Z-Image
Alibaba (Tongyi-MAI)
Z-Image is an image generation model line from Alibaba (Tongyi-MAI). The latest release is Z-Image (27 Jan 2026). This page tracks all 2 Z-Image releases since 26 Nov 2025, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →
Z-Image
Foundation model behind Turbo; higher quality and diversity than Turbo; supports negative prompting and wide style range; suitable for fine-tuning and downstream development
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Self-host, Community API
- Parameters
- 6B
- Architecture
- Scalable Single-Stream DiT (S3-DiT)
- Inference Steps
- 50
License confirmed Apache 2.0 (github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image/blob/main/LICENSE). Date: README news entry is Jan 27 - using Jan 27.
Z-Image-Turbo
Distilled from Z-Image base via Decoupled-DMD + DMDR (RL); sub-second inference on H800; #1 open-source on Artificial Analysis T2I leaderboard at launch; strong bilingual (EN/ZH) text rendering
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Self-host, Community API
- Parameters
- 6B
- Architecture
- Scalable Single-Stream DiT (S3-DiT)
- Inference Steps
- 8
License confirmed Apache 2.0 (github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image/blob/main/LICENSE). Date: README news entry is Nov 26 - using Nov 26.
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