How to Use the FLUX.1 Schnell API: text to image integration guide (2026)

FLUX.1 Schnell is a text to image model by WaveSpeed: Fast, affordable text-to-image generation. Create one image per request in square, landscape, or portrait format. On Framedance you can try it in the playground (exact quote shown before you submit), then call it through one unified REST API — about $0.003 per typical run.

TL;DR

· Task type: text to image, provided by WaveSpeed

· Pricing: about $0.003 per typical run ($1 = 100 credits), pay-as-you-go

· Getting started: playground (exact quote before submit) → create an API key → one POST request

· Tunable parameters: 4 (see the table below)

· No platform watermark; commercial use allowed (per the Terms of Service)

What can you build with FLUX.1 Schnell?

Social media visuals and covers: batch-generate on-theme images and schedule them straight away.

E-commerce and ad creatives: product scenes, banner backgrounds, and multi-variant visuals for A/B tests.

Concept art and ideation: characters, environments and style boards, iterated cheaply and fast.

Pipeline chaining: outputs feed directly into image-to-video or face swap as source material.

How do you call this API?

1. Sign up on Framedance and create a key on the API Keys page (signup bonus credits can only be used on selected models).
2. Submit a task with the cURL example below, passing your key as a Bearer token.
3. Poll the task status with the returned task_uuid and read the output URLs when completed.

# 1) Submit — returns { "task_uuid": "..." }
curl -X POST "https://www.framedance.ai/api/v1/marketplace/run/wavespeed-ai/flux-schnell" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "input": {
    "prompt": "A ceramic vase on a wooden table, natural window light, editorial photography",
    "size": "1024*1024",
    "seed": -1,
    "output_format": "jpeg"
  }
}'

# 2) Poll until status is "completed", then read the output URLs
curl "https://www.framedance.ai/api/v1/marketplace/run/tasks/TASK_UUID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

What parameters does it take?

prompt (Prompt): required

size (Image size): optional, default "1024*1024"

seed (Seed): optional, default -1

output_format (Output format): optional, default "jpeg"

How do you write prompts for FLUX.1 Schnell?

1. Subject first: lead with the actor and action, then add environment, lighting and style ("an astronaut sprinting through a neon street in the rain, cinematic, shallow depth of field").
2. Concrete nouns beat stacked adjectives: "85mm portrait lens, golden-hour backlight" works far better than "very beautiful, ultra high quality".
3. Change one variable per iteration: pin the seed to reproduce a result, tweak a single phrase at a time so you know what actually moved the output.
4. State negatives positively: instead of "no blur", ask for "sharp focus, crisp details".

How much does it cost?

Pay-per-use in credits. About $0.003 per typical run ($1 = 100 credits); the exact price varies with parameters like resolution or duration, and the playground shows the exact quote before you submit.