Black Forest Labs ships FLUX Video Edit at 3 cents a second

Black Forest Labs released FLUX Video Edit on September 10, 2026, an editing model that takes a clip and a written instruction and changes only the part of the shot the instruction names, priced at $0.03 per second of output video.

The company announced the tool in a post on its own account, describing it as a new capability for FLUX 3 Video and calling it "the fastest and lowest cost video editing model in the world." It says its internal benchmarking puts the model ahead of other leading models on the accuracy and precision of edits.

What it does is narrower than a generator's job and more useful than it sounds. Send an existing clip with a prompt and the model removes, adds or replaces objects, changes the setting, restyles the footage, or changes text and dialogue. Everything the prompt does not mention stays as shot, which the documentation says means length, framing, camera, timing and audio all carry over from the source. The examples the company published include deleting a single object from the bottom of a frame, recolouring one item of clothing, and swapping one character for another.

The pricing is per second of output, and because the output keeps the source clip's length, an edit costs the same whatever it changes. A ten-second clip is $0.30. That single rate for the [fast] variant is the whole of the documentation's price list for the tool.

The API is one POST and a poll. Clips go in as an HTTP URL or base64, the instruction is a prompt of one to 4,096 characters, and a safety tolerance setting from 0 to 4 defaults to 2 for prompt and frame moderation. The endpoint is https://api.bfl.ai/v1/flux-tools/video-edit-v1.

The limits are documented rather than implied. FLUX Video Edit accepts no style or motion reference video, no image input, no audio-only input and no masks, and it cannot extend a clip; the documentation points to FLUX 3 Video's continuation feature for that. A clip is edited up to 15 seconds, per GIGAZINE. Nor will it invent room that is not there: asking for more spoken words than the source's speech has time for will not render them all. Reference support for images, video and audio is scheduled to be added.

Black Forest Labs is described by GIGAZINE as an AI company based in Germany and the United States, and it is the lab behind the FLUX image family. FLUX 3 Video became publicly available in August 2026 with 1080p output and generations of up to 20 seconds, per GIGAZINE. On the price and quality chart the company published with this release, FLUX Video Edit sits below Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3 on cost and above them on its own measured edit score, a comparison that comes from Black Forest Labs rather than an independent test.

For a creator, the interesting part is the editing model rather than the generator: fixing one object in an otherwise good shot has been the job that sends a clip back through a full re-render. Whether the precision claim holds outside the company's own examples is untested here.

FLUX Video Edit is available now through the Black Forest Labs API, documented at docs.bfl.ai.