Asked Alibaba about commercial use of Qwen-Image 2.1 — up to 300k images/month is free. Here's what the agreement says.
Qwen-Image 2.1 ships under the Qwen Research License ("research or evaluation purposes only"), so many wrote it off for commercial work.
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Key points
- I emailed the licensing address in September to ask what a commercial license costs.
- Tiers, by images generated per calendar month: up to 300,000 free · 300k–3M a 20% revenue share · above 3M USD 500,000/year plus 15%.
- What the "Free-Tier Commercial License Addendum" actually says:
- The addendum says it becomes binding when they send the approval email and you accept by replying, but their business manager additionally asked for an Alibaba Cloud enterprise account with company verification — so I asked which applies for the free tier.
Sources (1)
- [1]Asked Alibaba about commercial use of Qwen-Image 2.1 — up to 300k images/month is free. Here's what the agreement says.r/StableDiffusion (top, day) · Oct 14, 05:31 AM
Qwen-Image 2.1 ships under the Qwen Research License ("research or evaluation purposes only"), so many wrote it off for commercial work.
I emailed the licensing address in September to ask what a commercial license costs.
Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.
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