Flux 2 Flex: lock this still before you buy motion (5cr)

Flux 2 Flex is the stills row. Animate after approval. Do not generate the pack inside the video model. The catalog description: “Flexible image generation and editing model from the Flux 2 family with versatile creative controls.” Category is text-to-image. No image required for a generate. Credits: 5. No duration. No video resolution. Content type is image.

Flux 2 Flex is how you get a frame you can actually sign. A video model asked to “make the product and then orbit it” will invent a label, then animate the invention. That is two mistakes in one bill. Spend 5 credits on the still. Lock it. Then open an image-to-video row.

Five credits is a still, not a clip

The text-to-image tool is the door. Aspect ratios: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4. Features: text_to_image, image_editing, flexible. That last word is the Flex pitch — generation and editing in the Flux 2 family — but the category is still text-to-image. Start from a prompt when you have no plate. Switch to an instruction on the same family when the plate exists and one object is wrong. Do not bounce to a new generate because the sky is slightly off.

No 4K token is listed on this record. Do not sell Flex as a 4K hero factory. If the campaign key visual must be 4K, pick a stills row that lists 4K, or upscale after lock. Five credits is the catalog sticker, billed per megapixel in the price matrix. It is cheap enough to iterate. It is not free enough to skip the lock.

The Flux roster is the image family. Black Forest Labs’ video work is a different provider key. Do not look for Flux 2 Flex on a video duration menu. It will not be there.

Lock means someone would ship the PNG

Approval is not “I like the vibe.” Approval is: the label reads, the face is the face, the crop is the crop you will animate. Show the still to the person who can say no. Then animate. The image-to-video tool is the next door, not a second text-to-image with motion adjectives.

If Flex’s edit path is enough — same still, one object — stay on Flex and spend another 5 credits. If the still is a poster with lettering that Flex smeared, that is a specialist stills row, not a reason to animate the smear. Lettering jobs have their own catalog members. Flex is the versatile generate/edit, not the typography claim.

The ranked stills list is best AI image generator. The family ranking is best Flux model. Use Flex when you want a 5-credit still with those five aspect ratios and the option to edit without leaving the family. Use a video row only after the PNG would survive a screenshot.

Do not generate the pack inside the video model

Video credits are larger. Video takes longer to inspect. Video will happily resample the product every roll. The pack shot is a stills problem. Flux 2 Flex is one of the stills answers: 5 credits, text-to-image, optional edit, no native audio because there is no audio on an image. Animate after. Not during.

If the next file is a 4s orbit of this SKU, the still is the contract for that orbit. If the next file is a 15-second talking scene, the still is at most a style frame — and you may not need Flex at all. Match the stills row to the stills job. Match the video row to the video job. Flex is only the first of those.

FAQ

Does Flux 2 Flex make video?

No. Content type is image. Category is text-to-image. Animate on a video row after you approve the still.

Do I have to upload an image?

Not for a generate. requires_image is false. If you already have a locked still and need a change, use the edit behaviour the description names rather than rolling a new identity.

Is this 4K?

No resolution is listed on this record. Treat Flex as a stills row with a 5-credit sticker, not as a 4K guarantee.

Why lock before motion?

Because motion copies the still. A wrong label in a 5-credit PNG is a cheap fix. A wrong label in a 40-credit clip is a cousin you will animate twice.