🟢 Is Black Forest Labs (FLUX) Down?

No — Black Forest Labs (FLUX) is operational

Last checked: · Uptime: 97.66% · AIWatch Score: 43 (Degrading)

Last incident: Nov 2, 17:49 UTC — Europe compute outage (89h 16m)

Black Forest Labs (FLUX) is ranked #37 of 37 AI services by AIWatch reliability score · Monthly Reports →

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Component Status
Image Generation Services 11 components
FLUX 1.1 [pro]
FLUX.1 [pro]
FLUX.1 [dev]
FLUX 1.1 [pro] Ultra
FLUX.1 Fill [pro]
FLUX.1 Canny [pro]
FLUX.1 Depth [pro]
FLUX .1 Kontext [pro]
FLUX.1 Kontext [max]
FLUX.2
FLUX.2 [klein]
Finetuning
API (api.bfl.ai)
Video Generation Services 1 components
Flux.3
API Europe (api.eu.bfl.ai)
API US (api.us.bfl.ai)

Recent Incidents · Last 7 days

Europe compute outage
Nov 2, 17:49 UTC · Resolved · 89h 16m · critical
Timeline · 4 updates
Investigating · Nov 2, 17:49 UTC
Traffic to Europe endpoint impacted at this point. Investigation has been started
Identified · Nov 3, 11:12 UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Identified · Nov 3, 11:26 UTC
If your setup allows processing outside Europe, the global endpoint (api.bfl.ai) and api.us.bfl.ai are operating normally and accept the same API keys.
Resolved · Nov 6, 11:04 UTC
We restored api.eu.bfl.ai on Nov 5. If you still see errors, contact support@blackforestlabs.ai.

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About Black Forest Labs (FLUX)

AIWatch Data: Black Forest Labs (FLUX)'s reported uptime is 97.66%. Based on AIWatch data from the last 30 days, it experienced 1 incident with an average recovery time of 89h 16m.

Black Forest Labs develops the FLUX family of generative models and provides API access at api.bfl.ai for image and video generation and editing.

When FLUX is down, apps generating or editing images or video via api.bfl.ai will fail. Creative pipelines and design tools that integrate the FLUX API lose their generation capability until service recovers.

This page provides real-time status and recent incident details; uptime history is shown only when the official source publishes sufficient comparable records — updated every 5 minutes by AIWatch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is FLUX down right now?

Check the live status indicator at the top of this page. AIWatch monitors Black Forest Labs every 5 minutes and shows real-time operational status.

Why is the FLUX API failing?

Black Forest Labs may be experiencing high demand, specific model-tier degradation, or upstream infrastructure issues. Check this page for active incidents.

What are alternatives to FLUX?

For image generation, Stability AI provides the Stable Diffusion API, Replicate hosts FLUX and other image models, and OpenAI provides image generation via the API. AIWatch shows current availability.

How do I check Black Forest Labs status?

You can check FLUX status on this page, on the official Black Forest Labs status page at status.bfl.ml, or on the AIWatch dashboard at ai-watch.dev.

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