LLM Reference

Qwen-Image-2.1

Released
2026-09-20
Last refreshed
2026-09-21
Status
Researched today
Open weightsCommercial use: non-commercialMultimodalVisionImageMultimodalOpen Source

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
Specifications
Released
2026-09-20
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Open weights
License
Qwen Research LicenseCommercial use: non-commercial
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
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-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

VisionMultimodal

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-2.1