flux-1-schnell - API in Egypt, billed in EGP

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FLUX.1 [schnell] is a 12 billion parameter rectified flow transformer capable of generating images from text descriptions. This model offers cutting-edge output quality and competitive prompt following, matching the performance of closed source alternatives. Trained using latent adversarial diffusion distillation, FLUX.1 [schnell] can generate high-quality images in only 1 to 4 steps.

Modality

image

Region

US

Weights

Open weights

Published

13 Sept 2026

Pricing

Price

0.0285 EGP per 1024p image

The provider reports the exact charge on every response.

  • Priced per image unit, not per image: one unit is a 1024p image at 1 step, and a default request costs 0.0285 EGP.
  • Charge = unit price x (width / 1024) x (height / 1024) x (steps / 1). Smaller images cost less; larger images and more steps cost more.
  • The exact charge is reported by the provider on every response and is what you pay.

Use it via the API

flux-1-schnell works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — point the base URL at https://backend.sovereigneg.com/v1 and use your SovereignEG API key.

Run inference

OpenAI-compatible — POST /v1/images/generations — drop-in for any OpenAI SDK.

import base64
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://backend.sovereigneg.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
)

response = client.images.generate(
    model="flux-1-schnell",
    prompt='Aerial night photo of the floodlit Giza pyramids under a starry sky, an Egyptian flag spread on the sand, and a glowing "SovereignEG" wordmark in a clean geometric typeface across the sky',
)

with open("image.png", "wb") as f:
    f.write(base64.b64decode(response.data[0].b64_json))

Frequently asked questions

Where is flux-1-schnell hosted?

flux-1-schnell is served from US (US-hosted inference).

Is flux-1-schnell an open-weights model?

Yes — flux-1-schnell is an open-weights model. You call it through the SovereignEG API like any other catalog model, with per-token EGP billing.

How do I use flux-1-schnell via the API?

flux-1-schnell is available through the OpenAI-compatible SovereignEG API: point your SDK's base URL at https://backend.sovereigneg.com/v1 and call /v1/chat/completions with model "flux-1-schnell" and your API key.