Ideogram
Ideogram
12
Image generation with legible text
- Version
- 4.5
- Cost
- from $8/mo
- Model
- GPT Image
Qwen-Image
Alibaba · #17 most active of 19 in Image
A 20B image model released under Apache 2.0, notable for accurate text rendering in Chinese and English.
50
Trust score · Mixed
2 data points checked · 2026-11-03
Current version
Qwen-Image
Entry cost
Open-source model available for free download and local inference.
Changes / 30d
0
The short answers
- What is the latest version of Qwen-Image?
- The current shipped version of Qwen-Image is Qwen-Image.
- How much does Qwen-Image cost?
- Qwen-Image has no published flat entry price. Open-source model available for free download and local inference.
- What AI model does Qwen-Image use?
- Qwen-Image runs primarily on Qwen.
Source: Alibaba — qwen.ai · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow
Capabilities
- Text rendering
- Instruction editing
- Open weights (Apache 2.0)
- ControlNet
- vision understanding
- multimodal
- open-source
- multimodal model
- multilingual
- text generation
- image understanding
- Vision understanding
- Multimodal
- Multilingual
- Vision Understanding
- Open Source
- open-weight
- image input
- image generation
- image-to-text
Pricing
Open Source
Free to download and run locally
Free
Entry price over time
Geek mode
Models under the hood
- disclosed
Qwen
Alibaba Group
- disclosed
Qwen-Image
Alibaba
- disclosed
Qwen-Image-2
Alibaba
- inferred
Qwen-VL
Alibaba
Context window
n/a
Public API
yes
Multi-model routing
yes
Stack signals
- transformers
- llama.cpp
- ollama
- vllm
- sglang
- tgi
Shared model stack
Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.
- QwenAlibaba · 7 products
- Qwen-ImageAlibaba · 1 product
- Qwen-Image-2Alibaba · 1 product
- Qwen-VLAlibaba · 1 product
green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.
Reported scale
Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.
No public usage figure on record for this product.
Public market scorecard
Alibaba investor relationsAlibaba trades as NYSE: BABA. Figures below are as reported for Q1 FY2027 on Aug 5, 2026; market levels are the close on Aug 6, 2026 and are a reference marker, not a live quote.
Q1 FY2027 revenue
~¥250B
+9% YoY
- Cloud intelligence
- +25% YoY
- Qwen-driven
- Qwen open models
- most-downloaded open family
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9
Frontier open and hosted image models
- Version
- FLUX 3
- Cost
- Pay-as-you-go API pricing with no subscriptions/seat fees. Pricing varies per image resolution, video second, or megapixel.
- Model
- FLUX 1.1 [pro]
Stable Diffusion
Stability AI
8
Open-weight image models
- Version
- Stable Diffusion 3.5
- Cost
- from $19/org/mo
- Model
- more
Canva Magic Studio
Canva
6
Generative design suite for non-designers at consumer scale.
- Version
- Canva Developers SDK
- Cost
- Free to develop / Developer SDK documentation
- Model
- Leonardo Phoenix
Seedream
ByteDanceChina
6
ByteDance's text-to-image model, strong on Chinese typography.
- Version
- 5.0 pro / flash
- Cost
- from $0.02/mo
- Model
- Doubao Seedream 5.0 flash
Figma AI
Figma
5
Prompt-to-design, Make and AI editing inside the design tool.
- Version
- Figma Design AI
- Cost
- Free tier · from $3/mo
- Model
- Claude
Change history
- capability
- capability
- capability
- model
Qwen-Image added Qwen-VL to its model stack
Qwen, Qwen-Image, Qwen-Image-2Qwen, Qwen-Image, Qwen-Image-2, Qwen-VL
source - capability
- capability
New capabilities: Vision Understanding, Open Source
14 tracked16 tracked · +Vision Understanding, Open Source
source - capability
New capabilities: Vision understanding, Multimodal, Multilingual
11 tracked14 tracked · +Vision understanding, Multimodal, Multilingual
source - capability
- capability
New capabilities: multilingual, text generation
8 tracked10 tracked · +multilingual, text generation
source - capability
- version
- model
Qwen-Image added Qwen-Image to its model stack
Qwen, Qwen-Image-2Qwen, Qwen-Image, Qwen-Image-2
source - capability
- model
- capability
- version
Qwen-Image compared
Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Image.
How to cite this page
Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/qwen-image
APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Qwen-Image — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/qwen-image
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-qwen-image,
author = {{Tomorrow}},
title = {Qwen-Image — version, pricing and model stack},
year = {2026},
publisher = {AlienSquad},
howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/qwen-image}},
note = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}