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Qwen Image
by Alibaba
CLOSEDLOCALGENERATING PICTURESMAKING ARTPHOTO EDITING
RANKED #6 OF 75 IMAGES · OVERALL #29 OF 6,566 · VIBE SCORE 6.9 · 1,740 VOICES
An open image generator from Alibaba that turns text prompts into detailed pictures on your own PC.
HAPPY9.3
179 mentions
SAD5.7
89 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,431 voices
HONEYMOON FADING
Early praise is cooling off in recent weeks.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Alibaba hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Qwen Image is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.3
FluxBlack Forest LabsPick for industry-leading text rendering and photorealism on par with closed models.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE❤️ CROWD FAVORITE12.1k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.1
Stable Diffusion 3.5Stability AIPick for a lighter, faster local alternative with strong prompt adherence.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY414 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users praise Qwen Image for its crisp detail and strong prompt adherence that follows directions well. However, running it can lead to frustrating memory errors and crashes on some setups.
1057 POSTS · 683 COMMENTS · BLUESKY · REDDIT · LEMMY · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · X · HACKER NEWS · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Results look great (9 mentions)
- Does what you ask without fighting you (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- How results lookPEOPLE LOVE THIS
9 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- Working when you need itMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
- Doing what you askPEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Qwen Image VAE Sharp for Krea 2 Turbo/Raw - cleaner edges and stronger micro-detail.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“After moving my ComfyUI setup to a faster SSD, Qwen image models now crash with CUDA “out of memory” — why?.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“Qwen image prompt adherence is amazing.”
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- REDDIT · 2025-09-03 · 1800 UPVOTES1GIRL QWEN-IMAGE model released
1GIRL QWEN-IMAGE model released
- REDDIT · 2025-10-04 · 1293 UPVOTESSamsungCam UltraReal - Qwen-Image LoRA
SamsungCam UltraReal - Qwen-Image LoRA
- REDDIT · 2025-08-31 · 1287 UPVOTESRandom gens from Qwen + my LoRA
Random gens from Qwen + my LoRA
- REDDIT · 2025-08-11 · 993 UPVOTESUltraReal + Nice Girls LoRAs for Qwen-Image
UltraReal + Nice Girls LoRAs for Qwen-Image
- REDDIT · 2025-10-23 · 917 UPVOTES2000s Analog Core - A Hi8 Camcorder LoRA for Qwen-Image
2000s Analog Core - A Hi8 Camcorder LoRA for Qwen-Image
- REDDIT · 2025-10-31 · 891 UPVOTESQwen Image LoRA - A Realism Experiment - Tried my best lol
Qwen Image LoRA - A Realism Experiment - Tried my best lol
- REDDIT · 2025-10-15 · 734 UPVOTESFREE Face Dataset generation workflow for lora training (Qwen edit 2509)
FREE Face Dataset generation workflow for lora training (Qwen edit 2509)
- REDDIT · 2025-12-13 · 697 UPVOTESAnnouncing The Release of Qwen 360 Diffusion, The World's Best 360° Text-to-Image Model
Announcing The Release of Qwen 360 Diffusion, The World's Best 360° Text-to-Image Model
- REDDIT · 2025-12-18 · 678 UPVOTESQWEN Image Layers - Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition
QWEN Image Layers - Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition
- REDDIT · 2025-08-05 · 594 UPVOTESQwen image prompt adherence is GT4-o level.
Qwen image prompt adherence is GT4-o level.
- REDDIT · 2025-08-04 · 526 UPVOTESQwen-Image has been released
Qwen-Image has been released
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-07-04 · 3 UPVOTESGPT-Image Monthly Theme Gallery: August 2026 Theme is ... Returning
GPT-Image Monthly Theme Gallery: August 2026 Theme is ... Returning