (75 vs 72)
- you need it on windows
Best for beginners wanting local SDXL.
Pick FLUX (Black Forest Labs) if
- you need it on api, web
Best for high-fidelity open-weight generation.