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Qwen Image 2.1
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by Alibaba
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALCREATIVECHINA-MADE
RANKED #91 OF 104 IMAGES · OVERALL #458 OF 7,034 · VIBE SCORE 5.0 · 53 VOICES
Qwen-Image-2.1-PE-I2I-GGUF on Hugging Face (image text to text). 3,201 downloads. Open weights for local or hosted use.
HAPPY6.3
1 mentions
SAD8.8
2 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 101 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Qwen Image 2.1 once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
7B parameter DiT with an 8B text encoder, INT8 quantization uses about 16 GB combined
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM PLUS 32 GB RAM
~$260 USEDW4A8 or INT8 with CPU offloading, ~35 s/image at 1024x1024
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$750 NEWINT8 quantized weights fitting fully into VRAM, ~12 s/image at 1024x1024
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1,800 NEWBF16 full precision weights with 2K resolution, ~6 s/image
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN QWEN IMAGE 2.1?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Qwen Image 2.1 takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make an imageone picture at normal settings | ~35 S★★★★★ | ~12 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Qwen Image 2.1 yet to call it. We found 53 posts but people did not say much either way.
52 POSTS · 1 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with images models like this one.
V1.1
Midjourney> SOURCES (12)
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 1 UPVOTESfeat: add collapsible PiP and Qwen-Image 2.1
feat: add collapsible PiP and Qwen-Image 2.1
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTESQwen Image 2.1 — reprendre la direction artistique des illustrations, et calibrer le service hébergé par po-2023 (volet Argumentum du…
Qwen Image 2.1 — reprendre la direction artistique des illustrations, et calibrer le service hébergé par po-2023 (volet Argumentum du double ticket)
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(genai,#17234): heberger Qwen-Image 2.1 -- palier INT8 choisi par VRAM mesuree + garde de capacite
feat(genai,#17234): heberger Qwen-Image 2.1 -- palier INT8 choisi par VRAM mesuree + garde de capacite
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTESAdd Qwen Image 2.1 base model and license
Add Qwen Image 2.1 base model and license
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTES[GenAI] Qwen Image 2.1 -- integrer le modele au curriculum GenAI et heberger le service (volet CoursIA du double ticket)
[GenAI] Qwen Image 2.1 -- integrer le modele au curriculum GenAI et heberger le service (volet CoursIA du double ticket)
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(image): support Qwen-Image 2.1 in Server and Rapid Mac
Why Qwen-Image 2.1 cannot run through Rapid-MLX today because the image extra excludes mflux 0.20 and the image router selects the incompatible 1.x class. A distinct family is needed for its Qwen3-VL encoder, 40-step default, and img2img capability. Refs…
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTESfix(image): reject Qwen-Image 2.x before 1.x dispatch
Summary - Reject Qwen-Image 2.x names before the generic Qwen-Image 1.x dispatch can select the wrong mflux class. - Keep Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 and other 1.x routing intact. - Record the separate full-support work, including mflux 0.20 compatibility, admission…
- GITHUB · 2026-09-22 · 0 UPVOTESfix(image): accept shared HF blob cache for Qwen 2.1
Why Real-weight dogfood for Qwen-Image 2.1 after #3652 exposed a cache-layout failure on a 32 GB Mac mini. Its HF cache deduplicates blobs through two links: the snapshot file points to this repository's blobs/<etag>, which points to…
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(appdaemon): 1.20.6 -> 1.21.0 (three-frame Qwen-Image-2.1 default)
Deploys thaynes43/hass-sandbox#186. Image ghcr.io/thaynes43/appdaemon:1.21.0 verified present (registry 200). The three-frame graph is already tracked and model-checked on the ComfyUI side (#3066). Tracking: #3051. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTEScomfyui: three-frame Qwen-Image-2.1 is the default workflow (1.21.0)
Why The seven DetectionSummary camera apps pick 2-4 candidate frames per run and their image prompt tells the model "you are provided N images". The default ComfyUI workflow had one image slot, so every frame after the first was never uploaded and the prompt…
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(appdaemon): 1.19.2 -> 1.20.0 (ComfyUI workflow registry, Qwen-Image-2.1 default)
feat(appdaemon): 1.19.2 -> 1.20.0 (ComfyUI workflow registry, Qwen-Image-2.1 default)
- GITHUB · 2026-09-21 · 0 UPVOTESSubmit: Alibaba Releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight Model With Native Transparency Support
Submit: Alibaba Releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight Model With Native Transparency Support