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Qwen-Image-2.1

Alibaba QwenOpen weightsqwen.ai ↗
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7B unified generation + editing model, Qwen Research License (non-commercial). No published API price and not on AA yet; release date per https://datanorth.ai/news/qwen-releases-qwen-image-2-1.

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Benchmark scores

~ italic, dashed = no published score yet, estimated from related benchmarks.

Image generation

AA Text-to-Image ArenaEstimated
~#17 of 36 (estimated)~1071 Elo
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1190
  3. #16Qwen-Image-3.01076
  4. ~#17Qwen-Image-2.1Estimated1071
  5. #17Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1044
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Text-to-ImageFew votesVerified
#14 of 301228 Elo
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #2GPT Image 2.5 Flare1401
  3. #13GPT Image 1.51239
  4. #14Qwen-Image-2.1Few votes1228
  5. #15Ideogram 4.0 (Quality)1204
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEvalEstimated
~#3 of 4 (estimated)~86.0%
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-2.1Estimated86.0%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-BenchEstimated
~#3 of 4 (estimated)~87.1%
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Qwen-Image-2.1Estimated87.1%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks