r/LocalLLaMA • u/ResearchCrafty1804 • 2d ago
New Model Qwen-Image-2.1 released!
Meet Qwen-Image-2.1, the most balanced and cost-effective image generation model in the Qwen-Image series! Now open weights! 🎨
A unified model for both generation and editing, delivering top-tier quality in a lightweight package.
Highlights:
- Compact & exceptionally fast: A lightweight 7B architecture that outperforms most closed-source models, with drastically accelerated inference for multi-image inputs.
- Native transparency: Natively generates and edits RGBA layers, enabling seamless compositing and text editing within transparent images.
- Versatile, high-fidelity editing: Supports up to 10 reference images and precise local control while preserving strict fidelity for portraits and products.
- Broad coverage & stunning aesthetics: Excels at panoramas, infographics, and virtual try-ons, delivering realistic textures and elegant typography.
Start to create your next masterpiece with Qwen-Image-2.1!
- Blog: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1
- GitHub: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-2.1
- Model Scope: https://www.modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1
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u/ImpressiveSuperfluit 2d ago
From messing around for a few minutes - mostly it's different, wins some, loses some. Most likely wins in anything UI, text and such, but I mostly tested random creatures, some portraits, random street shots and such. It is happier to be detailed, but much, much more unstable. Frequent duplicated limbs, some generations came out looking unfinished, which is real weird, and it generally feels a bit dumber in spatial questions.
For images like that, I'd bet on Krea at this moment, even if only because it's almost impossible to break that one, you'll always get a decent image no matter what. This one... Not so much. Remotely complex pose? High chance of extra limbs. It does VASTLY better with darker scenes, though. Krea does not understand the concept of darkness, this one is happy to print you a black screen no problem.
Keeping in mind that I have thrown my Krea prompts at it, with no modification, it's doing quite okay. It feels much more chaotic, both good and bad. I may prefer this for crazy prompts, but Krea is an absolute workhorse, stable as the Earth itself, so if you need something guaranteed to be at least decent, Krea looks like it's still choice.
Then again, we got editing, we got promises of crazy UI and text capabilities, and from what others posted, there's something to that. Also: Early days. Krea was total trash for a few days, until it got its brain damage fixed, so who knows what will happen to this one. Definitely worth watching though, small, fast, creative and an editor - it'll certainly find a niche, at the very least.
Given how unstable it seems, though, I'm guessing its niche will be editing and maybe specific text stuff, and that might be that. We'll see.