Qwen releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-step accelerated image generation checkpoint

Qwen has published Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo on Hugging Face, an accelerated checkpoint of Qwen-Image-2.1 for text-to-image generation and image editing with 8 denoising steps.

The checkpoint uses the same 7B visual generation architecture, loads directly with QwenImage21Pipeline in Diffusers, and includes its recommended sampling schedule.

It defaults to CFG=1 and uses prefix KV caching to reuse text and reference-image context across steps.