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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.

Local

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.

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Cloud

Ultra-fast image generation model optimised for speed and creative output.

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Overview
Creator
Alibaba
Google
Released
this month (Sep 2026)
7 months ago (Feb 2026)
Available on
GGML
RunwareReplicateOpenRouterGoogle
Model ID
sdcpp:qwen-image-2.1
nano-banana-2
Specs
Pricing
Free, runs on your hardware
$0.067 per image
Max resolution
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4K
Aspect ratios
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1:1, 16:9, 9:16 +11 more
Image-to-image
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Up to 14 reference images
Output formats
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PNG, JPEG, WebP
Runs locally
Supported OS
macOS, Windows, Linux
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Minimum machine
Local image generation · 32 GB+ RAM · 18 GB free disk · GPU strongly recommended
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Download size
14 GB
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Samples
Product still life
Materials, reflections, macro detail
No sample yet
Studio portrait
Skin texture, lighting, shallow depth of field
No sample yet
Typographic poster
Text rendering, layout, flat colour
No sample yet

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.

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