Qwen released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of Qwen-Image-2.1 that keeps the same 7B visual generation architecture while cutting text-to-image generation and image editing to 8 denoising steps, and it loads through the QwenImage21Pipeline in Diffusers. The model card says the checkpoint ships with its recommended sampling schedule, defaults to CFG=1 and uses prefix KV caching to reuse text and reference-image context across steps. On October 11, the Qwen AI platform launched APIs for Qwen-Image-2.1 Pro and Turbo; IT之家 reported that developers can add generation and editing to apps without deploying or managing inference infrastructure, with support for up to 10 reference images and region control via lasso, brush and independent masks.