Introducing Pro Mode: A Premium Option for the Photos That Matter Most

OutfitGen has always been built around a simple idea: you upload a photo, you describe the edit, and you get back a clean result in under ten seconds. That's the everyday loop, and it's the part we're most proud of — it works the same on a casual outfit experiment, a background swap for a quick social post, or a style transfer you're just playing with.

But some photos aren't everyday. A headshot for a new job. A dating profile picture. A shot you're thinking about framing. For those, you don't mind waiting a few extra seconds, and you don't mind spending a little more, as long as the result is the absolute best the tool can give you.

Today we're shipping Pro mode — an opt-in premium option on every generation that routes your photo through a heavier, more expensive model specifically trained for that kind of "this one matters" shot. Standard mode stays exactly as it is: fast, clean, ~8 seconds, 1 credit. Pro is a deliberate upgrade you pick per-generation, for the photos that earn it.

Meet Pro mode

Every tool on OutfitGen — Clothes Changer, Background Changer, Style Transfer — now has a new Quality step right above the Generate button. Two options:

Standard — 1 credit, about 8 seconds. Our everyday model, Flux 2 Edit. Fast, clean, and the default for a reason. It's what you want for quick outfit tests, casual background swaps, and anything where speed matters.

Pro — 2 credits, about 20 seconds. A premium model (Google's Nano Banana 2) that's specifically trained to produce an extra-faithful likeness. More compute per image, sharper detail in faces and hair, and a noticeably higher ceiling on what a single edit can accomplish. Built for the photos that really matter.

Here's what that looks like in practice.

This is the source photo we uploaded:

This is what Standard mode produced when asked for a red turtleneck:

And this is Pro mode, with the same photo, the same prompt:

Both results are clean, and both put her in a red turtleneck. If you're doing a casual outfit test, Standard gives you a fast, clean result you can iterate on in seconds. If you're producing a keepsake photo — a headshot, a dating shot, something you'll actually show people — Pro gives you that extra bit of faithful detail: the individual teeth, the precise eyebrow arch, the specific way the hair falls. Different tools for different jobs.

That's the feature in one sentence. Pro mode keeps your face, your face.

The technical bit (for the curious)

If you want to know what's actually happening under the hood: Standard mode uses Flux 2 Edit, a fast image-editing model we've shipped since launch. Pro mode routes your generation to Nano Banana 2, Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash image editor, which is specifically trained for a task the researchers call "subject consistency" — preserving the identity of a person, object, or scene across an edit instead of regenerating it from scratch.

Most edit models work by describing your photo in latent space, applying your prompt, and then re-rendering. The "re-rendering" step is where identity drift creeps in — the model is essentially sculpting a new face that matches its description of the old one, and "description" is lossy. Nano Banana 2 is trained to route more of the source image's features around the edit rather than through it, so distinctive traits travel through untouched.

The short version: more compute per image, more identity preservation, and a ~20 second wait instead of ~8. That's what the extra credit pays for.

Why it costs an extra credit

Honest answer: the underlying model costs us more per call. It's roughly 2x the compute of Standard, and at our current scale that shows up directly in our fal.ai bill. We could have swallowed the cost and made it free — it's tempting, because Pro is genuinely a better experience for a lot of use cases and we'd love more people to discover that. We decided against it for two reasons.

First, a lot of generations really don't need Pro. Swapping a background on a product shot, testing out an outfit idea, playing with a style — Standard is still the right tool for those, and charging 2 credits for them would feel like we were upcharging for ceremony. Better to let you pick per generation.

Second, gating Pro behind a small price gives us a way to learn. Which tools are Pro-mode driven? Which users reach for it? Does it change retention the way we hope? Making it a deliberate choice — 1 vs. 2 credits — gives us clean telemetry to answer those questions and calibrate the product from there.

Pro is available to anyone with an OutfitGen account, on any plan. If you're on the free tier, your credits work the same way — you just spend 2 at a time instead of 1 when you pick Pro. If you're anonymous and haven't signed up yet, you'll see the toggle but clicking Pro will prompt you to sign up for a free account first (there's no way around this — Pro calls our more expensive infrastructure, so we need a real account on the other end).

How to use it

There's really nothing to learn. Open any tool page — Clothes Changer, Background Changer, Style Transfer — and you'll see a new "Choose Quality" step right above the Generate button. Pick Standard or Pro, hit Generate, done.

A small thing that's easy to miss: if you toggle to Pro and you have fewer than 2 credits, the toggle tells you up front instead of letting you click Generate and fail. You'll see a little "Need 2 credits — you have 1" hint right on the Pro card, and we'll link you to the pricing page. No wasted clicks, no confusing errors.

What's next

A few things we're watching over the next couple of weeks:

• Tail latency on Pro. Our benchmarks showed Pro averaging about 20 seconds, with occasional tails up to 30. That's inside our 45-second server timeout but above the 15-second drop-off wall we watch for on free generations. Pro is opt-in and pre-paid (2 credits), so the wait is a user-chosen tradeoff, but if the p95 tail creeps up we'll tune it.

• Prompt compliance on style transfer. Pro mode is trained to preserve identity, which is exactly what you want for clothes and backgrounds. For big style transformations (anime, pop art, etc.), it's possible Pro under-edits because it's trying so hard to hold onto the source. We'll watch Style Transfer's Pro success rate and either tune the prompt template or default that tool back to Standard if it doesn't land.

(We did briefly ship Pro mode pointed at a different model — Flux Pro Kontext Max — on launch day. Our internal benchmark picked it because it was fast and looked identity-preserving on a female stock portrait, but the first real-world male portrait we tested against showed it regenerating a generic "man with beard" face regardless of prompt. We rolled back to Nano Banana 2 within hours. If you got a Pro gen in that window that didn't look like you, that's why. Credit of course refunded on any failed gens, and re-running now will use the real identity-preserving model.)

• Cost patterns. If Pro adoption is heavier than we planned for, we may revisit pricing — but not in a way that feels like a bait-and-switch. If anything changes here, you'll hear about it before we ship it.

That's the whole launch. No settings to configure, no migration to do. Next time you hit Generate, you get to choose how faithful you want the result to be. If that's the kind of thing you've been waiting on, we think you're going to like it.

Try Pro mode on the Clothes Changer →