Z-Image-Turbo
Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights
The catch: Distilled for speed: the card rates its output diversity as low and lists no fine-tuning support, and guidance must stay at 0.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 6B text-to-image model distilled to 8 steps; sub-second on H800-class GPUs and fits 16GB consumer GPUs per the card. Apache 2.0. From Alibaba's Tongyi-MAI lab. |
| Modality | image |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Apache-2.0 |
| Context window | – |
| Model id | Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 8 Oct 2026 |
How to use Z-Image-Turbo
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Quickstart
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers # then ZImagePipeline.from_pretrained("Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo") with num_inference_steps=9, guidance_scale=0.0, as in the model cardPaste into Claude Code
I want to run the open-weight model "Z-Image-Turbo" (Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Distilled for speed: the card rates its output diversity as low and lists no fine-tuning support, and guidance must stay at 0.
- Apache-2.0 (licence tag on the HF repo): use, modify, distribute and sell, including commercially; keep the licence and notices when you redistribute.
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Z-Image-Turbo free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Apache-2.0. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Z-Image-Turbo commercially?
Yes, under Apache-2.0. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Z-Image-Turbo?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.
Source: huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo, checked 8 Oct 2026.