Model · Pictures

Qwen-Image

A free, downloadable model from Alibaba's Qwen team that turns descriptions into pictures and is especially good at writing text inside images, including Chinese. Open licence that allows commercial use.

Go to Qwen-Image’s website

At a glance

Open or closed: Fully open
Weights and code downloadable under a standard open licence
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Licence: Apache License 2.0 (Permissive (e.g. Apache 2.0, MIT))
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Can I sell what I make?: Yes
Apache 2.0 allows commercial use.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked on the maker's own page
Cost: Free option: Weights free to download and run yourself.
Plans below.
How you use it: On your own computer, Through another service
Diffusers is the documented route; natively supported in ComfyUI; online via Qwen Chat, fal, WaveSpeed.
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Skill needed: Technical
Inferred: local use needs Python or ComfyUI and a large GPU.
source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · inferred or from a secondary source; needs review
Made by: Alibaba Cloud (Qwen team)
Licence copyright: Alibaba Cloud. Country not stated on pages read.
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Status: Available
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What you can make with it

A picture, from a description (main use)
A picture, by changing a photo I have
A picture, a logo, icon or graphic

text to imageimage to image

Strong text rendering; editing (style transfer, add/remove objects, change text) mainly via the companion Qwen-Image-Edit models.

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Plans and prices

No paid plans listed.

source · checked 12 Oct 2026 · checked, but the page was unclear or partial

Where you can run it

Hugging Face, fal, ComfyUI, WaveSpeedAI, Runpod

Other options for “A picture, from a description”

Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Adobe Photoshop, Akool, Artbreeder, Bria, Canva AI (Magic Studio), ChatGPT Images, Civitai, Clipdrop, ComfyUI, Creatify, DeeVid AI, DiffusionBee, DomoAI, Draw Things, Dreamina, Dzine, fal, Filmora, FlexClip, FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX.1 [schnell], FLUX.1 Kontext

About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.