Qwen-Image-2.1

Alibaba's Qwen team open-weight 7B image model unifying generation and editing with native transparent-PNG output, research-license only.

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Overview

Qwen released Qwen-Image-2.1 on September 20, 2026, a 7-billion-parameter open-weight image model that unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in one system and writes transparent PNGs natively via a real alpha channel. It accepts up to 10 reference images in a single pass, and weights landed simultaneously on Hugging Face, ModelScope, and GitHub with day-zero support in ComfyUI, Diffusers, vLLM-Omni, and SGLang. The model ships under a research-only license, so it can be downloaded and tested but not shipped in a commercial product without a separate grant from Alibaba. Around October 9, 2026 Qwen added Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-step distilled checkpoint (CFG=1 with prefix KV caching) of the same 7B architecture, under the same Qwen Research License.

This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.

Key features

  • 7B-parameter visual generation component
  • Unifies text-to-image generation and image editing in one model
  • Native alpha-channel support for transparent PNG output
  • Accepts up to 10 reference images per generation/edit pass
  • Day-zero support in ComfyUI, Diffusers, vLLM-Omni, and SGLang
  • Turbo checkpoint generates in 8 denoising steps; resolutions up to 2752x1536 (16:9)

Use cases

  • Generating or editing images with transparency for design/compositing workflows
  • Reference-guided image editing using multiple source images
  • Research on open-weight multimodal image generation (non-commercial)

Pricing

Free open-weight download for research use; research-only license prohibits commercial deployment without a separate license from Alibaba.

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Dates and sources

Released
20 Sept 2026
Record updated
15 Oct 2026
Record last checked
15 Oct 2026

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