Qwen

Qwen-Image-2.1

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Open-weight unified text-to-image generation and image-editing model in the Qwen family. Alibaba's September 21, 2026 post and the GitHub README say the visual generation component has 7 billion parameters and 32 Single-Stream DiT layers, with native transparent (RGBA) output, up to 10 reference images, and local edits via circles, paint, or masks. Weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope under the Qwen Research License. Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo is a later eight-step checkpoint of this architecture.

Latest update Oct 11, 2026

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Current status

Weights released September 20, 2026. No deployed product image was in availableMedia.

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In the news1

  1. Qwen ships Image 2.1 Turbo and hosted APIs

    Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo on Oct. 9 as an 8-step checkpoint of the 7B Qwen-Image-2.1 generator for text-to-image and image editing. Hosted Pro and Turbo APIs went live the same day on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, with the Turbo weights available for local Diffusers inference. Model Studio lists Turbo image generation at $0.016 per image on the Singapore international endpoint.

    github.com www.alibabacloud.com

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