Alibaba Qwen Image 2.1 vs Google Nano Banana 2
Specs, pricing, and capabilities side by side, plus outputs generated from identical prompts, so the only variable between the columns is the model.
Alibaba Qwen's open 7B image model, running fully offline on your own machine. It generates from a prompt and edits images you attach, renders long passages of text inside the image from a far smaller model than the 20B original, and needs no API key or network once the weights are downloaded. Released under the Qwen Research License, which covers research and evaluation use only.
Learn more about Qwen Image 2.1 →Ultra-fast image generation model optimised for speed and creative output.
Learn more about Nano Banana 2 →Every sample is the model’s first result for the shared scene prompt (no cherry-picking), generated via Runware or Replicate. Hover a copy icon to read the full prompt.
LMArena ranks come from the arena.ai leaderboard (dataset, CC BY 4.0), boards of Oct 27, 2026 (image edit) and Oct 26, 2026 (text to image).