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Why use Z-Image on fal API?
fal API offers Z-Image with competitive pricing. fal API is a developer platform for calling a large catalog of production-ready image, video, audio, vision, 3D, and multimodal generation models through a unified API surface.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: fal-ai/z-image/turbofal-ai/z-image/turboRequest example
fal-ai/z-image/turbo.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "fal-ai/z-image/turbo", not the LLMReference slug "z-image".
Capabilities
About Z-Image
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).
FAQ
What API model ID do I use for Z-Image on fal API?
Use the model ID fal-ai/z-image/turbo when calling fal API's API.
Who created Z-Image?
Z-Image was created by Zhipu AI as part of the Z-Image model family.
Is Z-Image open source?
Z-Image has open weights according to the seed data, but that does not necessarily mean an OSI-approved open-source license.