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Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo

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Eight-step accelerated checkpoint of Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image generation and image editing, using the same 7B visual generation architecture. Alibaba released the weights and hosted Pro and Turbo APIs on Oct. 9, 2026 via GitHub, Hugging Face and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.

Latest update Oct 10, 2026

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  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.

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