LLM Reference

Qwen Image

Released
2025-08-31
Last refreshed
2026-05-09
Status
Researched 48d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedMultimodalVision

Qwen Image is a released vision model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
  • Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
Specifications
Released
2025-08-31
Parameters
20B
Architecture
Diffusion Transformer
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Created by

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Founded 2017
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

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).

Qwen Image is an open-source model. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Qwen Image yet.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.