Qwen-Image-Edit
Free open photo editor you may use for business.
FreeOpenRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Free local edits with commercial use
- On your PC
- Some setup
- Works on
- Windows, Linux, Mac
- License
- Apache-2.0
What’s good
- Apache-2.0 license, no revenue limits
- Keeps people and products consistent across edits
- Also runs on Macs in Draw Things
Downsides
- Big model, needs a 16 GB graphics card
- Behind newer FLUX 3 Klein and Qwen-Image 2.1
At a glance.
- Best for
- Free local edits with commercial use
- Price
- Free, open source
- Version
- Qwen-Image-Edit 2511Released 2025-12
- Works on
- Windows, Linux, Mac
- Open source
- Yes, Apache-2.0
- Made by
- Alibaba (Qwen team)
- Website
- huggingface.co
How it ranks.
- LMArena Image Edit#43 · 12332026-11-05
- Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena (Edit Plus 2511)#52 · 9942026-11-05
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Some setup: download a model inside an app.
Use ComfyUI, Draw Things.
- You need
- NVIDIA card with 16 GB using compressed (GGUF) files
- Setup
- Some setupDownload a model inside an app
- Laptop, 8 GBToo small
- PC, 16 GB+Too small
- Mac, 16 GBToo small
- Mac, 32 GBRuns
- Mac, 64 GB+Runs
- PC, 8 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 12 GB GPUToo small
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns