Searching 'Flux models' misses the FLUX.3 video roster

Image Flux and Black Forest Labs video are two catalog keys on purpose; a merged hub would answer the wrong query.

Search “Flux models” and you land on stills: FLUX.2, Kontext, Pro, Schnell. Search “FLUX.3 video” and you want text-to-video, first-and-last-frame, extend. Those jobs do not share an input, a meter, or a “best” table. Versely files them as two provider keys — Flux for the image family, Black Forest Labs for the video work — same company, two rosters, so a query for one does not return the other as if they were interchangeable rows.

Flux is the image key

The Flux hub’s parent note is the whole split: Flux is Black Forest Labs’ image family. FLUX.3 video models are filed under the Black Forest Labs key, listed separately, with their own roster.

What the image hub actually groups:

• FLUX.2 — slugs prefixed flux-2-. Flux 2 Max is the quality end of that line; Flex, Flash, and the Klein distillations sit on the same key.
• FLUX Kontext — Flux Kontext and its Max sibling, instruction-based edits, not a video mode.
• FLUX Pro and 1.1 — including Flux 1.1 Pro.
• FLUX Schnell — Flux Schnell, the throwaway-draft row.

/best/best-flux-model ranks that image pool: every Flux model Versely runs, all image, ordered by leaderboard position then job cost. It is not a video ranking wearing a Flux label. Asking it “which Flux for a 10-second clip” is how you pick a still generator and then wonder where the MP4 is.

Siblings on the Flux hub point at Black Forest Labs, Recraft, and Qwen — other image families, not a secret video drawer.

Black Forest Labs is the video key

The BFL hub is explicit in the other direction: this roster is Black Forest Labs’ video work only. Their image family ships under the Flux provider key. Same company, two keys, and the FLUX.3 video models are the half that a search for “Flux models” does not return.

The lines on that hub:

• FLUX.3 text to video — Flux 3 Text to Video. Prompt in, clip out, native audio.
• FLUX.3 image to video — the published spec page in that group is Flux 3 First Last Frame to Video: a defined start frame and end frame, interpolation with native audio, 5–20 seconds.
• FLUX.3 extend — Flux 3 Extend Video continues an existing clip beyond its final frame. Source constraints on that row: MP4, under 50 MB, under 15 seconds.

The Flux image hub carries a cross-key note the other way: BFL also ships video here, and those models are not rows in the image roster. They have their own spec pages. That note is a list of links, not a merge. You leave /providers/flux on purpose.

BFL’s siblings are Flux, LTX, and Wan — video neighbourhood, not “more stills from the same lab.”

Why a merged hub would answer the wrong query

A provider hub earns its URL by answering “show me everything this brand has” without mixing jobs that do not compare.

If Flux and BFL were one table:

• A stills query would be padded with four video rows that do not take the same inputs and do not bill as a flat image call.
• A video query would be padded with Kontext edits and Schnell drafts.
• /best/best-flux-model would have to rank a first-last-frame clip against a 1-credit still, which is not a ranking. It is two catalogs colliding.

The catalog already knows they are different provider strings: "Flux" versus "Black Forest Labs". The hubs follow that cut. Recraft is one capability and three generations of it, so it stays one hub. Qwen’s video work is filed under Wan and Happy Horse for the same reason Flux video is not on /providers/flux. Company is not the query. The job is.

A merged “Black Forest Labs (all products)” page would satisfy a brand search and fail every production search. The production searches are the ones that have a next click: generate a still, or generate a clip.

How to search without missing the other half

• Stills, edits, drafts — /providers/flux. Pick a FLUX.2 / Kontext / Pro / Schnell row. Rank inside that set on /best/best-flux-model.
• Clips, keyframes, continuation — /providers/black-forest-labs. Pick text-to-video, first-last-frame, or extend. Do not ask the Flux best table to rank them.
• The company view — open both hubs. The parent notes exist so you do not have to guess. /providers is the rest of the map.

If someone on the team says “just use Flux” for a talking shot, they are holding the image key. Send them the BFL roster. If they say “FLUX.3” for a product still, send them Flux 2. The names share a syllable. The keys do not.

Do not invent a third hub that concatenates the two rosters “for convenience.” Convenience is how the wrong row gets a credit. Two keys is the convenience: each query has a page that is only the answer.

FAQ

Are Flux and Black Forest Labs different vendors on Versely?

No. Flux is BFL’s image family. FLUX.3 video is BFL’s video family. They are two catalog keys for one company so a stills search and a video search do not share a table.

Why doesn’t /best/best-flux-model include FLUX.3 video?

Because that page is filtered to the Flux provider key, and those models are all image. Video lives on /providers/black-forest-labs. Mixing them would rank a clip against a still.

Where do I go for FLUX.3 text-to-video?

Flux 3 Text to Video, listed on the Black Forest Labs hub, not on /providers/flux.

Can I treat Kontext as a video model?

No. Flux Kontext is an image edit row on the Flux key. Continuation of a clip is Flux 3 Extend Video on the BFL key.