LLM Reference

Qwen Image

Released
2025-08-31
Last refreshed
2026-07-10
Status
Researched 135d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedMultimodalVision

Qwen Image is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2025-08-31
Parameters
20B
Architecture
Diffusion Transformer
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
Created by

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 1 route · fal API

About

Qwen Image by Alibaba. A 20B Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) for text-to-image generation, achieving commercial-grade Chinese and English text rendering. Open source under Apache 2.0 on HuggingFace (Qwen/Qwen-Image). Part of Alibaba's Qwen/Tongyi AI ecosystem. Available via Fal API (fal-ai/qwen-image).

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
fal API--
ServerlessPartial

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

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Migration checks

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