Qwen Image 2.1 early access: best open-source image model yet, says Sandlers
Crazy-Repeat-2006 · reddit · 2026-09-19
Sandlers, who got early access to Qwen Image 2.1, shares comparisons against other popular open-source image models. Verdict: it beats everything open-source so far, surpassing ZIT in realism while keeping coherence at very high resolutions. Main downsides are slow generations on Model Scope and throttled download speeds; he offers to run more tests on request.
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