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

How Z-Image Turbo performs

Rankings based on human votes in the Lumenfall Arena, where real users pick their favorite without knowing which model made which image.

All categories

Z-Image Turbo competes across 5 categories in the arena

Preservation

Image Editing

Ranked #28 of 32 models · 0.0% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

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Bald man challenge

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Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

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#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

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#9 Seedream 4.5 ranks higher

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#25 FLUX.2 [kle... ranks higher

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#32 Qwen Image ... ranks lower

Ranked using Bald man challenge Golden Hour Stroll Man and Car in California Outfit Transfer Challenge Over-the-top cartoon carica... Pose & Character Mashup +1 more

Photorealism

Image Editing

Ranked #24 of 27 models · 1.4% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Before After

Bald man challenge

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Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

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#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

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#7 Seedream 5.... ranks higher

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#21 Vidu Q2 ranks higher

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#27 FLUX.2 [dev] ranks lower

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#7 Seedream 5.... ranks higher

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#21 Vidu Q2 ranks higher

Before After

#27 FLUX.2 [dev] ranks lower

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

Lighting, Shadows & Materials

Image Editing

Ranked #26 of 29 models · 1.4% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Before After

Bald man challenge

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Golden Hour Stroll

Same prompt, other models

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

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#22 Wan 2.7 Pro ranks higher

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#29 FLUX.2 [dev] ranks lower

Before After

#1 Nano Banana... ranks higher

Before After

#22 Wan 2.7 Pro ranks higher

Before After

#29 FLUX.2 [dev] ranks lower

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

Face & Identity

Image Editing

Ranked #16 of 17 models · 0.0% win rate Leaderboard

Z-Image Turbo

Before After

Bald man challenge

Same prompt, other models

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#1 Nano Banana 2 ranks higher

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#5 GPT Image 1.5 ranks higher

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#13 Wan 2.6 ranks higher

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#17 FLUX.2 [dev] ranks lower

Ranked using Bald man challenge Over-the-top cartoon carica...

Backgrounds & Scenes

Image Editing

Ranked #16 of 16 models · 3.0% win rate Leaderboard

#16

of 16 models · 3.0% wins

#1 is Nano Banana Pro

Ranked using Man and Car in California