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Model Pareto

Qwen-Image-3.0 vs Qwen-Image-2.1

In image generation, Qwen-Image-3.0 scores 48.9 and Qwen-Image-2.1 48.6 on the 0–100 quality scale. Qwen-Image-2.1 has no listed API price; Qwen-Image-3.0 costs $0.030 per image.
Qwen-Image-3.0Qwen-Image-2.1
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
    Quality
    48.9
    Rank
    #19/44
    Price
    $0.030/img
    Speed
    6.2s

    vs Qwen-Image-2.1: +0.3 quality · price n/a

  • Qwen-Image-2.1
    Quality
    48.6
    Rank
    #20/44
    Price
    —
    Speed
    —

    vs Qwen-Image-3.0: −0.2 quality · price n/a

Overview

Metric
Qwen-Image-3.0
Qwen-Image-2.1
Lab
Alibaba Qwen
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Jul 21, 2026
Sep 20, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Open
Price per image
$0.030
—
Time per image
6.2s
—

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
Qwen-Image-2.1
Image generation
48.9±4.3Best
#19/44Verified
48.6±4.3
#20/44Verified

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
Qwen-Image-2.1
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#18/421076BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #17Seedream 5.0 Pro1078
  3. #18Qwen-Image-3.01076
  4. #19Qwen-Image-2.1-ProFew votes1057
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#21/421041VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #20Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1044
  3. #21Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1041
  4. #22Qwen-Image-2.1-TurboFew votes1028
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-15
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#25/351060Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1186
  2. #24Qwen-Image-2.1-TurboFew votes1065
  3. #25Qwen-Image-3.01060
  4. #26Seedream 5.0 Lite1057
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-13
#18/351084BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1186
  2. #17Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1089
  3. #18Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1084
  4. #19Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1083
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-17
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
~#15/33~1235Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #14GPT Image 1.51239
  3. ~#15Qwen-Image-3.0Estimated1235
  4. #15Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1223
estimated from related benchmarks
#15/321223VerifiedFew votes
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #14GPT Image 1.51239
  3. #15Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1223
  4. #16Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)1204
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
~#16/27~1344Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #15Ideogram 4.51347
  3. ~#16Qwen-Image-3.0Estimated1344
  4. #16Luma UNI 1 Max1334
estimated from related benchmarks
#14/261367Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1522
  2. #13GPT Image 1.51370
  3. #14Qwen-Image-2.11367
  4. #15Ideogram 4.51347
arena.ai · 2026-10-13
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~85.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-3.0Estimated85.9%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~85.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-2.1Estimated85.9%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~87.2%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-3.0Estimated87.2%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-2.1Estimated86.9%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks