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Z-Image-Turbo
Description
Z-Image-Turbo is an open image generation model from Alibaba's Tongyi Lab. It creates images from a text description. The model has 6 billion parameters and produces a picture in 8 steps. The author highlights photorealistic results, accurate text rendering inside images in English and Chinese, and good instruction following. Weights are published on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license, which allows commercial use. The author provides an official demo on Hugging Face.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Apache 2.0 license, commercial use allowed
- Runs on consumer GPUs: fits in 16 GB VRAM per the author
- Fast: 8 steps per image
- Renders text inside images in English and Chinese
Cons
- Text-to-image only: no image editing in this release
Key facts
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Hardware requirements
- Fits in 16 GB VRAM (per the author)
- Developer
- Tongyi Lab (Alibaba)
- Interface languages
- English
- Checked on
- Oct 16, 2026
Editorial score
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