Pending benchmarksTracking since Oct 19, 2026
Is FLUX 3 Max state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 19, 2026; no independent results yet.
A post-trained image-to-video model from fal Research, built in partnership with Black Forest Labs and available on fal.
Announced facts
The details so far
- Lab
- fal
- Announced
- Oct 19, 2026
- API
- Live
- Open weights
- Unknown
- Type
- Post-trained image-to-video model
- Partner
- Black Forest Labs
- API
- Available on fal
- Earlier models
- Separate from Black Forest Labs' Flux 3 Video
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
Next steps
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
Self-reported
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: a 10-second 720/768p video in about 12 seconds.
Lab claim: tied for #1 in image-to-video quality on independent third-party benchmarks (not verified here).
Receipts
Sources
LABfal announcement on Xx.com/fal/status/2112251022047412492 · Oct 19, 2026Tracking continues until an independent board lists it.