HunyuanImage
Tencent
HunyuanImage is an image generation model line from Tencent. The latest release is HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (26 Jan 2026). This page tracks all 5 HunyuanImage releases since 22 May 2024, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instructreleased
Adds Instruct (reasoning) mode for intelligent prompt enhancement and CoT thinking; image-to-image generation; distilled checkpoint available for 8-step efficient deployment
- License
- Tencent Hunyuan License
- Availability
- Self-host, Community API
Release date confirmed from GitHub README: 'January 26, 2026'.
HunyuanImage 3.0released
Massive MoE architecture (80B total, 13B active); major quality jump over 2.1; vLLM acceleration support; image-to-image generation
- License
- Tencent Hunyuan License
- Availability
- Self-host, Community API
- Parameters
- 80B total (13B active, MoE)
Release date confirmed from GitHub README: 'September 28, 2025: HunyuanImage-3.0 Open Source'.
HunyuanImage 2.1released
New HunyuanImage generation (rebrand from HunyuanDiT); 2K resolution output; ranked #1 open-source on Arena T2I leaderboard on release; FP8 quantized models for 24GB VRAM
- License
- Tencent Hunyuan License
- Availability
- Self-host, Community API
- Resolution
- 2K
Release date confirmed from GitHub README: 'September 8, 2025: Released inference code and model weights'. License date also confirmed in LICENSE file. A HunyuanImage 2.0 likely existed internally before this public release.
HunyuanDiT 1.2released
Reduced oversaturation and watermark artifacts vs 1.1; added ControlNet (canny, pose, depth) and LoRA; 50% inference acceleration via distillation
- License
- Tencent Hunyuan License
- Availability
- Self-host, Community API
HunyuanDiT 1.0released
Multi-resolution DiT with fine-grained Chinese language understanding; first major open-source Chinese-bilingual image model from Tencent; DialogGen multi-turn interface
- License
- Tencent Hunyuan License
- Availability
- Self-host, Community API
Repo: github.com/Tencent/HunyuanDiT. Commercial use terms in custom Tencent license - verify before use.
FAQ
- When was HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct released?
- HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct was released on 26 Jan 2026.
- Is HunyuanImage open source?
- Yes. HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct ships open weights under the Tencent Hunyuan License licence.
- Where can I use HunyuanImage?
- HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct is available via Self-host and Community API.
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