{"slug": "qwen-image-edit", "name": "Qwen Image Edit", "category": "ai-models", "category_name": "AI models", "description": "", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 4.267, "rising": -1.64, "first": "2025-11-13", "latest": "2026-07-23", "why": "Qwen-Image-2512/Qwen-Edit-2511. They are both decent", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 7, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Qwen-Image-2512/Qwen-Edit-2511. 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Unfortunately with the recent Qwen-Image 2 and now 3 it doesn't seem likely that they're going to be doing any more open-weight image gen. https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2512 https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-I", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"}, {"id": 778112148, "item_id": 48632009, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632009", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-06-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Qwen-Edit still puts in the work", "excerpt": "Proprietary? Either gpt-image-2 or NB2. I have an example of interior decorating inpainting where I replaced a large floor-to-ceiling window with a mirror, and the result was pretty impressive using NB Pro from nearly a year ago. https://imgpb.com/ZXkiXV Locally hostable? 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It was also the only model that scored a passing grade on the Van Halen M&M test (even compared against Nanobanana) https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["image editing model"], "compared": [{"slug": "nano-banana", "name": "Nano Banana", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "flux-klein", "name": "FLUX Klein", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "nano-banana-pro", "name": "Nano Banana Pro", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993296", "title": "Nano Banana Pro", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630171", "title": "Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917875", "title": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023016", "title": "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 4}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 5, "family_ref": {"slug": "qwen", "name": "Qwen"}, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 784383970, "item_id": 49023998, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023998", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-07-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Qwen-Image-2512/Qwen-Edit-2511. They are both decent", "excerpt": "The two major image generation models are both by Alibaba - Z-Image and Qwen-Image-2512/Qwen-Edit-2511. They are both decent but have different use-cases. Unfortunately with the recent Qwen-Image 2 and now 3 it doesn't seem likely that they're going to be doing any more open-weight image gen. https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-2512 https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-I", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"}, {"id": 778117569, "item_id": 48632348, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632348", "by": "CharlesW", "date": "2026-06-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "NB2 means \"Nano Banana 2\", a Google image generation model. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance"}, {"id": 778112148, "item_id": 48632009, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632009", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2026-06-22", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Qwen-Edit still puts in the work", "excerpt": "Proprietary? Either gpt-image-2 or NB2. I have an example of interior decorating inpainting where I replaced a large floor-to-ceiling window with a mirror, and the result was pretty impressive using NB Pro from nearly a year ago. https://imgpb.com/ZXkiXV Locally hostable? For my money I'd argue Flux.2 Klein but Qwen-Edit still puts in the work.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance"}, {"id": 736032272, "item_id": 46002017, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46002017", "by": "BoorishBears", "date": "2025-11-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The jump in understanding that having a full sized LLM behind the generations enables here is massive", "excerpt": "At the risk of sounding unfairly stubborn about something I'm not that familiar with, if they've been at it for 2 years I'm imagining a very different (much more difficult) pipeline than fine-tuning an image model with an LLM backbone The jump in understanding that having a full sized LLM behind the generations enables here is massive: https://ghost.oxen.ai/fine-tuned-qwen-image-edit-vs-nano-banana-and-flux-kontext-d", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana Pro"}, {"id": 735949523, "item_id": 45996845, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996845", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2025-11-20", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "4. Qwen Image Edit: 6 / 12", "excerpt": "Alright results are in! I've re-run all my editing based adherence related prompts through Nano Banana Pro. NB Pro managed to successfully pass SHRDLU, the M&M Van Halen test (as verified independently by Simon), and the Scorpio street test - all of which the original NB failed. Model results 1. Nano Banana Pro: 10 / 12 2. Seedream4: 9 / 12 3. Nano Banana: 7 / 12 4. Qwen Image Edit: 6 / 12 https://genai-showdown.spec", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana Pro"}, {"id": 735939136, "item_id": 45996196, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996196", "by": "simonw", "date": "2025-11-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Qwen-Image-Edit is pretty good already", "excerpt": "Qwen-Image-Edit is pretty good already: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/19/qwen-image-edit/", "context": "", "use_case": "Image editing model", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana Pro"}, {"id": 734749520, "item_id": 45921845, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921845", "by": "vunderba", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's shockingly good for an open-weight model", "excerpt": "The Qwen-Edit images from my GenAI Image Editing Showdown site were all generated from a ComfyUI workflow on my machine - it's shockingly good for an open-weight model. It was also the only model that scored a passing grade on the Van Halen M&M test (even compared against Nanobanana) https://genai-showdown.specr.net/image-editing", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}, {"id": 734715585, "item_id": 45919724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919724", "by": "echelon", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I wonder if they'll cover the QwenEdit ecosystem.", "excerpt": "The author went to great lengths about open source early on. I wonder if they'll cover the QwenEdit ecosystem. I'm exceptionally excited about Chinese editing models. They're getting closer and closer to NanoBanana in terms of robustness, and they're open source. This means you can supply masks and kernels and do advanced image operations, integrate them into visual UIs, etc. You can even fine tune them and create Lo", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"}]}