Qwen Image specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Qwen Image
Author: Alibaba

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Aug 2, 2025

Provider: Alibaba
Release date: Aug 2, 2025; Hugging Face
Parameters: 20.4B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Image; Hugging Face
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 41 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 20 GB at 8-bit, about 10 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
40	Text-to-ImageImage · as “Qwen-Image (2512)”	Image	1,125	71

Versions and release history

2 versions in this line since Aug 2, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

Version	Released	Source
Qwen Image 2.1	Sep 14, 20268 weeks ago	Hugging Face
Qwen Imagethis model	Aug 2, 20251 year ago	Hugging Face

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