Models/Alibaba/Qwen Image

Alibaba: Qwen Image

Name: Qwen Image
Brand: Alibaba
Price: 0.0175 USD
Availability: InStock

Imageqwen-image

Alibaba's Qwen-Image: generation and editing with strong in-image text.

API docs

Playgroundqwen-image

Reference image＋Upload

Size

Negative prompt

Steps

Guidance

Format

Acceleration

Seed

Latency6.3 s

24hnow

Specifications

Authoralibaba

ModalityImage

Price$0.018 / image$0.035 / image

Savings−50%

Quick start

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.altrouter.ai/v1",
    api_key="ar-...",
)

img = client.images.generate(
    model="qwen-image",
    prompt="a red fox in the snow",
)
print(img.data[0].url)

Same OpenAI-compatible endpoint — just swap base_url and key.

API

OpenAI-compatible image generation endpoint. The result is re-hosted on our CDN and returned as a URL.

POST/v1/images/generations

Body parameters

modelstringrequired"qwen-image"

The model id.

promptstringrequired

The text description of the image.

imagestringURL or base64

Reference images for editing.

image_sizeenumsquare_hd · square · portrait_4_3 · portrait_16_9 · landscape_4_3 · landscape_16_9default square_hd

Image size / orientation preset.

negative_promptstring

What to exclude from the image.

num_inference_stepsnumber2–49

Diffusion steps — higher is better but slower.

guidance_scalenumber0–20

How strictly to follow the prompt.

output_formatenumpng · jpegdefault png

Output file format (PNG / JPEG).

accelerationenumnone · regular · highdefault none

Generation acceleration mode.

seednumber0–2147483647

Seed for reproducibility.

Response

createdinteger

Unix creation time (seconds).

dataarray

Images. Each: url (our CDN), b64_json, revised_prompt.

Example

cURLPythonJSON

curl https://api.altrouter.ai/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ar-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "qwen-image",
  "prompt": "a red fox in the snow",
  "image_size": "square_hd",
  "output_format": "png"
}'

Errors

400Invalid request.

401Missing or invalid API key.

402Insufficient credits, or the key’s spending cap is exhausted.

404Model not found.

429Rate limit exceeded.