Xiaohongshu's FireRed-Image-Edit-1.1 Tops Charts at Launch! 7.94 Score Beats Alibaba's Qwen-Image-Edit-2511

Xiaohongshu's FireRed-Image-Edit-1.1 Tops Charts at Launch! 7.94 Score Beats Alibaba's Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 Open-source image editing has a new SOTA champion. TL;DR : Xiaohongshu released FireRed-Image-Edit-1.1 on March 3rd, surpassing Alibaba's Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 (released in December) across 5 authoritative benchmarks with a score of 7.943, setting a new record for open-source image editing models. Achieves SOTA-level performance in identity consistency, multi-element fusion, and portrait makeup. 01 The Battle for Open-Source Image Editing SOTA 2026 has been a year of fierce competition in image editing. On December 23rd, Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-Edit-2511, scoring 7.877 (GEdit-EN) to claim the top spot in open-source rankings. Just 2 months later, Xiaohongshu delivered a surprise. On March 3rd, Xiaohongshu's foundation model team released FireRed-Image-Edit-1.1, scoring 7.943 to set a new record. Even more impressive: FireRed-Image-Edit-1.1 leads across all 5 author