Flux 1 Kontext Image Editing AI, developed by Black Forest Labs and launched in May 2025, is an innovative 12B rectified-flow transformer model optimized for iterative, in-context image editing. It uses dual CLIP encoders to understand both visual and textual intent, and excels at consistent edits across scenes or styles. Designed for ComfyUI workflows, it’s highly efficient in multi-step processes and is favored for its strong compositional reasoning, character preservation, and cinematic realism — especially in storytelling or sequential edit scenarios.

Qwen-Image-Edit AI is an open-source image editing model released by Alibaba’s Qwen team in August 2025. Based on their advanced MMDiT-20B architecture, it’s designed for precise instruction-based edits using both image and text prompts. It enables high-quality modifications like object additions, viewpoint changes, and style alterations while preserving local details and realism. The model supports bilingual input (English and Chinese), and is particularly strong in producing uncensored, highly accurate visual edits from simple prompts.