FLUX Erase costs a flat 10 credits per run on VdoBloom — about $0.50 on Lite monthly, $0.33 on Lite annual, $0.36 on Pro 800 monthly and $0.25 on Pro 2,000 annual — and that number never changes, because the model has no resolution tiers, no quality tiers and no per-megapixel billing. One mask, one run, ten credits. The free 10 credits every new account gets cover exactly one erase, which is enough to see whether the model handles your kind of image before you pay anything.

What the 10 credits actually buy

FLUX Erase is Black Forest Labs’ dedicated removal model, and on VdoBloom it runs through Runware as the model id bfl:flux@erase. It is worth being precise about what it does, because the pricing only makes sense once you know the mechanic: FLUX Erase is purely mask-driven and ignores your prompt entirely. The service takes two inputs — the source image and a mask image where white marks the area to erase — and reconstructs the erased region from the surrounding pixels. There is no “remove the bin and put a plant there” instruction. It removes, and it fills with what the scene implies.

In the picker at /dashboard/images/edit/ the model is listed as FLUX Erase with the note “Upload image 1 (source) + image 2 (mask — white areas will be erased)”. It accepts a maximum of two images, defaults to a 1:1 aspect ratio, and carries a 4.2 user rating with a MODERATE content label. An optional dilate setting expands the mask boundary by up to 50 pixels, which matters for pricing in a roundabout way: getting the dilation right on the first attempt is the difference between one 10-credit run and three.

The same 10 credits, priced by plan

Credits are the only currency on VdoBloom, so the dollar cost of an erase is just 10 × your effective credit rate. That rate depends entirely on which plan you bought, and it varies by a factor of almost four across the ladder.

Plan	Price	Credits	Cost per credit	Cost of one FLUX Erase run
Free account	$0	10 one time	—	Free (one run)
One-time pack, smallest	$2.49	75, never expire	$0.033	$0.33
Lite, monthly	$15/mo	300/mo	$0.050	$0.50
Lite, annual	$10/mo	300/mo	$0.033	$0.33
Pro 800, monthly	$29/mo	800/mo	$0.036	$0.36
Pro 2,000, annual	$49/mo	2,000/mo	$0.025	$0.25
Pro 10,000, annual	$169/mo	10,000/mo	$0.017	$0.17

Two things fall out of that table. First, annual billing is the single biggest lever on the price of an erase — Lite annual lands at the same effective rate as the one-time pack while giving you 300 credits a month rather than 75 once. Second, if you are erasing at volume, the Pro tiers are where the cost per removal drops below a quarter. The full ladder, including every Pro step between 800 and 50,000 credits, is on the pricing page.

How FLUX Erase compares to other edit models on price

Ten credits is mid-table for an image edit on VdoBloom. It is worth knowing what sits on either side of it before you commit a workflow to this model.

Edit model	Credits per run	Cost on Lite monthly	Best for
P-Image-Edit	6	$0.30	Fast prompt-based edits, up to 10 reference images
Auto — Smart Edit	7	$0.35	Letting the chain pick the model for a general instruction
Flux Kontext Pro	7	$0.35	Instruction edits that preserve the rest of the frame
FLUX Erase	10	$0.50	Clean removal of a masked region, no prompt
Flux Kontext Max	10	$0.50	Premium instruction edits and in-image typography
FLUX Outpainting	12	$0.60	Extending the canvas beyond the original frame
Nano Banana 2	15	$0.75	Multi-reference edits, up to 14 images, 1K–4K

The honest read: if you can describe the removal in words and the object is not entangled with the subject, a 7-credit instruction edit is cheaper and often sufficient. FLUX Erase earns its extra three credits when you need exactly this region and nothing else touched — a logo on a garment, a stray hand at the edge of a product shot, a reflection in glass — because a mask is a far more precise instrument than a sentence. You can compare the two approaches side by side on the FLUX Erase model page and the Flux Kontext Max page.

The cost that catches people out: retries

Nobody budgets for one erase. They budget for one image, and that image takes two or three runs because the first mask was too tight and the fill bled, or too loose and it ate part of the subject. At 10 credits a run, a three-attempt image costs 30 credits — $1.50 on Lite monthly, $0.75 on Pro 2,000 annual.

What does not cost you: a generation that fails. VdoBloom deducts credits up front and refunds them automatically when an edit errors out, so a provider timeout or a rejected request returns your 10 credits rather than burning them. You are only charged for runs that produce an image, including ones you dislike.

Three habits cut the retry count materially. Paint the mask slightly larger than the object and let the dilate setting handle the feathering, rather than tracing the outline exactly. Erase one object per run instead of masking four scattered items at once — a single failed region does not then cost you the whole pass. And if the background behind the object is busy or structurally complex (tiled floors, text, faces), expect the model to invent something; that is a job for outpainting or an instruction edit, not for a pure erase.

A worked budget

Say you have 40 product photos from a shoot and each needs one distracting item removed. At a realistic 1.4 runs per image (most land first time, a handful need a second mask), that is 56 runs, or 560 credits.

Lite monthly at $15 for 300 credits: two months of allowance, or roughly $28 of credits.
Lite annual at $10/mo: about $18.70 of credits.
Pro 800 monthly at $29 for 800 credits: fits in one month with 240 credits left over, about $20.30 of the allowance consumed.
Pro 2,000 annual at $49/mo: about $13.70 of credits, a quarter of one month’s allowance.

For a job of that size the Pro 800 monthly plan is the natural fit — you get the whole batch done inside one cycle with headroom for the inevitable re-dos, and the leftover credits carry the rest of your image work. Paid plans also download without a watermark and carry commercial rights, which is the point of the exercise for product photography. One legal note that has nothing to do with credits: if you are editing a photo of an identifiable person, you need that person’s consent to use the result.

Ready to run one? Open the editor at the AI image editor, pick FLUX Erase from the model list, and the exact credit cost is shown before you press generate — on this model it will always read 10.

Frequently asked questions

Does FLUX Erase cost more at higher resolution?

No. Unlike resolution-tiered models such as Nano Banana Pro or Seedream 5.0 Pro, FLUX Erase has a single flat entry of 10 credits in VdoBloom’s cost table. There is no 1K, 2K or 4K price step to choose between.

Do I get charged if the erase fails?

No. Credits are deducted before the run and refunded automatically if the edit errors out. You are charged for results, not attempts that never returned an image.

Can I write a prompt to control what fills the erased area?

Not on this model. FLUX Erase is purely mask-driven and the prompt field is ignored — it reconstructs the region from surrounding context. If you need to specify a replacement, use an instruction-editing model such as Flux Kontext Max or Auto — Smart Edit instead.

How many erases do the 10 free credits cover?

Exactly one. New accounts get 10 free credits with no card required, and one FLUX Erase run consumes all of them. That is deliberate — it is enough to test the model on a real image before you decide whether to buy credits.

Do credits expire?

One-time credit packs never expire. Subscription credits arrive with each billing cycle. Either way, the price of a FLUX Erase run in credits is identical — only your effective dollar-per-credit rate changes.

FLUX Erase Pricing: What One Object Removal Costs on VdoBloom