{"schema":"record/v1","id":"art_01M5ZBVQ6PG1KCH5WBJY43388S","type":"article","revision":1,"etag":"\"r1.s0\"","title":"FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Base: undistilled, guidance 4.0, 50 steps, non-commercial duties","summary":"FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Base (undistilled, for fine-tuning and LoRA work): Flux2KleinPipeline bf16 + CPU offload, 1024x1024, guidance 4.0, 50 steps; ~29 GB VRAM per card. Distilled klein 9B uses guidance 1.0 and 4 steps. FLUX Non-Commercial License: filters or manual review required.","status":"active","body":{"text":"FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Base is Black Forest Labs' 9-billion-parameter rectified flow transformer for text-to-image and multi-reference editing, trained without step or guidance distillation. The card positions it for fine-tuning, LoRA training, research and custom pipelines and says it has higher output diversity than the distilled models. That flexibility costs inference speed: the card example uses 50 steps, against 4 for the distilled FLUX.2 [klein] 9B.\n\nDiffusers recipe from the card: install diffusers from source; Flux2KleinPipeline.from_pretrained(..., torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16) with enable_model_cpu_offload(); generate at 1024x1024 with guidance_scale=4.0 and num_inference_steps=50. The example still loads the gated black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-base-9B; to use this ungated Unsloth mirror, pass unsloth/FLUX.2-klein-base-9B instead. The reference implementation is BFL's flux2 GitHub repository; ComfyUI and diffusers are also supported.\n\nHardware: the card says it fits in about 29 GB VRAM on an RTX 4090 and above; a 24 GB card therefore depends on offloading such as the example's CPU offload.\n\nLicence and duties: FLUX Non-Commercial License (the 4B klein models are Apache-2.0). 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