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Latest Image Editing models

Open models that edit existing images from a prompt — inpainting, object removal, style transfer, and instruction-based edits, all with weights you control.

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27 releases

Microsoft/Text → Image

Microsoft's Mage-Flow packs image editing into 4B

A compact model handles both text-to-image generation and instruction-based edits at native resolution, under a permissive MIT license.

Jul 21, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
Mage-Flow
Unknown/Any-to-Any

Boogu-Image-0.1 Brings Unified Multimodal to Open Source

A new Apache-licensed model family folds bilingual text-to-image generation and instruction editing into one system.

Jul 13, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
SenseTime/Any-to-Any

SenseTime's SenseNova-Vision-7B-MoT Goes Any-to-Any

A single 7B model from SenseTime folds vision-language understanding, image generation, editing, and perception into one system.

Jun 29, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
SenseNova-Vision-7B-MoT
Tencent/Image Editing

Tencent's Moebius packs inpainting into 0.2B params

A lightweight image-editing framework claims results rivaling 10B-scale models, and it's already running in the browser.

Jun 22, 2026
Image Editing
Boogu/Image Editing

Boogu-Image 0.1 Edit arrives with Apache license

A new open-weight diffusion model for image editing ships with ComfyUI support and a permissive license that allows commercial use.

Jun 16, 2026
Image Editing
Boogu-Image 0.1 Edit
ByteDance/Any-to-AnyMajor release

ByteDance Releases Lance, a Unified Generative AI Model

The 3-billion-parameter model handles image and video generation, editing, and understanding from a single set of weights under a permissive license.

May 15, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
Lance
SenseTime/Any-to-Any

SenseTime Releases 8B 'Any-to-Any' Infographic Model

The new 8B-parameter SenseNova U1 model from SenseTime is designed for complex multimodal tasks, including the in-conversation generation and editing of infographics.

May 14, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
SenseNova U1 8B MoT Infographic
NVIDIA/Image Editing

NVIDIA Releases PiD for High-Quality Image Upscaling

The new component is a specialized VAE decoder that works with Stability AI's Z-Image model to enhance super-resolution tasks.

Apr 28, 2026
Image Editing
NVIDIA PiD (Pixel Diffusion Decoder)
inclusionAI/Any-to-Any

LLaDA2.0-Uni: A Unified MoE for Vision Tasks

The new open-source model from inclusionAI uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to handle multiple vision tasks in a single, diffusion-based system.

Apr 22, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
LLaDA2.0-Uni
SenseTime/Any-to-Any

SenseTime Releases 8B Any-to-Any Multimodal Model

The new SenseNova-U1 model unifies image understanding, generation, and editing within a single 8-billion-parameter framework.

Apr 22, 2026
Image EditingAny-to-Any
SenseNova-U1-8B-MoT
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

Black Forest Labs Releases Open FLUX.2 Image Decoder

This new component is part of a novel transformer-based architecture for text-to-image generation, released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Apr 6, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 small decoder
JD/Image Editing

JD.com Releases Open-Source Bilingual Image Editor

The new JoyAI-Image-Edit model allows for instruction-based photo manipulation in both English and Chinese under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.

Mar 31, 2026
Image Editing
JoyAI-Image-Edit
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 klein Image Model

The new open-weight model offers a more compact, distilled version of the advanced FLUX architecture for text-to-image and editing tasks.

Mar 9, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Xiaomi/Image Editing

Xiaomi Releases Bilingual Image Editing Model FireRed 1.1

The new open-source model from Xiaomi's FireRedTeam leverages the Qwen-Image-Edit pipeline to offer instruction-based image editing in both English and Chinese.

Mar 2, 2026
Image Editing
FireRed Image Edit 1.1
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 Image Model

The new text-to-image model emphasizes speed and efficiency with a novel architecture and FP8 quantization.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases Open-Source FLUX.2 Klein 4B

The new 4-billion-parameter model is a distilled version of the powerful FLUX.2 architecture, released under a commercially-friendly Apache 2.0 license.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → Image

FLUX.2 Klein: A Compact 4B Open-Source Image Model

The new 4-billion-parameter model from Black Forest Labs offers an efficient, transformer-based alternative to latent diffusion for image generation.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases 9B FLUX.2 Image Model

The new 9-billion-parameter model uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture, promising higher performance than existing open-source alternatives.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases New FLUX.2 Image Model

The new 9-billion-parameter text-to-image model uses a novel architecture that operates directly on pixels for faster, more efficient generation.

Jan 14, 2026
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 Klein 9B
Qwen · Alibaba/Image Editing

Qwen Releases Open, Bilingual Image Editing Model

The new diffusion model from Alibaba's team allows for precise, instruction-based image modifications in both English and Chinese.

Dec 17, 2025
Image Editing
Qwen-Image-Edit 2511
Meituan/Image Editing

Meituan Releases Open, Bilingual Image Editing Model

The new LongCat-Image-Edit model follows natural language instructions to perform complex photo manipulations in both English and Chinese.

Dec 5, 2025
Image Editing
LongCat-Image-Edit
Black Forest Labs/Text → ImageMajor release

Black Forest Labs Releases Open-Source FLUX.2 Image Model

The developer preview of the next-generation text-to-image architecture promises significant architectural improvements over its predecessor.

Nov 22, 2025
Image EditingText → Image
FLUX.2 [dev]
Qwen · Alibaba/Image Editing

Qwen Releases Open-Source Instruction-Based Image Editor

The new model from Alibaba's Qwen team allows users to modify images using natural language prompts instead of complex tools or masks.

Sep 22, 2025
Image Editing
Qwen-Image-Edit-2509
Qwen · Alibaba/Image EditingMajor release

Qwen Releases Open Model for Image Editing

The new open-source model from Alibaba lets users edit images with simple text commands in both English and Chinese.

Aug 17, 2025
Image Editing
Qwen-Image-Edit
Skywork/Any-to-Any

Skywork Releases UniPic, a Unified 1.5B Vision Model

The new autoregressive model from the Chinese AI lab can understand, generate, and edit images within a single, compact framework.

Jul 29, 2025
Image EditingAny-to-Any
Skywork-UniPic-1.5B
HiDream.ai/Image Editing

HiDream.ai Releases 17B Open Image Editing Model

The new MIT-licensed model, HiDream-E1.1, allows for complex image modifications by following natural language instructions.

Jul 16, 2025
Image Editing
HiDream-E1.1
FreedomIntelligence/Any-to-Any

Janus-4o-7B Adds Image Generation to 7B Multimodal AI

The new 7-billion-parameter model from FreedomIntelligence can process various inputs and generate or edit images based on text prompts.

Jun 23, 2025
Image EditingAny-to-Any
Janus-4o-7B