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Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 still lacks Grok-like ease
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Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 still lacks Grok-like ease

A LocalLLaMA user says simple edit requests in ComfyUI with Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 and Flux still produce poor results compared with Grok or Gemini. The core question is whether local image editing can match that one-shot, revision-friendly workflow without heavy prompting, LoRAs, or extra setup.

// ANALYSIS

The models can already do useful image editing, but the real gap is product UX, not just raw model capability. Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 improves consistency and even folds in some community LoRA behavior, yet ComfyUI still exposes too much of the machinery for the “upload and say change the shoes” workflow.

  • A 4090 is enough for local inference; the bottleneck is instruction-following quality and workflow design, not GPU class alone.
  • Simple prompts like “remove background” often need hidden structure behind the scenes, which cloud apps provide through prompt expansion, task routing, and tighter edit presets.
  • Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 is aimed at iterative editing, but it still benefits from structured prompts, preset nodes, and edit-specific front ends.
  • If the goal is Grok/Gemini-like convenience, prebuilt wrappers around models such as FLUX.1 Kontext or Qwen are closer than raw ComfyUI graphs.
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qwen-image-edit-2511flux-kontextimage-genmultimodalself-hostedprompt-engineering

DISCOVERED

3d ago

2026-04-09

PUBLISHED

3d ago

2026-04-09

RELEVANCE

7/ 10

AUTHOR

minmin713