Alibaba's Qwen-Image 2.1 allows free commercial use up to 300k images/month
Read original source →reddit.comQwen-Image 2.1 ships under the Qwen Research License, which restricts it to research or evaluation purposes only, so a user emailed the licensing address to ask about commercial terms. Alibaba's reply, not publicly documented, sets a free tier of up to 300,000 images per month.
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