Alternatives to Qwen-Image

Qwen-Image alternatives

Qwen-Image's smallest published quantization is 6.58 GiB. The models below do the same job with a different trade — less memory, comparable size, or a more permissive licence.

From the file· sizes from summed file bytes

Meaningfully smaller

under 70% of its smallest quantization
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
FLUX.2-klein-9B9.1B3.71 GiB29other
Qwen-Image-Edit-251120.4B4.13 GiB36apache-2.0
FLUX.1-dev11.9B3.75 GiB37other
Krea-2-Turbo12.8B2.78 GiB33other
FLUX.2-klein-4B3.9B1.70 GiB21apache-2.0
Z-Image-Turbo6.2B2.41 GiB30apache-2.0
Chroma8.9B3.99 GiB273apache-2.0
FLUX.1-schnell11.9B3.73 GiB37apache-2.0

Comparable in size

within ±40%, so a like-for-like swap
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen-Image-251220.4B6.83 GiB17apache-2.0
Qwen-Image-Edit-250920.4B6.50 GiB51apache-2.0
Qwen-Image-Edit20.4B6.55 GiB52apache-2.0
HiDream-I1-Full17.1B6.11 GiB31mit
JoyAI-Image-Edit-Plus-Diffusers16.3B7.33 GiB12apache-2.0
HunyuanImage-2.117.5B5.26 GiB50other
SPARK.Chroma_preview8.9B4.71 GiB5apache-2.0

More permissively licensed

licences that allow commercial use
ModelParamsSmallestQuantsLicence
Qwen-Image-Edit-251120.4B4.13 GiB36apache-2.0
FLUX.2-klein-4B3.9B1.70 GiB21apache-2.0
Z-Image-Turbo6.2B2.41 GiB30apache-2.0
Chroma8.9B3.99 GiB273apache-2.0
FLUX.1-schnell11.9B3.73 GiB37apache-2.0
Qwen-Image-251220.4B6.83 GiB17apache-2.0
Qwen-Image-Edit-250920.4B6.50 GiB51apache-2.0
Chroma1-HD8.9B3.18 GiB18apache-2.0