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Model Pareto

Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro vs Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro

In image generation, Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro scores 54.1 and Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro 47.1 on the 0–100 quality scale. Both cost about $0.040 per image.
Qwen-Image-3.0-ProQwen-Image-2.1-Pro
Focus

Image generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 42 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Z-Image Turbo, Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. 2 models are not plotted: Qwen-Image-2.1, Ideogram 4.5.

2 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Qwen-Image-2.1, Ideogram 4.5

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro
    Quality
    54.1
    Rank
    #16/44
    Price
    $0.040/img
    Speed
    11s

    vs Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro: +7.0 quality · 1× price

  • Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
    Quality
    47.1
    Rank
    #22/44
    Price
    $0.040/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro: −7.0 quality · 1× price

Overview

Metric
Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro
Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
Lab
Alibaba Qwen
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Jul 21, 2026
Oct 9, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.040Best
$0.040Best
Time per image
11s
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Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro
Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
Image generation
54.1±3.5Best
#16/44Verified
47.1±5.2
#22/44Verified

Image generation benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro
Qwen-Image-2.1-Pro
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#16/421088BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #15Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1092
  3. #16Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1088
  4. #17Seedream 5.0 Pro1078
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#19/421057VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #18Qwen-Image-3.01076
  3. #19Qwen-Image-2.1-ProFew votes1057
  4. #20Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1044
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-17
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#19/351083BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1186
  2. #18Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1084
  3. #19Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1083
  4. #20Luma UNI 1 Max1077
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#22/351070VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1186
  2. #21HiDream-O1-Edit-1.51071
  3. #22Qwen-Image-2.1-ProFew votes1070
  4. #23Ideogram 4.5Few votes1070
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-17
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#10/321254Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #10MAI-Image-2.51254
  3. #10Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1254
  4. #12Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1250
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
~#15/33~1227Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #14GPT Image 1.51239
  3. ~#15Qwen-Image-2.1-ProEstimated1227
  4. #15Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1223
estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
~#15/27~1366Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #14Qwen-Image-2.11367
  3. ~#15Qwen-Image-3.0-ProEstimated1366
  4. #15Ideogram 4.51347
estimated from related benchmarks
~#16/27~1342Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #15Ideogram 4.51347
  3. ~#16Qwen-Image-2.1-ProEstimated1342
  4. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1334
estimated from related benchmarks
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-3.0-ProEstimated86.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~85.7%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-2.1-ProEstimated85.7%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~87.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-3.0-ProEstimated87.4%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.0%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-2.1-ProEstimated87.0%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks