Step1X-Edit-v1p2

🔥🔥🔥 News!!

Nov 26, 2025: 👋 We release Step1X-Edit-v1p2 (referred to as ReasonEdit-S in the paper), a native reasoning edit model with better performance on KRIS-Bench and GEdit-Bench. Technical report can be found here.

<table> <thead> <tr> <th rowspan="2">Models</th> <th colspan="3"> <div align="center">GEdit-Bench</div> </th> <th colspan="4"> <div align="center">Kris-Bench</div> </th> </tr> <tr> <th>G_SC⬆️</th> <th>G_PQ⬆️ </th> <th>G_O⬆️</th> <th>FK⬆️</th> <th>CK⬆️</th> <th>PK⬆️ </th> <th>Overall⬆️</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Flux-Kontext-dev </td> <td>7.16</td> <td>7.37</td> <td>6.51</td> <td>53.28</td> <td>50.36</td> <td>42.53</td> <td>49.54</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 </td> <td>8.00</td> <td>7.86</td> <td>7.56</td> <td>61.47</td> <td>56.79</td> <td>47.07</td> <td>56.15</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Step1X-Edit v1.1 </td> <td>7.66</td> <td>7.35</td> <td>6.97</td> <td>53.05</td> <td>54.34</td> <td>44.66</td> <td>51.59</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Step1x-edit-v1p2-preview </td> <td>8.14</td> <td>7.55</td> <td>7.42</td> <td>60.49</td> <td>58.81</td> <td>41.77</td> <td>52.51</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Step1x-edit-v1p2 (base) </td> <td>7.77</td> <td>7.65</td> <td>7.24</td> <td>58.23</td> <td>60.55</td> <td>46.21</td> <td>56.33</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Step1x-edit-v1p2 (thinking) </td> <td>8.02</td> <td>7.64</td> <td>7.36</td> <td>59.79</td> <td>62.76</td> <td>49.78</td> <td>58.64</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Step1x-edit-v1p2 (thinking + reflection) </td> <td>8.18</td> <td>7.85</td> <td>7.58</td> <td>62.44</td> <td>65.72</td> <td>50.42</td> <td>60.93</td> </tr> </table>

⚡️ Model Usages

Make sure your transformers==4.55.0 (we tested on this version)

Install the diffusers package from the following command:

git clone -b step1xedit_v1p2 https://github.com/Peyton-Chen/diffusers.git
cd diffusers
pip install -e .

pip install RegionE # optional, for faster inference

Here is an example for using the Step1X-Edit-v1p2 model to edit images:

import torch
from diffusers import Step1XEditPipelineV1P2
from diffusers.utils import load_image
from RegionE import RegionEHelper

pipe = Step1XEditPipelineV1P2.from_pretrained("stepfun-ai/Step1X-Edit-v1p2", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
pipe.to("cuda")

# Import the RegionEHelper, optional, for faster inference
regionehelper = RegionEHelper(pipe)
regionehelper.set_params()   # default hyperparameter
regionehelper.enable()

print("=== processing image ===")
image = load_image("examples/0000.jpg").convert("RGB")
prompt = "add a ruby pendant on the girl's neck."
enable_thinking_mode=True
enable_reflection_mode=True
pipe_output = pipe(
    image=image,
    prompt=prompt,
    num_inference_steps=50,
    true_cfg_scale=6,
    generator=torch.Generator().manual_seed(42),
    enable_thinking_mode=enable_thinking_mode,
    enable_reflection_mode=enable_reflection_mode,
)
if enable_thinking_mode:
    print("Reformat Prompt:", pipe_output.reformat_prompt)
for image_idx in range(len(pipe_output.images)):
    pipe_output.images[image_idx].save(f"0001-{image_idx}.jpg", lossless=True)
    if enable_reflection_mode:
        print(pipe_output.think_info[image_idx])
        print(pipe_output.best_info[image_idx])
pipe_output.final_images[0].save(f"0001-final.jpg", lossless=True)

regionehelper.disable()

The results looks like:

<div align="center"> <img width="1080" alt="results" src="assets/v1p2_vis.jpeg"> </div>

📖 Introduction

Step1X-Edit-v1p2 represents a step towards reasoning-enhanced image editing models. We show that unlocking the reasoning capabilities of MLLMs can further expand the limits of instruction-based editing. Specifically, we introduce two complementary reasoning mechanisms, thinking and reflection, to improve instruction comprehension and editing accuracy. Building on these mechanisms, our framework performs editing in a thinking–editing–reflection loop: the thinking stage leverages MLLM world knowledge to interpret abstract instructions, while the reflection stage reviews the edited outputs, corrects unintended changes, and determines when to stop. For more details, please refer to our technical report.

<div align="center"> <img width="1080" alt="results" src="assets/ReasonEdit_intro.jpg"> </div>

Citation

@article{yin2025reasonedit,
  title={ReasonEdit: Towards Reasoning-Enhanced Image Editing Models}, 
  author={Fukun Yin, Shiyu Liu, Yucheng Han, Zhibo Wang, Peng Xing, Rui Wang, Wei Cheng, Yingming Wang, Aojie Li, Zixin Yin, Pengtao Chen, Xiangyu Zhang, Daxin Jiang, Xianfang Zeng, Gang Yu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22625},
  year={2025}
}

@article{liu2025step1x-edit,
  title={Step1X-Edit: A Practical Framework for General Image Editing}, 
  author={Shiyu Liu and Yucheng Han and Peng Xing and Fukun Yin and Rui Wang and Wei Cheng and Jiaqi Liao and Yingming Wang and Honghao Fu and Chunrui Han and Guopeng Li and Yuang Peng and Quan Sun and Jingwei Wu and Yan Cai and Zheng Ge and Ranchen Ming and Lei Xia and Xianfang Zeng and Yibo Zhu and Binxing Jiao and Xiangyu Zhang and Gang Yu and Daxin Jiang},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.17761},
  year={2025}
}