Model Card | Qwen-Image-2.1
Qwen-Image-2.1 (Alibaba Qwen): open-sourced 2026-09-20, a 7B visual generation module (32-layer single-stream DiT) plus a Qwen3-VL 8B encoder, keeping the same 7B class as predecessor 2.0 but adding native transparent-image generation (64-channel RGBA VAE) and multi-image editing with up to 10 reference images; Qwen's own Qwen-Image-Bench score is 60.28, ahead of Nano Banana 2.0 (59.82) and GPT Image 1.5 (59.65) ⚠️ self-reported, not independently reproduced; the SGLang team independently verified a single-sample RGBA PSNR of 60.69 dB; licensed under the Qwen Research License Agreement, non-commercial only, with no official hosted API pricing; for agent development it can remove a separate background-removal/compositing step, making it a fit for e-commerce asset generation and multi-scene storyboard workflows