Qwen-Image
Open Weights
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba's open-source 20B-parameter image foundation model (August 2025), an MMDiT architecture that ranks first across nine public benchmarks including GenEval, DPG, and OneIG-Bench. It leads on complex text rendering (Chinese and English at commercial quality) and precise image editing.
Strengths
- Open-source 20B MMDiT image model under Apache 2.0
- Ranks first on nine public benchmarks (GenEval, DPG, OneIG-Bench)
- Best-in-class complex text rendering (Chinese and English)
- Precise image editing capabilities
- Self-hostable with a growing open ecosystem
Caveats
- 20B model needs a substantial GPU for local inference
- Default resolution 1328x1328 (multi-scale for higher)
- Newer ecosystem than SD/FLUX for tooling
- Vendor
- Alibaba Cloud
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Release Date
- 2025-08-04
- Modalities
- textimage
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Open weights under Apache 2.0 - free to download and self-host; also served via the Alibaba Cloud / DashScope API.