Tongyi Wanxiang 通义万相 vs Qwen-Image
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Tongyi Wanxiang 通义万相
Alibaba's open-weight image/video generator — now on Wan 2.7
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Qwen-Image
Alibaba's open-source 20B MMDiT image foundation model under Apache 2....
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | Open weights (Apache 2.0) — free to download and self-host from Hugging Face / ModelScope. |
| Paid from | Open Apache 2.0 weights (Wan 2.1/2.2) are free to self-host | Usage-based via Alibaba Cloud (DashScope) and third-party hosted APIs. |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Hundreds of thousands of monthly downloads across HuggingFace/ModelScope variants | — |
| Founded | — | — |
| Maker | — | Alibaba |
| Verdict | Tongyi Wanxiang has grown well past a text-to-image tool: Wan 2.1 topped VBench, the open-weight Wan 2.1/2.2 releases (Apache 2.0) are genuinely popular in the open-source community, and April 2026's Wan 2.7 adds a "Thin... |
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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