Pruna cuts Qwen-Image 2.1 generation to five or eight steps
Pruna’s Qwen-Image 2.1 adapters let local users generate or edit images in 5 or 8 steps instead of the base model’s longer process, with claimed speedups of up to 6.3x and no classifier-free guidance. They load on top of the unchanged Qwen model, text encoder, and VAE, so existing pipelines can try the faster path. The 8-step version is the quality-first option, but v0.1 does not yet match the base model visually.