Qwen Image 3.0 Pro • Hacker News Board

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by cubefox » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

john_strinlai wrote: post #8

cubefox wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The page does not mention open source.

> The page does not mention open source. on the right-hand side, it says: "Version Tag: MAJOR Open Source: No Updated: Jul 20, 2026"

It doesn't for me.

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by themanmaran » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:18 PM UTC

Pretty annoying user experience trying to test out the model on the official Qwen site. You get an immediate popup with "Security Notice: For security purposes, please add a payment method" that blocks you from clicking anywhere.

Honestly if you're launching a new model, you should probably just make it free for the 24 hours after launch so people can test it out. Otherwise just wait till it's on openrouter.

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

causal wrote: post #10

Old news, no?

The model was added to OpenRouter yesterday.

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

Also available on OpenRouter (whose image output support is getting better): https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen-image-3-pro

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by sinak » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:21 PM UTC

Looks like this model is meaningfully less good than gpt-image-2. Arena.ai score is 1263 vs 1380.

https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

sinak wrote: post #15

Looks like this model is meaningfully less good than gpt-image-2. Arena.ai score is 1263 vs 1380. https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image

Everything is less good than gpt-2-image and I suspect that will be the case for awhile, until potentially Nano Banana Pro 2.

However, cost is significantly lower in this case. A Pro image here is $0.04, a gpt-2-image high is $0.21 and lower resolution.

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by DANmode » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:23 PM UTC

sinak wrote: post #15

Looks like this model is meaningfully less good than gpt-image-2. Arena.ai score is 1263 vs 1380. https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image

Less than 10% is meaningful?

If these were processors, I wouldn’t spend another hundred on the faster one…

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by vunderba » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

phildougherty wrote: post #2

is this going to get released on huggingface or is it cloud/hosted only?

Given that Qwen Image 2 didn’t even get an open-weight release, I really doubt we’re going to see any kind of open release for it. They seem to have completely shifted over to proprietary models sadly.

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by DANmode » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

cubefox wrote: post #11

john_strinlai wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The page does not mention open source. on the right-hand side, it says: "Version Tag: MAJOR Open Source: No Updated: Jul 20, 2026"

It doesn't for me.

Are you on mobile? Doesn’t seem to show on mobile.

Re: Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

DANmode wrote: post #17

sinak wrote: post #15

Looks like this model is meaningfully less good than gpt-image-2. Arena.ai score is 1263 vs 1380. https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text-to-image

Less than 10% is meaningful? If these were processors, I wouldn’t spend another hundred on the faster one…

The scores are pairwise ELO rankings, not simple metric scores.