Z-Image TurboAI image generator
A fast, 6B open-weight image model from Alibaba's Tongyi lab. On Leap, it sits beside 174 other models in one studio.
- Text to image
- 5 aspect ratios
- No subscription
- Every top model, one account
- Pay per run, priced before it starts
AI image generator
Z-Image Turbo at a glance
Z-Image Turbo is an image model from Alibaba. It makes images from words.
- Made by
- Alibaba
- Makes
- Images
- Starts from
- Words
- Shapes
- 1:1, 3:4, 9:16, 4:3, 16:9
- Per run
- Up to 4 images
- Prompt
- Up to 4,000 characters
- Price per run
- $0.008
- Run time
- About 2 seconds
- Updated
- October 5, 2026
- 01Describe what you want to see
- 02See the exact price, then press go
- 03Keep it in your library, or take it further
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Questions
Z-Image Turbo, answered
- What is Z-Image Turbo?
- Z-Image Turbo is an image model from Alibaba. A fast, 6B open-weight image model from Alibaba's Tongyi lab. It is new on Leap and in preview: it works, and it may still change. On Leap it runs in one studio beside every other top model, with one account.
- What resolution and sizes does it make?
- 1:1, 3:4, 9:16, 4:3 or 16:9.
- How much does a run cost?
- An image costs $0.008. You see the exact price before you press go, and a run that fails costs nothing.
- Is Z-Image Turbo free to try?
- No. There is no free credit: you add credit from $5, and your first top-up has no card fee. The cheapest run is $0.008 (an image), so $5 covers 625 of those. You pay per run, in dollars, with no subscription.
- Can I use what I make commercially?
- Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.
- Is there an API?
- Yes. Leap's REST API runs it as alibaba/z-image-turbo, at the same price per run as the studio, and agents can call it through Leap's MCP server. The request is at the bottom of this page.
- Do I need an Alibaba account?
- No. Leap sends your request to Alibaba's model and gives you what it makes. One Leap account runs Z-Image Turbo and every other model, in the studio, through the API and from your agents.
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Every run shows its price before it starts, and one that fails costs nothing.
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- Model ID
- alibaba/z-image-turbo
- Makes
- Image
- Pricing
- Per run, quoted first: POST /v1/quotes
Inputs
What the model takes. Leave out anything with a default.
Promptprompt
Text, up to 4,000 characters, required
Aspect ratioaspect_ratio
1:1, 3:4, 9:16, 4:3, 16:9. Default: 4:3
Imagesn
1 to 4. Default: 1
Number of Inference Stepssettings.num_inference_steps
1 to 8. Default: 8The number of inference steps to perform.
Accelerationsettings.acceleration
None, Regular, High. Default: RegularThe acceleration level to use.
Enable Prompt Expansionsettings.enable_prompt_expansion
On or off. Default: offWhether to enable prompt expansion.
Seedseed
0 to 4294967295The same seed and input give the same image.
The request
The same envelope for every model; only the model and its input change. With prefer: wait=60 the answer holds the result when the run finishes within a minute; a longer one is read again by its ID. Agents can call it through the MCP server at app.tryleap.ai/api/mcp.
curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations \ -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY" \ -H "content-type: application/json" \ -H "prefer: wait=60" \ -d '{ "model": "alibaba/z-image-turbo", "input": { "prompt": "A paper boat drifting down a rainy street at dusk" } }' # Video often outlasts the wait and answers "queued" or "running".# Put its "id" in GENERATION_ID and read it again until it is done:# curl https://api.tryleap.ai/v1/generations/$GENERATION_ID -H "x-api-key: $LEAP_API_KEY"