Qwen Image: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen Image is a image model by Alibaba. 11 providers serve it, from $0.02 to $0.042 /img; the lowest price is at Kie.ai.
How Qwen Image compares
Against the 117 image models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.02 /img, its lowest price undercuts 82% of comparable models (median $0.031).
- Its 4K-token context window is larger than 0% of them (median 4K), about 10 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text-to-Image board it ranks #6 of the 14 comparable models scored there.
- 11 providers serve it; 94% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Qwen Image prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Task | Output |
|---|---|---|
| WaveSpeedAI | image-to-image | From$0.012/run |
| WaveSpeedAI | text-to-image | From$0.02/run |
 Fal | text-to-image | $0.02/MP |
| Fal | image-to-image | $0.02/MP |
 Kie.ai | text-to-image | $0.02/img |
 FastRouter | — | $0.02/img |
| Atlas Cloud | text-to-image | $0.024/img |
| Replicate | — | $0.025/img |
 CometAPI | — | $0.028/run |
| MMuAPI | text-to-image | $0.03/run |
 Venice AI | — | $0.03/img |
 AIHubMix | — | $0.036/img |
| MMuAPI | image-to-image | $0.04/run |
 SiliconFlow | — | $0.042/img |
- Kie.ai$0.02
- FastRouter$0.02
- Atlas Cloud$0.024
- Replicate$0.025
- Venice AI$0.03
- AIHubMix$0.036
- SiliconFlow$0.042
Specs
- Type
- Image
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Image
- Capabilities
- —
- Released
- Aug 2, 2025
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 20B
- Arena score
- 1125Text-to-Image
Alternatives to Qwen Image
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen Imagethis model | $0.02/img | 1125 | 11 |
 Seedream 5.0 Pro | $0.022/img | 1391 | 13 |
| FLUX 3 Image | $0.02/img | — | 5 |
| FLUX 3 Image Klein | $0.007/img | — | 4 |
| Seedream 4.5 | $0.026/img | 1303 | 13 |
| FLUX.2 [pro] | $0.024/img | 1153 | 12 |
 Nano Banana 2 Lite | $0.034/img | — | 1 |
| Seedream 5.0 Lite | $0.028/img | — | 15 |
| Imagen-3 | $0.05/img | — | 1 |
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The lowest price for Qwen Image is $0.02 /img, at Kie.ai.
Kie.ai, at $0.02 /img. 11 providers serve Qwen Image; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen Image reads up to 4K tokens per request.
Yes. Qwen Image's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 20B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
11 API providers serve Qwen Image. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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