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Qwen Image 2.0 Pro vs Seedream 4.0

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro (80) scores higher than Seedream 4.0 (57) on the photo-anchored quality scale, where a real photograph is 100. Never tested head-to-head; ranked from separate sessions on the same scale.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro
Seedream 4.0

Overview

VendorAlibaba
VendorByteDance
ReleasedMar 3, 2026
ReleasedSep 9, 2025
License—
LicenseProprietary
Input modalities
Input modalities
Output modalities
Output modalities
Pricing $0.076 / img
Pricing $0.03 / img

Score

Overall 80
Overall 57

Same brief, side by side

Fashion and beauty

Prompt used:A fashion portrait shot from far below against a cloudless deep blue sky. A woman with long thin box braids sits with her knees wide apart, wearing a monochrome outfit of vivid red: a boxy short-sleeved top and very wide-legged trousers whose fabric spreads across the whole bottom of the frame like wings. Her hands rest on her knees, a gold rectangular watch on one wrist, a small tattoo on the other forearm. She looks off to the side past the camera, chin lifted.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — Fashion and beauty: A fashion portrait shot from far below against a cloudless deep blue sky. A woma67Seedream 4.0 — Fashion and beauty: A fashion portrait shot from far below against a cloudless deep blue sky. A woma80

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.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — Food and beverage: A young woman with dark hair in a beige knitted t-shirt holds an open kraft card62Seedream 4.0 — Food and beverage: A young woman with dark hair in a beige knitted t-shirt holds an open kraft card57

Interior

Prompt used:An open-plan office lounge. Overhead, a large angular ceiling installation of interlocking hexagonal LED light bars glows bright white. Below stand dark brown boxy armchairs and a high-backed sofa around a low square table on a herringbone parquet floor. On the right a glass partition wall with white sheer curtains, a long white meeting table and dark chairs behind it, and a white moulded chair with a black frame in the foreground beside a round black table. On the left a black-framed structure, a vertical green plant wall, a bright doorway and a large ficus in the front corner.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — Interior: An open-plan office lounge. Overhead, a large angular ceiling installation of in115Seedream 4.0 — Interior: An open-plan office lounge. Overhead, a large angular ceiling installation of in83

Layout and typography

Prompt used:A woman seen through a shop window as she hangs a sign. She stands inside a dimly lit boutique, in a mustard sleeveless top, with blonde hair in a side braid and thick round black glasses, smiling as she reaches up with her right hand to hold a white rectangular card with a blue double border and the word OPEN in bold blue serif capitals. On the glass above the sign, gold vinyl lettering reads OPENING HOURS on the top line, then 7.30AM - 10.30PM in large numerals, then MONDAY - SUNDAY beneath, with small ornamental divider rules between the lines. The window has a black-painted frame with glazing bars; inside, warm hanging pendant lamps, a garland of orange lights, clothes rails and a red garment are visible in the blur.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — Layout and typography: A woman seen through a shop window as she hangs a sign. She stands inside a diml51Seedream 4.0 — Layout and typography: A woman seen through a shop window as she hangs a sign. She stands inside a diml−14

People and lifestyle

Prompt used:Two young women working together at a home-office desk. The one on the left, in a light blue pinstripe shirt with her dark hair tied back, leans in and points with her index finger at a large silver all-in-one monitor; the screen shows a photo-editing application with dark grey panels, a colour picker and a warm candlelit still-life open in the canvas. The second woman, seen from behind over her shoulder in the right foreground, out of focus, holds a stylus over a graphics tablet. On the wooden desktop: a wide black keyboard, a mouse, a camera body, a lens cap, potted plants on the windowsill, an angled desk lamp glowing warm, a window with white venetian blinds behind them.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — People and lifestyle: Two young women working together at a home-office desk. The one on the left, in 57Seedream 4.0 — People and lifestyle: Two young women working together at a home-office desk. The one on the left, in 16

Product and e-commerce

Prompt used:Two chunky sneakers on a white seamless background with a white plinth. One rests on top of the plinth with its red lace trailing over the edge; the second hangs in the air below and to the right, tilted, as if just knocked off. Both shoes are cream leather with panels of mint green, orange, purple and red, grey mesh side windows, a beige buckled strap across the laces and a thick white sole.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — Product and e-commerce: Two chunky sneakers on a white seamless background with a white plinth. One rest88Seedream 4.0 — Product and e-commerce: Two chunky sneakers on a white seamless background with a white plinth. One rest67

Social marketing

Prompt used:A low-angle outdoor selfie of a young woman with dark curly hair in two afro puffs, large white round earrings and a white necklace, laughing widely with her arm stretched toward the camera. She wears a mint quilted bomber jacket over a navy and white striped top with a canvas tote strap on her shoulder, and holds a glass bottle of detox water with cucumber slices and lemon. Behind her a modern building facade with pink and mint vertical louvres, ornamental grasses and a pale concrete bench.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — Social marketing: A low-angle outdoor selfie of a young woman with dark curly hair in two afro puf96Seedream 4.0 — Social marketing: A low-angle outdoor selfie of a young woman with dark curly hair in two afro puf79

Street and architecture

Prompt used:The interior of a neo-Gothic church seen from a high balcony looking down the nave. Rows of black folding chairs stand in blocks on a chequerboard tile floor of cream and dark grey, split by a deep red patterned carpet runner. At the far end a plain altar under a white cloth sits in deep shadow, with a tall wooden cross on a stand and a dark curtained doorway beside it. The right wall is pale grey-green with clustered stone pilasters, three tall arched windows with white glazing bars blazing with daylight, and small gilded plaques of the stations of the cross mounted between them. A rose window with stone tracery glows high in the far wall.

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro — Street and architecture: The interior of a neo-Gothic church seen from a high balcony looking down the na82Seedream 4.0 — Street and architecture: The interior of a neo-Gothic church seen from a high balcony looking down the na53

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro vs Seedream 4.0: side-by-side summary

Qwen Image 2.0 Pro, from Alibaba, released Mar 3, 2026, scores 80 on our photo-anchored quality scale, where a real photograph is 100. Average API price $0.076 / img across 4 providers.

Seedream 4.0, from ByteDance, released Sep 9, 2025, scores 57 on our photo-anchored quality scale, where a real photograph is 100. Average API price $0.03 / img across 4 providers. License: Proprietary.

Both scores come from blind pairwise tests on the same 48 scenes between 6 and 22 September 2026: 576 pairs and 1,727 judgements, each pair judged 3 times.

Score

  • Qwen Image 2.0 Pro: 80
  • Seedream 4.0: 57

Price

  • Qwen Image 2.0 Pro: $0.076 / img
  • Seedream 4.0: $0.03 / img

Vendor

  • Qwen Image 2.0 Pro: Alibaba
  • Seedream 4.0: ByteDance

Released

  • Qwen Image 2.0 Pro: Mar 3, 2026
  • Seedream 4.0: Sep 9, 2025

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