Qwen Image Edit — AI Image Generator
AI image generation model on Artifio AI. UI groups: Image to Image.
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Qwen Image Edit pricing
These prices are calculated from the current model settings. Each row describes the configuration used for that price.
| Settings | Per generation |
|---|---|
| Output size: square | $0.010 |
| Output size: square_hd | $0.035 |
| Output size: landscape_4_3 | $0.025 |
| Output size: portrait_4_3 | $0.025 |
| Output size: landscape_16_9 | $0.020 |
| Output size: portrait_16_9 | $0.020 |
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About Qwen Image Edit
Qwen Image Edit is Alibaba's dedicated instruction-editing model line, first open-sourced on August 18, 2025 as an extension of the 20B Qwen-Image foundation. It splits editing into two documented modes: semantic edits that may repaint most pixels while keeping the subject's identity (style transfer, rotating an object up to 180 degrees), and appearance edits that change one element while everything else in the frame stays untouched. Because it inherits Qwen-Image's text-rendering stack, it can rewrite words inside a picture in Chinese or English without breaking the original font, size, or style.
The line has moved fast since launch: Edit-2509 (September 2025) added multi-image input and better consistency, and Edit-2511 (December 2025) targeted image drift, character and multi-person identity, geometric reasoning, and shipped popular community LoRA effects built into the base weights. On Artifio the model runs pay-per-generation alongside the rest of the catalogue in one workspace.
Features
- Two editing modes: semantic (style transfer, novel view synthesis, IP re-creation) and appearance (precise add/remove/replace with untouched regions preserved)
- Bilingual text editing that adds, deletes, or modifies words while keeping the source typography
- Dual conditioning: the input image feeds Qwen2.5-VL for semantic control and a VAE encoder for appearance control at the same time
- Multi-image editing since Edit-2509, for combining people, objects, and scenes from several sources
- Edit-2511 upgrades: image-drift mitigation, stronger character and group-photo consistency, geometric reasoning for industrial design, and integrated community LoRA effects with no extra tuning
- Apache 2.0 weights, runnable through the Diffusers QwenImageEditPlusPipeline
What people use it for
- Portrait edits that must keep the person recognizable across wardrobe, scene, and pose changes
- Composing group shots or product scenes from multiple source images
- Fixing typos and swapping copy on posters, packaging, and UI screenshots
- Industrial and product design iterations that need geometry to stay plausible
- Applying community-trained style effects without managing separate LoRA files
Reported strengths
- State-of-the-art results on public image-editing benchmarks at launch, per the release announcement
- Identity preservation improved measurably across versions, with 2511 focused specifically on character and multi-person consistency
- Typography-preserving text editing is rare among open editing models
- Open license and an actively maintained release cadence (2509, 2511 within four months of launch)
Reported limitations
- The improvements 2511 advertises (image-drift mitigation, character consistency) double as an admission that earlier checkpoints drifted on identity during repeated edits
- The 20B base makes local use demanding; the model card's reference setup assumes bfloat16 precision on a CUDA GPU
- Results are sensitive to sampling settings, and the card's examples lean on tuned guidance scale and step counts rather than one default that always works
Sources
- Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency (Qwen (Alibaba))
- Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 model card (Hugging Face (Qwen))
- QwenLM/Qwen-Image repository (GitHub (QwenLM))
Qwen Image Edit FAQ
What is Qwen Image Edit?
Qwen Image Edit is an AI model (image editing) available on Artifio.ai through Qwen. You can run it in our workspace from a single shared wallet and download your outputs.
How much does Qwen Image Edit cost on Artifio?
Qwen Image Edit has a starting estimate of $0.010 per generation on Artifio.ai. Review the estimate for your settings in the workspace before confirming. Usage-billed models reconcile the final charge after generation.
How do I use Qwen Image Edit on Artifio?
Click Generate Now to open the workspace at /create/qwen-image-edit. Fill in the form fields, review the live cost estimate, and run your generation.
What kind of outputs does Qwen Image Edit produce?
Qwen Image Edit is configured for image editing workflows in the image category. See the technical parameters below for supported inputs and options.
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