Qwen-Image
A 20B image model released under Apache 2.0, notable for accurate text rendering in Chinese and English.
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Qwen-Image vs GPT Image
Qwen-Image (Alibaba) and GPT Image (OpenAI) both sit in Image. Qwen-Image is the cheaper entry point at Pricing not specified in the provided documentation.. GPT Image shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (5 vs 1). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Qwen-Image Alibaba | GPT Image OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Image | Image |
| Version | Qwen-Image | gpt-image-2.5-sunburst |
| Entry cost | Pricing not specified in the provided documentation. | from $20/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Open Source free | ChatGPT Free free · ChatGPT Plus $20 · API free |
| Model stack | Qwen · Qwen-Image · Qwen-Image-2 · Qwen-VL | DALL-E · DALL-E 3 · GPT Image 1.5 · GPT-4o · gpt-5.6 · gpt-6-astra · gpt-image-2 · gpt-image-2.5-sunburst |
| Context window | n/a | n/a |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 1 | 5 |
| Origin | China | Global |
| Capabilities | Text rendering, Instruction editing, Open weights (Apache 2.0), ControlNet, vision understanding, multimodal, open-source, multimodal model | Text rendering, Image editing, Reference images, Transparent backgrounds, Streaming previews, Image generation, Vision / Image analysis, Multimodal processing |
GPT Image
Text-to-image and editing with strong instruction following and text rendering.
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