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Z-Image Turbo comes from the Alibaba Tongyi Laboratory. It’s an open-source, lightweight 6B-parameter model that punches way above its weight class. It’s fast, smart, and handles text like a pro.

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Why use it?

  • Instruction Adherence: It actually listens to what you say. Even the weird stuff.
  • Multilingual Text: Great at rendering both English and Chinese text inside images.
  • Efficient: High-quality results with very low latency.

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Details

  • Developer: Alibaba Tongyi/MAI
  • Parameters: 6B
  • Strengths: Text rendering, complex prompt following, efficiency.
  • Estimated Cost: ~0.0015−0.0015 - 0.005 per Megapixel.
  • Note: Very competitive pricing for a model of this intelligence.
  • Model License: Apache 2.0
  • Generated Images: Apache 2.0. Do whatever you want with them!
If you need a model that can finally spell “Happy Birthday” correctly without adding extra ‘y’s, this is a solid choice.