Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图) vs Qwen-Image
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Tencent Hy Image (HunyuanImage 混元生图)
Tencent's 80B open-weight image model, plus an API-only Hy Image 3.5 p...
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Qwen-Image
Alibaba's open-source 20B MMDiT image foundation model under Apache 2....
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.4 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
| API quality | — | |
| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | HunyuanImage 3.0 weights free to self-host under Tencent's community licence (excludes EU, UK and South Korea); consumer use in Tencent's Yuanbao app | Older line Apache 2.0 — the newest Qwen-Image-2.1 is research-only under the Qwen Research Licence |
| Paid from | $0.024/image (Hy Image 3.5 preview API, up to 2K, Tencent Cloud International) | Usage-based via Alibaba Cloud (DashScope) and third-party hosted APIs. |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | — |
| Maker | Tencent | Alibaba |
| Verdict | HunyuanImage 3.0 is one of the most capable image models you can download, with strong Chinese-language prompt handling and editing variants, and the per-image API for Hy Image 3.5 preview is inexpensive.It is not open s... |
What this is for: Open-source text-to-image generation and editing with standout multilingual text rendering, strong for posters and Chinese/English typography. Who this is for: Developers, researchers, and studios want... |
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