fal doubles Flux 3 Image edit price to $0.048 per megapixel
What happened
Between the Oct 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026 captures of fal's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Flux 3 Image (blackforestlabs/flux-3/edit-image) Model API price doubled from $0.024 to $0.048 per megapixel (41.67 to 20.83 megapixels per $1). Pulse files it as a pricing change (price increase) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Nov 9, 2026) lists Audio Model APIs at $0.10 per 1,000 characters (MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD) + $0.20 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) + $0.50 per 100 megapixels (Z Image Turbo).
It lands 3 days after fal's previous change, "fal doubles Flux 3 Image edit price to $0.048 per megapixel" (Oct 16, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "fal adds FLUX 3 Max video model at $0.085/sec" (Oct 20, 2026), "fal adds Flux 3 Image editing at $0.024 per megapixel to Model API" (Oct 12, 2026) and "fal adds Flux 3 image editing to rate card at $0.024 per megapixel" (Oct 9, 2026). fal has been tracked since 2026-07-15.
In the same window Together AI, Runway, Huggingface, 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.
- Model API · Price+100%$0.024$0.048 per megapixel
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model API | Price | $0.024 | $0.048 per megapixel | +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 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where model api price reads $0.024 and then $0.048 per megapixel.
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fal, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 26, 2026decreasefal slashes MiniMax H3 Max video pricing 40% to $0.03 per second
- Oct 20, 2026improvedfal adds FLUX 3 Max video model at $0.085/sec
- Oct 19, 2026increasefal doubles Flux 3 Image edit price to $0.048 per megapixel · this change
- Oct 16, 2026increasefal doubles Flux 3 Image edit price to $0.048 per megapixel
- Oct 12, 2026improvedfal adds Flux 3 Image editing at $0.024 per megapixel to Model API
- Oct 9, 2026improvedfal adds Flux 3 image editing to rate card at $0.024 per megapixel
- Oct 5, 2026increasefal hikes GPU rates up to 33%, adds GB200 tier and Nano Banana 2/Pro models
- Oct 2, 2026increasefal raises H100 GPU rate to $2.49/hr, adds GB200, doubles MiniMax video price
- Oct 1, 2026packagingfal publishes Audio and 3D model API pricing, expands video/image tables to 10 endpoints
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- Together AIOct 20Together AI adds NVIDIA B200 post-training at $11/GPU/hr, $9 launch promo
- RunwayOct 20Runway drops Max plan's expired Unlimited Wan 3.0 promo, prices hold
- HuggingfaceOct 16Huggingface adds Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 GPUs to Spaces from $2.75/hr
- 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 12, 2026 and again on Oct 19, 2026 and recorded 1 price increase: Model API: $0.024 → $0.048 per megapixel (+100%).
What changed on fal's pricing page between Oct 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026?
Model API price: $0.024 → $0.048 per megapixel (+100%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 12, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does fal change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 7 other pricing-page changes for fal in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "fal doubles Flux 3 Image edit price to $0.048 per megapixel" on Oct 16, 2026; fal has been tracked since 2026-07-15.