Model reference · open weights
Z-Image is an open-weight image model from drbaph. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | drbaph |
|---|---|
| Type | Image models |
| Task | Text→image |
| Runs with | diffusers |
| Released | 2025-11-27 |
| Popularity | 9k downloads / month |
| Licence | Open weights |
About
This is a quantization of Comfy-Org/z_image_turbo to FP8_E5M2 and FP8_E4M3FN
| Precision | Image 1 | Image 2 |
|---|---|---|
| bf16 | ||
| fp8_e4m3fn |
Welcome to the official repository for the Z-Image（造相）project!
Z-Image is a powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters. It is currently has three variants:
🚀 Z-Image-Turbo – A distilled version of Z-Image that matches or exceeds leading competitors with only 8 NFEs (Number of Function Evaluations). It offers ⚡️sub-second inference latency⚡️ on enterprise-grade H800 GPUs and fits comfortably within 16G VRAM consumer devices. It excels in photorealistic image generation, bilingual text rendering (English & Chinese), and robust instruction adherence.
🧱 Z-Image-Base – The non-distilled foundation model. By releasing this checkpoint, we aim to unlock the full potential for community-driven fine-tuning and custom development.
✍️ Z-Image-Edit – A variant fine-tuned on Z-Image specifically for image editing tasks. It supports creative image-to-image generation with impressive instruction-following capabilities, allowing for precise edits based on natural language prompts.
| Model | Hugging Face | ModelScope |
|---|---|---|
| Z-Image-Turbo | ||
| Z-Image-Base | To be released | To be released |
| Z-Image-Edit | To be released | To be released |
From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.
How it works
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys drbaph-z-image for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (drbaph-z-image below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/images/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"drbaph-z-image","prompt":"a red bicycle","size":"1024x1024"}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.