---
title: Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
metatags:
description: "Deploy Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 with SGLang - 20B image editing model with text rendering, character consistency, and geometric reasoning."
---
import { DiffusionModelTags } from '/src/snippets/diffusion/model-tags.jsx';
import { QwenImageEditDeployment } from '/src/snippets/diffusion/qwen-image-edit-deployment.jsx';
## 1. Model Introduction
[Qwen-Image-Edit-2511](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511) is the 20B editing counterpart to Qwen-Image. It is strongest at changing text, materials, lighting, viewpoint, or composition while reducing drift in regions that were not requested to change.
Choose it for identity-sensitive portrait edits, multi-person composition, typography replacement, and geometry-aware design work. It is substantially heavier than small specialist editors, and consistency is improved rather than guaranteed; evaluate untouched-region drift on the actual editing workload.
## 2. SGLang-diffusion Installation
SGLang-diffusion offers multiple installation methods. You can choose the most suitable installation method based on your hardware platform and requirements.
Please refer to the [official SGLang-diffusion installation guide](https://docs.sglang.io/docs/sglang-diffusion/installation) for installation instructions.
## 3. Model Deployment
This section provides deployment configurations optimized for different hardware platforms and use cases.
### 3.1 Basic Configuration
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 is a 20B parameter model optimized for image editing tasks. The recommended launch configurations vary by hardware.
**Interactive Command Generator**: Use the configuration selector below to automatically generate the appropriate deployment command for your hardware platform.
### 3.2 Configuration Tips
See [Performance Optimization](/docs/sglang-diffusion/performance-optimization) for acceleration features and their runtime requirements.
- `--vae-path`: Path to a custom VAE model or HuggingFace model ID (e.g., fal/FLUX.2-Tiny-AutoEncoder). If not specified, the VAE will be loaded from the main model path.
- `--num-gpus`: Number of GPUs to use
- `--tp-size`: Tensor parallelism size (only for the encoder; should not be larger than 1 if text encoder offload is enabled, as layer-wise offload plus prefetch is faster)
- `--sp-degree`: Sequence parallelism size (typically should match the number of GPUs)
- `--ulysses-degree`: The degree of DeepSpeed-Ulysses-style SP in USP
- `--ring-degree`: The degree of ring attention-style SP in USP
### 3.3 Decompose an image into layers on H200
`Qwen/Qwen-Image-Layered` returns separate RGBA images. For this model,
`--num-frames 4` requests four output layers. The CLI saves all four PNGs,
and `DiffGenerator.generate()` returns one result per layer.
On Linux with NVIDIA CUDA and two H200 GPUs, you can run the conditional and
unconditional branches on separate GPUs:
```bash Command
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1 sglang generate \
--model-path Qwen/Qwen-Image-Layered \
--num-gpus 2 \
--cfg-parallel-size 2 \
--tp-size 1 \
--ulysses-degree 1 \
--quality lossless \
--enable-torch-compile false \
--warmup-mode request \
--width 640 --height 640 --num-frames 4 \
--num-inference-steps 50 --guidance-scale 4.0 --seed 42 \
--image-path https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-Layered/main/assets/test_images/4.png \
--prompt "a high quality, cute halloween themed illustration, consistent style and lighting" \
--output-path outputs/qwen-layered \
--save-output
```
For a single H200, set `CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0`, `--num-gpus 1`, and
`--cfg-parallel-size 1`. Both configurations use eager execution. Layered
does not currently support breakable CUDA graph; enabling BCG falls back to
eager execution.
The Layered CFG policy gathers the branch predictions before applying the
single-GPU arithmetic order, preserving BF16 rounding and alpha values in the
validated fixed-seed example. Each GPU still holds a full DiT replica, so CFG
parallelism reduces request latency without reducing the model memory needed
on each GPU.
## 4. API Usage
For complete API documentation, please refer to the [official API usage guide](/docs/sglang-diffusion/api/openai_api).
### 4.1 Edit an Image
```python Example
import base64
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="EMPTY", base_url="http://localhost:3000/v1")
response = client.images.edit(
model="Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511",
image=open("input.png", "rb"),
prompt="Change the color of the taxi to black.",
n=1,
response_format="b64_json",
)
# Save the edited image
image_bytes = base64.b64decode(response.data[0].b64_json)
with open("output.png", "wb") as f:
f.write(image_bytes)
```
### 4.2 Advanced Usage
#### 4.2.1 Cache-DiT Acceleration
SGLang integrates [Cache-DiT](https://github.com/vipshop/cache-dit), a caching acceleration engine for Diffusion Transformers (DiT), to achieve up to 7.4x inference speedup with minimal quality loss. You can set `SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_ENABLED=True` to enable it. For more details, please refer to the SGLang Cache-DiT [documentation](/docs/sglang-diffusion/cache_dit).
**Basic Usage**
```bash Command
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_ENABLED=true sglang serve --model-path Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
```
**Advanced Usage**
- DBCache Parameters: DBCache controls block-level caching behavior:
| Parameter |
Env Variable |
Default |
Description |
| Fn |
`SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_FN` |
1 |
Number of first blocks to always compute |
| Bn |
`SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_BN` |
0 |
Number of last blocks to always compute |
| W |
`SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_WARMUP` |
4 |
Warmup steps before caching starts |
| R |
`SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_RDT` |
0.24 |
Residual difference threshold |
| MC |
`SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_MC` |
3 |
Maximum continuous cached steps |
- TaylorSeer Configuration: TaylorSeer improves caching accuracy using Taylor expansion:
| Parameter |
Env Variable |
Default |
Description |
| Enable |
`SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_TAYLORSEER` |
false |
Enable TaylorSeer calibrator |
| Order |
`SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_TS_ORDER` |
1 |
Taylor expansion order (1 or 2) |
Combined Configuration Example:
```bash Command
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_ENABLED=true \
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_FN=2 \
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_BN=1 \
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_WARMUP=4 \
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_RDT=0.4 \
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_MC=4 \
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_TAYLORSEER=true \
SGLANG_CACHE_DIT_TS_ORDER=2 \
sglang serve --model-path Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
```
#### 4.2.2 CPU Offload
- `--dit-cpu-offload`: Use CPU offload for DiT inference. Enable if run out of memory.
- `--text-encoder-cpu-offload`: Use CPU offload for text encoder inference.
- `--image-encoder-cpu-offload`: Use CPU offload for image encoder inference.
- `--vae-cpu-offload`: Use CPU offload for VAE.
- `--pin-cpu-memory`: Pin memory for CPU offload. Only added as a temp workaround if it throws "CUDA error: invalid argument".
#### 4.2.3 Known LoRA examples
Use `--lora-path` at startup or the [LoRA management API](/docs/sglang-diffusion/api/openai_api#lora-management) to load an adapter. Known Qwen-Image-Edit examples include:
- [`ostris/qwen_image_edit_inpainting`](https://huggingface.co/ostris/qwen_image_edit_inpainting)
- [`lightx2v/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Lightning`](https://huggingface.co/lightx2v/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511-Lightning)
## 5. Benchmark
Test Environment:
- Hardware: NVIDIA B200 GPU (1x)
- Model: Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
- sglang diffusion version: 0.5.6.post2
### 5.1 Speedup Benchmark
#### 5.1.1 Edit a image
**Server Command**:
```shell Command
sglang serve --model-path Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 --port 30000
```
**Benchmark Command**:
```shell Command
python3 -m sglang.multimodal_gen.benchmarks.bench_serving \
--dataset vbench --task image-to-image --num-prompts 1 --max-concurrency 1
```
**Result**:
```text Output
================= Serving Benchmark Result =================
Model: Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
Dataset: vbench
Task: image-to-image
--------------------------------------------------
Benchmark duration (s): 35.31
Request rate: inf
Max request concurrency: 1
Successful requests: 1/1
--------------------------------------------------
Request throughput (req/s): 0.03
Latency Mean (s): 35.3053
Latency Median (s): 35.3053
Latency P99 (s): 35.3053
--------------------------------------------------
Peak Memory Max (MB): 47959.35
Peak Memory Mean (MB): 47959.35
Peak Memory Median (MB): 47959.35
============================================================
```
#### 5.1.2 Edit a image with high concurrency
**Benchmark Command**:
```shell Command
python3 -m sglang.multimodal_gen.benchmarks.bench_serving \
--dataset vbench --task image-to-image --num-prompts 20 --max-concurrency 20
```
**Result**:
```text Output
================= Serving Benchmark Result =================
Model: Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2511
Dataset: vbench
Task: image-to-image
--------------------------------------------------
Benchmark duration (s): 286.11
Request rate: inf
Max request concurrency: 20
Successful requests: 20/20
--------------------------------------------------
Request throughput (req/s): 0.07
Latency Mean (s): 150.0428
Latency Median (s): 150.0600
Latency P99 (s): 283.3843
--------------------------------------------------
Peak Memory Max (MB): 47971.82
Peak Memory Mean (MB): 47971.49
Peak Memory Median (MB): 47971.29
============================================================
```
## 6. Run in ComfyUI
import { ComfyUISupport } from '/src/snippets/diffusion/comfyui-support.jsx';