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Qwen-Image-Lightning

Qwen-Image-Lightning is an open-weight image model from lightx2v, 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.

Image lightx2v 1 variants 443k downloads/mo
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About

What Qwen-Image-Lightning is

Please refer to Qwen-Image-Lightning github to learn how to use the models. use with diffusers 🧨: make sure to install diffusers from main (pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers.git)

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makerlightx2v
TypeImage models
Variants1
Runs withdiffusers
Based onQwen/Qwen-Image
Released2025-08-09
Popularity443k downloads / month
Likes822
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How image models work

Text promptwhat to makeText encoderunderstands itDiffusion stepsdenoise to pixelsImagePNG / JPEGA diffusion model starts from noise and denoises it, guided by your prompt, into a finished image.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

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.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Qwen-Image-LightningBF16Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys qwen-image-lightning for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (qwen-image-lightning 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":"qwen-image-lightning","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en zh

Tags

diffusers Qwen-Image distillation LoRA lora text-to-image en zh

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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