Qwen-Image 3.0 🧠 Model Open source

What it is

Qwen-Image is Alibaba's image generation and editing family. The newest hosted model is Qwen-Image-3.0 (14 September 2026) on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, after Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro (July 2026) and Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (June 2026). On the open side, Qwen-Image-2.1 (7B visual generator, September 2026) joined the 20B Qwen-Image, Qwen-Image-2512 and Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 on Hugging Face.

Key features

• Complex text-and-image layouts from prompts of up to 4.5K tokens, with stable text in 12 languages (Qwen-Image-3.0)
• Dense layouts such as newspapers and exam papers, down to about 10-pixel text (3.0-Pro)
• Native transparent (RGBA) images and up to 10 reference images for edits (2.1)
• Output up to 2048x2048 in ratios from 1:1 to 9:16
• Identity-preserving edits and multi-person consistency in the Edit models

Where you can use it

Qwen Chat (free) and the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API. Krea offers Qwen 2512, Image 2.1 and Image 3; ComfyUI supports Qwen-Image natively and Qwen Image 3 through partner nodes; InvokeAI supports Qwen Image and Qwen Image Edit locally. The weights are also on Hugging Face and ModelScope.

Pricing and rights

The original Qwen-Image and 2512 weights are Apache 2.0, so commercial use is allowed. Qwen-Image-2.1 is under the Qwen Research License; read it before commercial use. Qwen-Image 3.0 is API-only, billed per image on Alibaba Cloud; we did not find a public per-image price to quote. There is no paid consumer plan.

Who it is for

Designers making text-heavy graphics such as posters, slides, menus and infographics, especially in Chinese or multiple languages, and ComfyUI users who want an open alternative to FLUX.

Verdict

Qwen-Image is a leading choice for text in images, and its older open weights are genuinely permissive. The best new versions are cloud-only, and licensing differs from one release to the next.