Model reference · open weights
LongCat-Image-Ed is an open-weight image model from meituan-longcat, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
[//]: # ( <a href='https://meituan-longcat.github.io/LongCat-Image/'<img src='https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-Page-green'</a) Introduction We introduce LongCat-Image-Edit-Turbo, the distilled version of LongCat-Image-Edit. It achieves high-quality image editing with only 8 NFEs (Number of Function Evaluations) , offering extremely low inference latency. Installation Run Image Editing [!CAUTION] 📝 Special Handling for Text Rendering For both Text-to-Image and Image Editing tasks involving text generation, you must enclose the target text within single or double quotation marks (both English '...' / "..." and Chinese ‘...’ / “...” styles are supported). Reasoning: The model utilizes a specialized character-level encoding strategy specifically for quoted content. Failure to use explicit quotation marks prevents this mechanism from triggering, which will severely compromise the text rendering capability.
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | meituan-longcat |
|---|---|
| Type | Image models |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2026-02-03 |
| Popularity | 23k downloads / month |
| Likes | 184 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LongCat-Image-Edit-Turbo | — | BF16 | — | — | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys longcat-image-ed for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (longcat-image-ed below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"longcat-image-ed","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'
Licence
Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗