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FLUX.2 Klein vs Qwen Image 2.0

Qwen Image 2.0 (65) scores higher than FLUX.2 Klein (24) on the photo-anchored quality scale, where a real photograph is 100.

FLUX.2 Klein
Qwen Image 2.0

Overview

VendorBlack Forest Labs
VendorAlibaba
ReleasedJan 15, 2026
ReleasedFeb 10, 2026
LicenseFLUX Non-Commercial
License—
Input modalities
Input modalities
Output modalities
Output modalities
Pricing $0.012 / img
Pricing $0.035 / img

Score

Overall 24
Overall 65

Same brief, side by side

Fashion and beauty

Prompt used:A Black woman with long locs, bare shoulders and a strapless cream top stands among dense tropical foliage and looks calmly into the lens. She holds an amber glass dropper bottle with a gold cap up in front of her chest with both hands, fingertips lightly touching it. Broad green leaves and tall reed stems fill the background; a blurred leaf crosses the bottom of the frame.

FLUX.2 Klein — Fashion and beauty: A Black woman with long locs, bare shoulders and a strapless cream top stands am43Qwen Image 2.0 — Fashion and beauty: A Black woman with long locs, bare shoulders and a strapless cream top stands am69

Food and beverage

Prompt used:A young woman with dark hair in a beige knitted t-shirt holds an open kraft cardboard pizza box in front of her and lifts one slice out of it, smiling and looking down at the pizza. The pizza is a thin-crust with ham, mushrooms, tomato, green pepper and melted cheese, one slice missing and the lifted slice trailing toward the camera. The background is a plain dark teal wall.

FLUX.2 Klein — Food and beverage: A young woman with dark hair in a beige knitted t-shirt holds an open kraft card−41Qwen Image 2.0 — Food and beverage: A young woman with dark hair in a beige knitted t-shirt holds an open kraft card46

Interior

Prompt used:A spacious modern hotel room. A double bed with a pale wood slatted headboard, crisp white linen and a beige throw at the foot stands against the left wall, with a small wooden bench beside it. Turquoise blackout curtains flank a bright window with white sheers; a cream armchair with a mustard cushion and a round side table sit in the window bay. On the right, past a white structural column, a black flat TV on a bracket, a mirror, a white writing desk with a telephone and a lamp, a white office chair and a chrome bin. The floor is covered wall to wall with a striped carpet in turquoise, sand and grey. On the far left the corner of an orange armchair and a second desk.

FLUX.2 Klein — Interior: A spacious modern hotel room. A double bed with a pale wood slatted headboard, c64Qwen Image 2.0 — Interior: A spacious modern hotel room. A double bed with a pale wood slatted headboard, c104

Layout and typography

Prompt used:A teenager's home study corner. A silver all-in-one computer on a wooden desk shows a quiz page headed "Geometry Quiz" with the line "Test your geometry skills!" beneath it, a triangle diagram labelled A and B with a question mark, and a second question "2. Which shape is trapezoid?" above three coloured shapes marked A, B and C in circles. The wall behind is covered with a year calendar grid of twelve months, a pink poster reading "Toys friday", a comic-style poster of a woman in sunglasses captioned "THE MOST POWERFUL WARRIOR!", and pinned photographs. On the desk: a white keyboard and mouse, an open notebook with a pencil, a banana, a glass bowl of sweets, potted cacti, a desk lamp, a small digital clock and a stack of hardback books with "ENGLISH" and "CHEMISTRY" on the spines. A brown moulded chair stands at the left.

FLUX.2 Klein — Layout and typography: A teenager's home study corner. A silver all-in-one computer on a wooden desk sh−21Qwen Image 2.0 — Layout and typography: A teenager's home study corner. A silver all-in-one computer on a wooden desk sh14

People and lifestyle

Prompt used:A wide-angle group selfie of five friends at a house party, all laughing and crowded into frame. Left: a curly-haired young man in a denim jacket over a white tee, arm extended toward the camera. Next to him a Black man in a white football jersey with red and navy stripes, giving a thumbs up and holding a beer bottle. Behind them a bearded man in a paisley bandana, round glasses and a rust knitted polo, raising a glass of beer. On the right a red-haired woman in a mesh top laughing with her eyes closed, and in front of her a dark-haired woman in a pink shirt and tinted narrow sunglasses holding a bottle of pink drink. The room behind is a dark loft with shelves, a lit table lamp, a colourful painting and blue LED glow.

FLUX.2 Klein — People and lifestyle: A wide-angle group selfie of five friends at a house party, all laughing and cro−56Qwen Image 2.0 — People and lifestyle: A wide-angle group selfie of five friends at a house party, all laughing and cro15

Product and e-commerce

Prompt used:Two wireless earbud charging cases displayed on white geometric podiums, both open with the earbuds inside. On the left, a white case tilted on a cube, lit with pink from the left and blue from the right. On the right and slightly lower, a black glossy case on a second block, catching a red highlight along the earbuds. The blocks stand on a mirrored surface reflecting them and a pink light streak. The background is a smooth purple-to-blue gradient.

FLUX.2 Klein — Product and e-commerce: Two wireless earbud charging cases displayed on white geometric podiums, both op49Qwen Image 2.0 — Product and e-commerce: Two wireless earbud charging cases displayed on white geometric podiums, both op87

Social marketing

Prompt used:A full-length shot of a young mixed-race woman with shoulder-length curly dark hair standing in a bright minimal showroom, looking calmly into the lens. She wears an oversized purple sweatshirt, light blue wide-leg jeans and white sneakers, and holds two large printed sheets and a fan of colour swatches against her hip. Behind her a fluted light wood sideboard on thin black legs with white narcissi in a pot, a small framed picture, a white vase with bare branches and a blue object; above it a large arched mirror reflecting shelves and a window. Plain white walls and a grey seamless concrete floor.

FLUX.2 Klein — Social marketing: A full-length shot of a young mixed-race woman with shoulder-length curly dark h47Qwen Image 2.0 — Social marketing: A full-length shot of a young mixed-race woman with shoulder-length curly dark h71

Street and architecture

Prompt used:A flat frontal telephoto view of part of a glass office tower facade, filling the whole frame with a grid of tall dark-framed windows over four floors. Through the glass, lit office interiors are visible: white columns, desks, monitors, office chairs, printers, potted plants and a satellite dish. Across the upper glass, warped mirror reflections of a neighbouring building and sky ripple over the panes in green-grey tones.

FLUX.2 Klein — Street and architecture: A flat frontal telephoto view of part of a glass office tower facade, filling th34Qwen Image 2.0 — Street and architecture: A flat frontal telephoto view of part of a glass office tower facade, filling th73

Judged head to head

FLUX.2 Klein and Qwen Image 2.0 were also compared with each other directly. The verdict above still comes from the scale.

Qwen Image 2.0 was preferred over FLUX.2 Klein in 69% of blind comparisons.

Gap (Bradley–Terry)
−0.85 (interval not published)
Preference
31.4% of blind comparisons preferred it (ties split, all questions, vote share)
Prompt adherence17 preferred · 47 equal · 80 other preferred
Believability22 preferred · 34 equal · 88 other preferred
Aesthetics41 preferred · 30 equal · 73 other preferred

144 blind comparisons, each pair shown 3 times

FLUX.2 Klein vs Qwen Image 2.0: side-by-side summary

FLUX.2 Klein, from Black Forest Labs, released Jan 15, 2026, scores 24 on our photo-anchored quality scale, where a real photograph is 100. Average API price $0.012 / img across 4 providers. License: FLUX Non-Commercial.

Qwen Image 2.0, from Alibaba, released Feb 10, 2026, scores 65 on our photo-anchored quality scale, where a real photograph is 100. Average API price $0.035 / img across 4 providers.

Both scores come from blind pairwise tests on the same 48 scenes between 21 and 25 August 2026: 288 pairs and 863 judgements, each pair judged 3 times.

Score

  • FLUX.2 Klein: 24
  • Qwen Image 2.0: 65

Price

  • FLUX.2 Klein: $0.012 / img
  • Qwen Image 2.0: $0.035 / img

Vendor

  • FLUX.2 Klein: Black Forest Labs
  • Qwen Image 2.0: Alibaba

Released

  • FLUX.2 Klein: Jan 15, 2026
  • Qwen Image 2.0: Feb 10, 2026

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