Z-Image Turbo

Alibaba Tongyi-MAI's 6B open-weights text-to-image model; the distilled Turbo variant runs in 8 steps on 16 GB GPUs.

Where it ranks

C
Image generation
Models · Local · 934 on Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)

Vendor: Alibaba (Tongyi-MAI)
Family: Z-Image
Released: Nov 2025
Weights: Open: download and run it yourself
License: Apache-2.0
Parameters: 6.2B
GPU memory to run locally: ~16 GB (Model card: Z-Image-Turbo fits within 16 GB VRAM consumer devices.)
API price: $0.0050 per image (API price listed by Artificial Analysis for "Z-Image Turbo": $5 per 1k images; third-party hosted inference; weights free to download)
Access: Free (open weights)
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Price from artificialanalysis.ai, 18 Oct 2026.

Benchmark	Result	Entry on the leaderboard	As of	Source
Artificial Analysis Text to Image Arena (AA-Image-T2I v2.1)	934	`Z-Image Turbo` AA-Image-T2I v2.1 overall; rank 70, 7904 samples; page shows no last-updated date	18 Oct 2026	artificialanalysis.ai
LMArena Text-to-Image Arena	1,083	`z-image-turbo` from LMArena's official HF leaderboard dataset (text_to_image/latest, overall, published 2026-10-07; rank 59, 24808 votes); arena.ai blocks scripted fetches	7 Oct 2026	huggingface.co