Qwen-Image-2.1
Alibaba Qwen · · 2 days after Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate
Partially verified
0 of 1 published values traced to a source2 primary sources, 2 archived
Why this status
Cited to the lab's own announcement and the official model card. Not verified because the release date could not be found in any cited primary source — the value may be correct, but this dataset cannot yet show where it came from. Modalities from the model card's own pipeline_tag "text-to-image" on Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1.
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Qwen open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1, a unified text-to-image generation and image editing model built for efficiency, with mixed-granularity attention and prefix KV-cache reuse. Qwen states 7B parameters in its visual generation component (32 single-stream DiT layers); that is one component, not the whole model, so no total parameter count is recorded. Numbered below Qwen-Image-3.0 but released after it: this is Qwen's open-weight image line, where 3.0 is served by API.
Details
| Released | September 20, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba Qwen |
| Family | Qwen-Image |
| Lineage | after Qwen-Image |
| Era | Agentic systems |
| Type | Image generation |
| Modalities | Text → Image |
| Capabilities | Not recorded |
| Weights | Open weights |
| Licence | qwen-research |
Current information, elsewhere
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- Weights and model card Hugging Face ↗
Sources
Record status: partly verified · confidence 60/100 · 2 of 2 primary
Cited to the lab's own announcement and the official model card. Not verified because the release date could not be found in any cited primary source — the value may be correct, but this dataset cannot yet show where it came from. Modalities from the model card's own pipeline_tag "text-to-image" on Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1.
- qwen.ai Official announcement archived
- huggingface.co Model card archived
Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.
Qwen-Image family
- Qwen-Image August 4, 2025
- Qwen-Image-3.0 July 16, 2026
- Qwen-Image-2.1 September 20, 2026
What changed from Qwen-Image
Compared with the previous release in this series. A field appears only when both records state a value — where one does not, it is listed as uncomparable rather than dropped, because a gap in our research is not a finding about the model.
Not comparable: Licence (not disclosed for both releases); Capabilities and modalities (not researched on both releases)
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