Qwen-Image-2.1
Qwen-Image-2.1 is an image generation model from Qwen released on Sep 14, 2026. It reads text and writes images, with a 8K token context window.
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It costs $0 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens.
Its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0 / $0 per 1M
- Context
- 8K
- Max output
- n/a
- Released
- Sep 14, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen-Image-2.1 pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0 / 1M tokens |
What Qwen-Image-2.1 costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen-Image-2.1 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Temperature
temperature
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Qwen-Image-2.1 questions
How much does the Qwen-Image-2.1 API cost?
$0 per million input tokens and $0 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen-Image-2.1?
8,192 tokens of input. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Is Qwen-Image-2.1 open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Qwen-Image-2.1 released?
Sep 14, 2026.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen-Image-2.1?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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