Qwen Image

• - 🏢 Alibaba's open-weight image generation foundation model, Apache 2.0 licensed.
• - 🎯 Specializes in accurate text rendering inside generated images.
• - 🌐 Handles complex Chinese and English typography and layouts.
• - 🔧 Generate from text and refine the result with instructions.
• - 🆕 First entry in Alibaba's Qwen Image family.
• - 📚 Widely downloaded open weights for local deployment.
• - 💬 Available through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's API.

Alibaba

Alibaba Group is a Chinese multinational technology company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Originally built around e-commerce and cloud computing, Alibaba has become one of the most prolific contributors to open-weight AI research,…

Qwen Image is Alibaba's open-weight foundation model for image generation, released in 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. Its defining strength is high-fidelity text rendering inside images — multi-line layouts, paragraph-level text, and professional typography such as posters and slides — across both Chinese and English. The system supports generating an image from a text prompt and then refining it with editing instructions.

Alibaba exposes the model through its Model Studio platform, with documented text-to-image endpoints and code examples for Python and Java, making it straightforward to call from server applications.

As the family's original entry, Qwen Image is the predecessor to Qwen Image 2 and the higher-fidelity Qwen Image 2 Pro, which continue the family's unified generation-and-editing approach.

For teams needing reliable in-image text together with open weights for local deployment, Qwen Image remains the family's accessible starting point, with the later 2.0 releases building on it.