Model · Alibaba (Qwen)

Qwen-Image

What is it?

Image model family from Alibaba's Qwen team: image generation and editing, strong in-image text rendering. Open weights on Hugging Face (official Qwen account). Licences: Apache 2.0 for Qwen-Image, Qwen-Image-Edit (2509, 2511) and Qwen-Image-2512; Qwen-Image-2.1 (2026-09-20) is under the Qwen Research License, non-commercial use only without a separate licence. Qwen-Image-2.1 Pro and Turbo APIs on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.

How much?

Free

Where to use it?

Go to Qwen-Image

Official source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1

Our score

Overall score: quality, price, security. Separate environmental score: electricity, water (estimates). Never influenced by affiliation. How we score

Versions

Qwen-Image versions

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2026-10-09Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
8-step version; Pro and Turbo APIs live the same day.
2026-09-20Qwen-Image-2.1
Open weights under the Qwen Research License (non-commercial).
2026-02-10Qwen-Image-2.0
Announcement (official README); open weights not verified for this version.
2025-12-31Qwen-Image-2512
Apache 2.0.
2025-12-23Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
Apache 2.0.
2025-12-19Qwen-Image-Layered
Layer decomposition, open weights.
2025-09-22Qwen-Image-Edit-2509
Multi-image editing, Apache 2.0.
2025-08-04Qwen-Image
Apache 2.0 open weights (official QwenLM repo).
2025-08Qwen-Image-Edit
Image editing, Apache 2.0 (official Qwen Hugging Face).

Official announcements only (vendor, press release, docs or official account). Month-only date (YYYY-MM) when the official source gives only the month. No unverifiable version is listed.

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Type and models

ModelAlibaba (Qwen)Open weightsopen-weightsAPI

Own models

Qwen-ImageQwen-Image-EditQwen-Image-2.1

Official newsofficial sources