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FLUX.2 dev vs Qwen-Image workflows

Choosing an image editing or text-to-image workflow. There is no shared reviewed quality benchmark for both checkpoints. Choose by the documented task, license and runtime path; no cross-arena score comparison is implied.

Facts from the reviewed catalog
Field	FLUX.2 [dev]	Qwen-Image
Task	image-to-image / editing	text-to-image / editing
License	FLUX [dev] Non-Commercial License ↗	Apache-2.0 ↗
Quality evidence	1000.0 · image arena Elo · Nov 2025 · source ↗	886.0 · image arena Elo · Aug 2025 · source ↗
Memory	The official repository documents quantized consumer-GPU paths for RTX 4090/5090; it does not state one minimum for every configuration. Quantization, remote text encoder, resolution and reference count change the requirement.	NVIDIA GPU acceleration is recommended; no minimum is published in the model card. Resolution, precision and whether all conditioning components are resident change the requirement.
Checkpoint	official card ↗	official card ↗

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Catalog reviewed: 2026-09-24. LiveBench snapshot: 2026-06-25; 2026-09-22.