Qwen-Image-2.1 (7B)
Open image model with a 7B generation component that unifies text-to-image and editing, with native transparent-image generation and editing.
Folds generation and editing into one compact model (the earlier line used 20B MMDiT plus separate Edit models). GitHub calls it Qwen's most powerful open-source image generation model.
- Date
- Sunday, 20 September 2026
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Kind
- open-weights
- Access
- open weights (restricted license)
Qwen blog dated 2026-09-20 (HF repo created 2026-09-14). The Hugging Face card uses the 'qwen-research' license, not Apache 2.0, unlike earlier Qwen-Image releases; the hosted qwen-image-2.1-pro followed on 2026-10-02 per Model Studio. Benchmark numbers not opened.
Sources
- releasebot.io/updates/qwen
- api.github.com/orgs/QwenLM/repos?sort=created&direction=desc&per_page=50
- huggingface.co/api/models?author=Qwen&sort=createdAt&direction=-1&limit=60
- huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1
- www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models
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