Alibaba

Z-Image Turbo

AI Image Editing Model

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All Text to Image Image Edit

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Tongyi-MAI's 6-billion parameter distilled text-to-image model optimized for speed, achieving high-quality generation in 8 steps or fewer with support for bilingual text rendering

What Z-Image Turbo is good at

Rankings based on human votes in the Lumenfall Arena, where real users pick their favorite without knowing which model made which image. Excels at #8 Photorealism (Text-to-Image), #8 Product, Branding & Commercial (Text-to-Image), #8 Portrait (Text-to-Image), and #15 Text Rendering (Text-to-Image) , placing in the top 39% of all competing models.

Z-Image Turbo Strengths

Z-Image Turbo outperforms most competing models here

Photorealism

Text-to-Image

Ranked #8 of 38 models · 48.8% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Candid Street Photography Chalkboard Menu Magic Burger Explosion: Fie... The Capybara Taxi Driver The Reversed Rodeo

Product, Branding & Commercial

Text-to-Image

Ranked #8 of 29 models · 51.5% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Magic Burger Explosion: Fie... Vintage Cafe Logo

Portrait

Text-to-Image

Ranked #8 of 23 models · 60.0% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Fantasy Warrior

Text Rendering

Text-to-Image

Ranked #15 of 37 models · 42.7% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Same prompt, other models

Ranked using Apollo 11: Journey to Tranq... Chalkboard Menu Magic Burger Explosion: Fie... Modern Clean Menu The Halloween Invitation Vintage Cafe Logo

Other categories

Z-Image Turbo competes but doesn't rank as highly

Photorealism

Image Editing

Ranked #16 of 19 models · 1.5% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Z-Image Turbo — Photorealism (edited)

Before After

Bald man challenge

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#15 Seedream 4.0 ranks higher

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#15 Seedream 4.0 ranks higher

Ranked using Bald man challenge Golden Hour Stroll Man and Car in California Outfit Transfer Challenge

Portrait

Image Editing

Ranked #15 of 15 models · 0.0% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Z-Image Turbo — Portrait (edited)

Before After

Bald man challenge

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana ranks higher

Before After

#4 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#12 Wan 2.6 ranks higher

Ranked using Bald man challenge