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Qwen-Image-2.1

Alibaba Qwen's open-weights unified text-to-image and editing model (7B generation component); top open model on both arenas.

  • Alibaba (Qwen)
  • Open weights
  • Released Sep 2026

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Where it ranks

  • B
    Image generation
    Models · Local · 1,042 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)
  • B
    Image editing
    Models · Local · 1,083 on Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)

Facts

Vendor
Alibaba (Qwen)
Family
Qwen-Image (open weights)
Released
Sep 2026
Weights
Open: download and run it yourself
License
Qwen Research License (qwen-research)
Parameters
7.1B
Access
Free (open weights)
Last verified
18 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark results

BenchmarkResultEntry on the leaderboardAs ofSource
Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (AA-Image-Editing v2.1)1,083Qwen-Image-2.1
AA-Image-Editing v2.1 overall; rank 19 of 71, 6312 samples; page shows no last-updated date
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)1,042Qwen-Image-2.1
AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 21, 5468 samples; page shows no last-updated date
18 Oct 2026artificialanalysis.ai
LMArena Image Edit Arena1,369qwen-image-2.1
from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (image_edit/latest, overall, published 2026-10-06; rank 18 of 59, 21941 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches
6 Oct 2026huggingface.co
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena1,223qwen-image-2.1
from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (text_to_image/latest, overall, published 2026-10-07; rank 19, 11441 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches
7 Oct 2026huggingface.co

Where you can use it

Earlier versions

  • Qwen-Image-2512 · Dec 2025
  • Qwen-Image · 4 Aug 2025

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