Qwen-Image 2.1 one-month review: better text-to-image, editing still trails GPT-4o
Dear_Engineer_1564 · reddit · 2026-10-19
After a month with Qwen-Image 2.1, the author finds its text-to-image output clearly improved over Qwen-Image 2.0 and Z-Image, with better prompt adherence — and shares a custom 'street photography' system prompt with sample images. However, image editing still lags far behind closed models like GPT-4o, leaving open-source solutions a long road ahead.
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