Z-Image
Z-Image is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Z-Image
- Released
- 2025-11-26
- Parameters
- 6B
- Architecture
- Diffusion
- Specialization
- image-generation
- Openness
- Open weights
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · fal API
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. This page tracks provider routes through fal API. 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
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| fal API | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
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.
Frequently asked questions
When was Z-Image released?
Z-Image was released on 2025-11-26.
Which providers offer Z-Image?
Z-Image is available from 1 provider: fal API.
Cheapest of 1 route · fal API