Qwen-Image-2.1
Qwen-Image-2.1 is a released vision model with open-weight; 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
- Family
- Qwen Image
- Released
- 2026-09-20
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Qwen Research LicenseCommercial use: non-commercial
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
Qwen-Image-2.1 is Alibaba Qwen's open-weight unified text-to-image generation and image-editing model, announced 2026-09-20 (first-party @Alibaba_Qwen tip + GitHub News 2026.09.20; Qwen RESEARCH LICENSE Release Date September 20, 2026). First-party HF/GitHub: 7B parameters in the visual generation component (32 Single-Stream DiT layers); native RGBA/transparency generation and editing; up to 10 reference images with local edit control (circles, painted annotations, masks) and identity preservation for people/products; improved typography, portrait lighting, and textures; Diffusers day-0 via QwenImage21Pipeline; also ComfyUI / vLLM-Omni / SGLang / LightX2V day-0. Public ungated weights on Hugging Face Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1 and ModelScope; GitHub QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1.
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
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.
API versions
Qwen-Image-2.1Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1qwen-image-2.1No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.