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Z Image Turbo

Z Image Turbo is Zhipu AI's fast text-to-image model in the GLM ecosystem, tuned for low-latency generation at production scale. It targets creative pipelines that need speed without giving up reasonable quality, with strong bilingual Chinese-English prompt understanding. Use it for high-volume image generation, prototyping, and applications where turnaround time is critical.

Pricing

Input

$0.0140 / image

Output

Pay only for what you use. No subscriptions, no minimums.

Specs

Context
Max output
Latency
Fast
Category
Image
Arabic
Partial

Constraints & limits

Size

Each dim 256–1536 px

Output

Presigned URLs (~24h TTL)

The gateway auto-clamps requests to the model's limits where possible.

Quick start

This sample hits the image generation endpoint. Change base_url and your key, then run it.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="tl-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    base_url="https://api.thalam.ai/v1",
)

response = client.images.generate(
    model="zhipu/z-image-turbo",
    prompt="A futuristic city skyline at sunset.",
    size="1024x1024",
    n=1,
)

print(response.data[0].url)

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