FLUX.2 Small Decoder offers faster, lower-VRAM drop-in replacement for FLUX.2 decoder

Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2 Small Decoder, a distilled VAE decoder that works as a drop-in replacement for the standard FLUX.2 decoder on Hugging Face. It decodes about 1.4x faster and uses about 1.4x less VRAM at decode time, with ~28M decoder parameters versus ~50M in the full decoder and minimal quality loss. It is available under the Apache 2.0 license and is compatible with FLUX.2-klein-4B, FLUX.2-klein-9B, FLUX.2-klein-9b-kv, and FLUX.2-dev.