# Qwen-Image-Edit: image editing model with text rendering

> Qwen released Qwen-Image-Edit, a 20B image editing model built on Qwen-Image. It extends Qwen-Image's text rendering capability to editing tasks, and uses both Qwen2.5-VL (for visual semantic control) and the VAE Encoder (for visual appearance control) to support semantic and appearance editing.

| | |
|---|---|
| **Tool** | Qwen |
| **Version** | — |
| **Kind** | announcement |
| **Published** | 2025-08-18 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 3/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | feature, new-model |

## What changed


- Built on the 20B Qwen-Image model
- Extends text rendering capabilities to image editing for precise text editing
- Dual-path architecture: Qwen2.5-VL for visual semantic control, VAE Encoder for visual appearance control
- Supports both semantic and appearance editing modes


## Sources

- [blog_rss](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image-edit/) — retrieved 2026-08-11


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