fal doubles Flux 3 Image edit price to $0.048 per megapixel
What happened
Between the Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026 captures of fal's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Flux 3 Image (blackforestlabs/flux-3/edit-image) price doubled from $0.024 to $0.048 per megapixel unit; units per $1 fell from 41.67 to 20.83 megapixels. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price increase) with an upward direction. The current page lists Audio Model APIs at $0.1 per 1,000 characters (MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD) + $0.2 per 100 seconds (ElevenLabs Sound Effects v2), 3D Model APIs at $0.08 per generation (Hunyuan Motion 1B) + $0.01 per credit (Tripo H3.1), Serverless Compute at $6 per H200 GPU hour + $4 per RTX PRO 6000 GPU hour, Video Model APIs at $0.05 per second of video output (MiniMax H3 Max) + $0.07 per second of video output (Kling 2.5 Turbo Pro) and Image Model APIs at $1 per unit (GPT Image 2) + $0.5 per 100 megapixels (Z Image Turbo).
It lands 4 days after fal's previous change, "fal adds Flux 3 Image editing at $0.024 per megapixel to Model API" (Oct 12, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "fal hikes GPU rates up to 33%, adds GB200 tier and Nano Banana 2/Pro models" (Oct 5, 2026) and "fal: H100 GPU list price increase ($3.99→$4.50/h)" (Aug 5, 2026). fal has been tracked since 2026-07-15.
In the same window Together AI, Huggingface, Runwayml, Anthropic and Modal also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- — · Price+100%
Before$0.024
After$0.048 per megapixel unit
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Price | $0.024 | $0.048 per megapixel unit | +100% |
Values as written on fal's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of fal's pricing page (fal.ai) from Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where price reads $0.024 and then $0.048 per megapixel unit.
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fal, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 16, 2026increasefal doubles Flux 3 Image edit price to $0.048 per megapixel · this change
- Oct 12, 2026improvedfal adds Flux 3 Image editing at $0.024 per megapixel to Model API
- Oct 5, 2026increasefal hikes GPU rates up to 33%, adds GB200 tier and Nano Banana 2/Pro models
- Aug 5, 2026increasefal: H100 GPU list price increase ($3.99→$4.50/h)
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- Together AIOct 16Together AI makes Muse Spark Open free until Oct 18, adds Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
- HuggingfaceOct 16Huggingface adds Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPUs to Spaces from $2.75/hr
- RunwaymlOct 15Runwayml Max plan adds Unlimited Wan 3.0 and Wan 3.0 Prime until October 18
- AnthropicOct 12Anthropic API launches Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/$0.50 per MTok, Haiku 4.5 goes Legacy
- ModalOct 5Modal adds $0.04/GiB network egress fee, with up to 100 TiB free per plan
Questions about this change
Did fal raise prices in October 2026?
Yes. Pulse captured fal's pricing page on Oct 15, 2026 and again on Oct 16, 2026 and recorded 1 price increase: $0.024 → $0.048 per megapixel unit (+100%).
What changed on fal's pricing page between Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026?
Price: $0.024 → $0.048 per megapixel unit (+100%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does fal change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 3 other pricing-page changes for fal in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "fal adds Flux 3 Image editing at $0.024 per megapixel to Model API" on Oct 12, 2026; fal has been tracked since 2026-07-15.