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Z-Image
Z-Image Turbo is a 6B-parameter text-to-image model from Tongyi Lab. Its distilled few-step (S3-DiT) architecture generates in near real time, it excels at photorealistic portraits, and it renders both Chinese and English text — a good fit for batch drafts, marketing assets and quick previews. It does text-to-image only: no reference images, one image per request. For reference-based editing use the Seedream Series or the Qwen Image Series.

Quick start

A successful submission returns a task_id. Retrieve the result with GET /v1/tasks/{task_id}, wait inline with Prefer: wait, or configure a webhook.

Request parameters

string
required
Must be z-image-turbo.
string
default:"generate"
Value: generate. This model does text-to-image only.
string
required
The image description, in Chinese or English.
string
Framing: 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4, 3:2, 2:3.
string
Output resolution, 1k or 2k.
See Submit a task for callback_url, callback_events, Prefer: wait, Idempotency-Key and the maximum-cost header. This model does not accept image_urls, n, seed, quality, negative_prompt, mask_url or prompt_extend. Any other parameter returns 400 and is not billed.

Limits

Pricing

Billed at a fixed price per successfully generated image, with a single unit price. Rates are in price_config on GET /v1/models and in the console’s Model Market. What a single call actually cost is the cost field on the task response — an integer quota at 500,000 quota = 1 USD, not dollars. Resolution, aspect ratio and prompt length do not affect the price, so the cost of a call is known before it is sent. You are only billed for a successfully generated image. Failed and cancelled tasks, and tasks that return no usable image, are refunded in full.

Response

Completed task
Generated images come back in result.images, and expires_at is when that link stops working. See Query Task Status for the full field list.