Can Qwen-Image-2.1 be used commercially?

Not under its public licence. The Qwen Research License grants rights for non-commercial purposes only, and commercial use needs a separate licence from the licensor.

Where can Qwen-Image-2.1 be downloaded?

The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and the code is on GitHub. Diffusers, ComfyUI, vLLM-Omni and SGLang added support on release day, according to the Qwen GitHub page.

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Image generation and editing model

Qwen-Image-2.1

Qwen-Image-2.1 is a text-to-image generation and image editing model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released with open weights on 20 September 2026. Its visual generation component has 7 billion parameters. It generates transparent images and accepts up to 10 reference images, and it ships under the non-commercial Qwen Research License.

Last reviewed 28 Oct 2026 · by Alibaba

Facts at a glance

Developer	Alibaba (Qwen team)
Released	20 September 2026 source
Visual generation component	7B parameters, 32 single-stream DiT layers source
Reference images	Up to 10 per edit source
Output	Regular and transparent (RGBA) images source
License	Qwen Research License Agreement (non-commercial use only)
Faster variant	Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, 8 denoising steps, released 9 October 2026 source

Questions people ask

Can Qwen-Image-2.1 be used commercially?: Not under its public licence. The Qwen Research License grants rights for non-commercial purposes only, and commercial use needs a separate licence from the licensor.
Where can Qwen-Image-2.1 be downloaded?: The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and the code is on GitHub. Diffusers, ComfyUI, vLLM-Omni and SGLang added support on release day, according to the Qwen GitHub page.