Z-Image
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
- Family
- Z-Image
- Released
- 2025-11-26
- Parameters
- 6B
- Architecture
- Diffusion
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Open weights
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
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.