# Qwen-Image-Edit

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Qwen-Image-Edit and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Open-weight image editing model many rate among the best, runnable locally. Main caveat: running it locally is cumbersome.

## Why people recommend it

- Strong image editing quality (7 comments): "Qwen Edit and Klein are probably still the best at editing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999071)) "Qwen Image and Image Edit were among the best image models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46111975)) "Qwen won the latest models round last month" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997522))
- Open weights with masks and kernels (2 comments): "they're open source. This means you can supply masks and kernels" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919724)) "it's shockingly good for an open-weight model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921845))

## What people warn about

- Heavy to run locally (1 comments): "actually running those types of models is too cumbersome" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919895))
- Rival models rated better (1 comments): "Anecdotally, I'd say way better than Flux.2 Klein 9B and Qwen-Edit." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634277))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Nano Banana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nano-banana-pro.md): 265 recommend
- [gpt-image-1](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-image-1-5.md): 79 recommend
- [FLUX.2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/flux-2.md): 66 recommend
- [gpt-image-2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gpt-image-2.md): 63 recommend
- [Qwen-Image](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-image-2-1.md): 47 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Qwen-Image-Edit", https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-image-edit/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).