LLM Reference

Z-Image

Released
2025-11-26
Last refreshed
2026-06-15
Status
Researched 48d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: unknownMultimodalVision

Z-Image is a released vision model with open-weight; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
  • Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
Specifications
Family
Z-Image
Released
2025-11-26
Parameters
6B
Architecture
Diffusion
Specialization
image-generation
Openness
Open weights
Created by

Chinese AI research lab developing GLM language models.

Beijing, China
Founded 2019
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Z-Image by Zhipu AI (Z.ai). A 6B single-stream Diffusion Transformer (S3-DiT) model for efficient few-step text-to-image generation. Supports bilingual Chinese-English text rendering. Z-Image Turbo variant ranked #1 among open-source models on the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Leaderboard (December 2025). Available via Fal API (fal-ai/z-image/turbo).

Z-Image is an open-weight model. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Z-Image yet.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

Multimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.