Qwen’s Image 2.1 released but it come with lots of improvements but just as many caveats. The old Qwen-Image-2512 was a 20B model with a massive: 💾 40.9GB BF16 image transformer But the new Qwen-Image-2.1 comes with … 🧠 7B visual generator 💾 14.2GB BF16 🔥 7.26GB INT8 already available for ComfyUI 👈👀 (Day-1) This little thing can … 🎨 generate AND edit images 🖼️ generate native 2K 🫥 create real transparent RGBA images 👥 use up to 10 reference images ✏️ preserve people/products while editing 🔤 render text 🎯 do masked/local edits Qwen basically took the huge local image model and reduced with a catch … ⚠️ The tiny 7.26GB image model comes with an entire pipeline. It uses a Qwen3-VL 8B encoder + VAE. ComfyUI already has a 6.31GB W4A8 encoder, and Qwen supports CPU offloading for smaller GPUs. Also… 🚫 Qwen-Image-2.1 is NON-COMMERCIAL under the new Qwen Research License. That’s especially notable because Qwen-Image-2512 was Apache 2.0.