The newest Qwen-Image (API) model is Qwen-Image 3.0, released on July 21, 2026. It is the first model in this line, so there is no release rhythm to measure yet.
Where the line stands
How long it has been since the last release against the line's usual gap and its recent ones — the rhythm, not a date.
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Every Qwen-Image (API) release
Newest first — what each version changed versus the one before, in Alibaba's own numbers.
Alibaba's third-generation Qwen-Image model, available only through its API and apps with no open weights, taking prompts up to 4.5k tokens, rendering text as small as 10 pixels and supporting 12 languages.