Starting today, Black Forest Labs’ flagship models are available directly from Microsoft on Azure AI Foundry. FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX1.1 [pro] can be accessed through Azure AI Foundry, offering customers an enterprise-ready path to deploy our state-of-the-art text-to-image and image-to-image foundation models with the scale, security, and simplicity of Azure.
BFL’s collaboration with Microsoft started from our earliest days when we partnered with Azure to build our training and inference clusters. Since then, we’ve worked hand in hand with Microsoft to optimize our model performance and make it easier for customers to access our models. Today, everything from exploration to deployment of our models becomes faster with FLUX.1 Kontext [pro] and FLUX.1.1 [pro] available through Azure’s powerful ecosystem.
Why this matters
With FLUX models now on Azure, you get:
Microsoft-backed Service Level Agreements
Azure-native deployment and observability
Access via pay-as-you-go or Provisioned Throughput (fungible PTUs), meaning you can flexibly use your quota and reservations across any Direct from Azure models.
Adherence to Microsoft's Responsible AI standards
Enterprise security, governance, and scalability
Zero compromise in speed and quality
Microsoft-backed Service Level Agreements
Azure-native deployment and observability
Access via pay-as-you-go or Provisioned Throughput (fungible PTUs), meaning you can flexibly use your quota and reservations across any Direct from Azure models.
Adherence to Microsoft's Responsible AI standards
An e-commerce company looking to integrate our models for product photography,
A financial services company looking to streamline marketing materials, or
A studio wanting to consistently build out a visual story
Enterprise security, governance, and scalability
Zero compromise in speed and quality
If you don’t have an Azure subscription, you can sign up for an Azure account here.
Navigate to Azure AI Foundry at ai.azure.com
Search the model name, e.g. “FLUX Kontext” for image editing, or "Flux 1.1", for text to image, in the model catalog
Open the model card in the model catalog on Azure AI Foundry.
Click on “deploy” to obtain the inference API and key and also to access the playground.
You should land on the deployment page that shows you the API and key in less than a minute. You can try out your prompts in the playground.
You can use the API and key with various clients
What you can build