A text description of the image you want to generate
0/1000Aspect ratio for the generated image. Select 'auto' to match the first input image ratio (requires input image).
A configurable parameter. Defaults to true in the Playground.
Explore different use cases and parameter configurations
README
Complete guide to using z-image
Affordable Z-Image-Turbo API by Tongyi-MAI
Affordable Z-Image API powered by Tongyi-MAI, offering fast Turbo-level generation and photorealistic output. Run Z-Image online on Kie AI with no local setup and get high-quality results instantly.
Affordable Z-Image Turbo API for Text-to-Image Generation
Z-Image-Turbo Text-to-Image API on Kie AI
Z-Image-Turbo api delivers high-quality, photorealistic images with extremely low latency. It completes generation in just a few sampling steps while preserving detail, clean lighting, and strong composition. Ideal for rapid creative iteration and real-time workflows.
Z-Image Model Performance in Alibaba AI Arena
Benchmark Results of the Z-Image Model
Elo-based human preference evaluations from Alibaba AI Arena show that Z-Image performs competitively against leading image models. It reaches state-of-the-art results among open-source systems, demonstrating strong quality, stability, and semantic accuracy across diverse tasks.
Key Features of Z Image API on Kie AI
Photorealistic Quality with Z-Image-Turbo Text-to-Image
Z image api generates photorealistic visuals with refined lighting, clean textures, and balanced composition. Z-Image model achieves high fidelity at a compact 6B scale, matching outputs from significantly larger systems while staying efficient and consistent.
Ultra-Fast Inference with Z-Image-Turbo API
Z-image-turbo api delivers rapid generation with minimal sampling steps, enabling near-instant image creation. It maintains clarity, structure, and detail even at high speed, making real-time creative workflows possible without compromising output quality.
Accurate Bilingual Text Rendering via Z Image API
Z image api produces sharp and stable English and Chinese text across posters, graphics, and small-font layouts. It handles alignment, spacing, and typographic structure with precision, supporting high-quality bilingual visual design across diverse scenes.
Efficient 6B Architecture in ZImage API
Zimage api uses a 6B single-stream diffusion transformer that processes text, embeddings, and noisy latents in one unified sequence. This streamlined design delivers strong generation performance with reduced complexity and notable improvements in efficiency.
Advanced World Knowledge and Semantic Reasoning
Z-Image combines broad world knowledge with strong semantic reasoning, enabling accurate generation of real-world subjects and culturally grounded concepts. Its enhanced prompt understanding helps handle logical tasks and interpret complex instructions with clarity.
How to Run Z Image API with Kie AI Online Playground
Step 1 — Explore the Z-Image Online Playground on Kie AI
Step 2 — Generate Images Using Z Image API
Step 3 — Integrate the Z-Image API into Your Workflow
What You Can Create with Z-Image API
Product Visuals and Branding Design with Z-Image API
Z-image api generates clean, photorealistic product shots and lifestyle scenes, making it suitable for e-commerce displays, ad creatives, packaging previews, and brand storytelling. Its high fidelity ensures objects, textures, and lighting remain consistent across variations.
Marketing Graphics and Posters Using Z-Image AI API
Z-image ai api delivers accurate English and Chinese text rendering, fitting scenarios that require sharp typography and clear layout. It works well for posters, banners, social media visuals, event graphics, and promotional materials where bilingual clarity is essential.
Educational and Cultural Content Built with Z-Image Model
Z-image model handles cultural elements, landmarks, and structured concepts, making it ideal for educational visuals, travel content, museum-style illustrations, and knowledge-driven scenes. It maintains contextual accuracy even with abstract or concept-heavy prompts.
Fast Photorealistic Visuals for Product Mockups
Z-Image-Turbo enables quick text-to-image generation with strong photorealistic quality, making it ideal for creating product mockups, concept visuals, or early-stage design ideas. With the Z Image API on Kie AI, teams can test variations instantly without preparing local hardware or complex workflows.
Why Choose Kie AI for Z Image API
Text to PNG Images in Five Aspect Ratios
Send model z-image to POST /api/v1/jobs/createTask with a prompt of up to 1,000 characters and aspect_ratio 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9 or 9:16. Images are returned as PNG. Pricing is shown in the pricing card above.
80 Free Credits and a Browser Playground
New Kie.ai users receive 80 free credits to test Z-Image in the playground on this page before calling the API.
Callback Delivery with Webhook Verification
Pass a callBackUrl to have task status and image URLs posted to you when generation completes, and verify the request with the Kie.ai webhook signature guide. You can also poll the task on the Get Task Details endpoint.