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Qwen-Image-2512 is an open-weights image model from Alibaba, released December 2025. Its published size is 20B parameters. Licence: apache-2.0.

55.5±1.3#63 of 144 image modelsfrom 10 benchmark results across 7 sources

Score within the LMArena text-to-image comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The image models ranked either side of Qwen-Image-2512, out of 197 with a score, then more from Alibaba.

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74P-Image-Edit Pruna56±4api $0.010/image2025-12
75FireRed-Image-Edit-1.0 FireRedTeam (Xiaohongshu)56±4comparison only2026-02
76Qwen-Image-2512 Alibaba56±1api $0.020/image +local~22GB2025-12
77Reve V1.1 Fast Reve56±4comparison only
78Z-Image-Turbo Alibaba (Tongyi-MAI)55±1api $0.0050/image +local~7.7GB2025-11
more from Alibaba
11Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Alibaba75±2api $0.040/image2026-07
18Qwen-Image-2.1 Alibaba69±2local~12GB2026-09
20Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) Alibaba67±2api $0.075/image2026-06

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$ what it's good at

text to image▂▅▅▃▄▄█▃▁▂▁▁ #51 of 126 · 76% of its score · 8 tests

Beats Wan 2.7 Image, HunyuanImage 2.1, Recraft V4.1 Flash here, though they rank higher overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GenExam (relaxed overall, GPT-5 judge)35.3% ✎▄█▂▂▃▂▆▄·▂·▂ beats 8/16hard · avg 26%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 36%sharp · at its level
LMArena text-to-image1125.4 ✎▂▂▃▄▇█▄▂▄▂·▂ beats 35/75avg 1027▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 24%typical
UltraText Bench (Composite, bilingual dense text rendering)68.0% ✎▁▂▂█▃▃▂▃·▁·▁ beats 15/22hard · avg 28%▇▇▇ 6.4%sharp · at its level · noisy
ImageTime (prompt-only, overall)53.2% ✎▄·····▄█▄·▄█ beats 2/7medium · avg 41%▇▇ 4.8%at its level
Qwen-Image-Bench (Q-Judger, v1) lab52.1% ✎█▅▅·▅▅█·█··▃ beats 6/17medium · avg 46%▇ 2.6%blunt · at its level
HPSv3 score of Cosmos 3 report text-to-image evaluation images11.0300 ✎▄···█··▄·▄·▄ beats 0/5avg 11.076▇ 1.5%blunt
CVTG-102ch PNED (Chinese character rendering, Cosmos 3 report)71.3% ✎▄·······▄█▄▄ beats 2/5medium · avg 60%▇ 0.4%blunt · at its level · noisy
CVTG-500L PNED (English long-prompt text rendering, Cosmos 3 report)90.9% ✎█······█████ beats 5/5easy · avg 85%▇ 0.0%blunt
other tests2 not in a task · 24% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
VVRBench accuracy (10,000 verifiable synthetic-scene tasks)5.8% ✎▃·█▅▃·▅▃···▃ beats 6/10very hard · avg 7.6%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 20%sharp
UniGenBench + Physical-AI prompts, All 1,170 (Cosmos 3 report)84.3% ✎▄···█··▄···█ beats 2/5easy · avg 78%▇ 3.5%typical

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · Replicate · $0.020/image · replicate.com ↗ · price sourceUSD per output image on Replicate's qwen/qwen-image-2512 model (billing: per output image; hardware time not added). Current version served from replicate-pruna/qwen-image-2512 (Pruna-optimized deployment). Product: Replicate model API. API model: qwen/qwen-image-2512. Settings: one output image. Price basis: published list rate. Currency: USD. Replicate official model page, observed 2026-09-25.

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~22.4 GB · from unsloth.ai
    sd-cli --diffusion-model models/qwen-image-2512-Q4_K_M.gguf --vae models/qwen_image_vae.safetensors --llm models/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf --cfg-scale 2.5 --sampling-method euler -v --steps 40 -H 1024 -W 1024 --diffusion-fa --flow-shift 3 -p 'a cat holding a sign' --offload-to-cpu -o outputs/out.png

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/Qwen ↗

$ how the score was worked out · GenExam: A Multidisciplinary… 36%, LMArena leaderboard dataset 24%, Verifiable Visual Rewards Tra… 20% and 4 more

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

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