Qwen-Image-Edit
Hacker ApprovedShares rank 14 of 22 image generation models by recommenders
Open-weight image editing model many rate among the best, runnable locally. Main caveat: running it locally is cumbersome.
Open-weight image editing model many rate among the best, runnable locally. Main caveat: running it locally is cumbersome.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 93%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 13 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong image editing quality
“Qwen Edit and Klein are probably still the best at editing”
Comment from 21 Jul 2026 in “Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge” “Qwen Image and Image Edit were among the best image models”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]” “Qwen won the latest models round last month”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Nano Banana Pro” - Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models”
- Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Nano Banana Pro”
- Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance”
- Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance”
Open weights with masks and kernels
“they're open source. This means you can supply masks and kernels”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation” “it's shockingly good for an open-weight model”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Heavy to run locally
“actually running those types of models is too cumbersome”
Comment from 13 Nov 2025 in “Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation” Rival models rated better
“Anecdotally, I'd say way better than Flux.2 Klein 9B and Qwen-Edit.”
Comment from 22 Jun 2026 in “Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance”
Other image generation models people recommend
The four most recommended other image generation models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nano Banana | 265 | 159 | 63% | 12 | 6 mo5 owners | — |
| gpt-image-1 | 79 | 79 | 50% | 12 | — | — |
| FLUX.2 | 66 | 51 | 56% | 10 | — | — |
| gpt-image-2 | 63 | 26 | 71% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Qwen-Image-EditThis page | 13 | 1 | 93% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
16 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I can restore images I've spent hours on to restore in seconds!”
“They are both decent but have different use-cases.”
“Qwen Edit and Klein are probably still the best at editing”
“Anecdotally, I'd say way better than Flux.2 Klein 9B and Qwen-Edit.”
“Qwen-Edit still puts in the work”
“Qwen-Edit still puts in the work.”
“All great for creation pipelines.”
“Qwen Image and Image Edit were among the best image models”
“The Qwen folks are also a lot more transparent, spend time community building, and iterate on releases much more rapidly.”
“Qwen technically not failing if one is generous”
“Qwen won the latest models round last month”
“Qwen-Image-Edit is pretty good already”
“Qwen Image-Edit is a really good model”
“it's shockingly good for an open-weight model”
“actually running those types of models is too cumbersome”
“they're open source. This means you can supply masks and kernels”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.