Historical Image Archival for Paid Users

We've shipped a long-requested change to how we keep your generated images around: as a paid user, every image you've created on or after June 1, 2026 is now automatically archived to long-term storage. No clicking "save," no race against an expiring URL — your work is yours to come back to.

A bit of history

For most of FluxAI's life, generated images were treated as transient artifacts. The model would return a URL, you'd download what you wanted, and the rest would eventually fall off the edge of the world. That worked fine when most sessions ended with a single download — but as paid users began stacking up dozens of variations across multi-step Kontext edits, video frames, and character refinements, "I'll come back for those later" stopped being a safe assumption.

We've now closed that gap. The archival pipeline runs in the background for every paid generation, copies the result to durable storage, and links it to your account so your gallery, history, and re-download flows all see the same thing months later.

What exactly gets archived

• Cutoff date: any image generated on or after June 1, 2026.
• Who's covered: all active paid plan users, on every tool that produces an image — text-to-image, image-to-image, Kontext, inpainting, upscaler, face swap, and the rest.
• Where it goes: durable cloud storage, accessible from your account history exactly the way fresh generations are.

You don't need to opt in, toggle a setting, or migrate anything. If you're on a paid plan, it's already happening.

One scope detail: only images that land in your history

Archival applies to images that get saved to your history — i.e. the ones you can later find in your gallery / generation history. Most of our tools work this way by default.

A few tools, however, are designed as "generate-and-download" utilities: they hand you the result file directly and don't keep a record on your account afterwards. For those, behavior is unchanged — nothing is saved server-side, so there's nothing to archive. If you're using one of those tools, treat the download as your only copy.

When in doubt, check whether the result shows up in your history shortly after generation. If it does, it's covered.

What about videos?

For now, videos generated by paid users still follow the existing 7-day retention policy — they live in storage for a week after generation and then expire. This update is image-only for the moment. Long-term video archival is on our roadmap but isn't ready to ship yet, so if you've produced a video you want to keep, download it within the 7-day window the same way you do today.

One caveat at the free → paid boundary

There's one edge case worth being upfront about:

If you generated an image while on the free plan and then upgraded later, the images created during your free period may not be in the archive.

The archival job only persists images for accounts that were paid at the moment of generation. We don't retroactively pull older free-tier outputs into long-term storage when you upgrade — those followed the original short-lived URL behavior and in most cases will already have expired by the time you become paid.

Practical takeaway: if you have free-tier images you want to keep, download them before upgrading. After you upgrade, every new generation is archived automatically.

Run into a problem?

If you hit something that doesn't look right — an image in your history that won't display, a download link that 404s, a gallery thumbnail that loads but the full image doesn't — please tell us. The faster we hear about it, the faster we can fix it (and check whether anyone else is hitting the same case).

Two ways to reach us:

• In-app Feedback — click your avatar in the top-right and pick Feedback. This is the fastest path because it sends along your account info so we can look up the exact generation.
• Email — [email protected]. Please include the approximate generation time and, if possible, the image URL or task ID so we can trace it.

Thanks for sticking with us through the upgrade. As always, the goal is to make FluxAI a place where the work you make stays the work you keep.