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Text-to-Image

Z-Image-Turbo API and Z-Anime

Z-Image-Turbo renders photoreal scenes and readable short text in 8 steps. Z-Anime does anime styles on the same endpoint. deAPI runs both as INT8 builds.

  • $0.0063 per 768 × 768 image
  • Up to 2048 px per side
  • Z-Anime at the same price

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Z-Image-Turbo Text-to-Image
Night street food stall in Bangkok generated with Z-Image-Turbo on deAPI

PromptNight street food stall in Bangkok, neon signs in Thai, steam rising from woks, blurred passers-by, cinematic photo, wet asphalt reflections

1024 × 768 · 8 steps · seed 20261020 Cost on deAPI: $0.0077 (price as of October 2026)

Z-Image-Turbo examples

Made on deAPI with the models you call through the API. Tips on writing prompts are in our Z-Image-Turbo article.

Wooden cafe sign reading OPEN DAILY 8-18 generated with Z-Image-Turbo
Text in the image Quoted text came out readable. Z-Image-Turbo, 768 × 768, $0.0063.
Anime girl on a rooftop at sunset generated with Z-Anime
Z-Anime Anime style from the same API. 768 × 768, $0.0063.

Z-Image-Turbo API pricing

You pay per image, by size and steps. Z-Anime costs the same as Z-Image-Turbo.

Z-Image-Turbo, 768 × 768 $0.0063 ≈ 790
Z-Image-Turbo, 1024 × 768 $0.0077 ≈ 646
Z-Anime, 768 × 768 $0.0063 ≈ 790

What the free account includes

  • $5 of credits, no credit card
  • Up to 100 image requests a day until your first top-up
  • Credits valid for 90 days from sign-up
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Prices from the deAPI price API, October 2026, in USD, 8 steps.

Z-Image-Turbo vs Z-Anime vs FLUX.2 Klein

Input Text prompt Text prompt Text prompt, plus up to 3 reference images
Negative prompt Accepted, little effect Accepted, little effect Not supported
Size 128–2048 px 128–2048 px 256–1536 px
Steps 1–50 (default 8) 4–16 (default 8) Fixed at 4
Price $0.0063 at 768² $0.0063 at 768² $0.0037 at 1024²

Limits from GET /api/v2/models, prices from the price API, October 2026. Negative prompt effect per the model cards on Hugging Face.

Z-Image-Turbo API example

Switch between Z-Image-Turbo and Z-Anime with the model field. Replace YOUR_API_KEY with a key from your dashboard.

Model IDs
ZImageTurbo_INT8, ZAnimeDistill_8Step_INT8
Endpoint
POST /api/v2/images/generations
Size
128–2048 px per side, multiple of 16
Steps
Z-Image-Turbo 1–50, Z-Anime 4–16 (both default 8)
Free account limits
3 requests per minute, 100 per day
curl -X POST 'https://api.deapi.ai/api/v2/images/generations' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "model": "ZImageTurbo_INT8",
    "prompt": "A wooden cafe sign that reads \"OPEN DAILY 8-18\" in white chalk letters, brick wall, morning sun",
    "width": 768,
    "height": 768,
    "steps": 8,
    "seed": 20261020
  }'
import time, requests

API = "https://api.deapi.ai/api/v2"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY", "Accept": "application/json"}

job = requests.post(f"{API}/images/generations", headers=HEADERS, json={
    "model": "ZAnimeDistill_8Step_INT8",   # or "ZImageTurbo_INT8"
    "prompt": "Anime girl with headphones sitting on a rooftop at sunset, city skyline",
    "width": 768, "height": 768, "steps": 8, "seed": 20261020,
}).json()["data"]

while True:
    status = requests.get(f"{API}/jobs/{job['request_id']}", headers=HEADERS).json()["data"]
    if status["status"] in ("done", "error"):
        break
    time.sleep(2)

print(status.get("result_url"))

What is Z-Image-Turbo?

Z-Image-Turbo is a distilled 6B text-to-image model from Alibaba's Tongyi-MAI team, released under Apache 2.0. It is built for 8 steps and does photoreal images and English and Chinese text inside the image. Z-Anime is a community anime fine-tune of Z-Image Base by SeeSee21, also Apache 2.0; deAPI runs its 8-step distilled version. Both run as INT8 builds on the same endpoint.

  1. Create a free account

    Sign up and get $5 of credits. No credit card.

  2. Write the prompt

    Describe subject, scene, light and style, and put any in-image text in quotes. Test it in the Playground first, no code needed.

  3. Call the API

    POST to /images/generations and read the image URL from the job.

Z-Image-Turbo FAQ

The 8-bit quantized build of Z-Image-Turbo that deAPI runs. Its model ID is ZImageTurbo_INT8.
Start with the default of 8, the step count Z-Image-Turbo was distilled for. The API accepts 1–50 for Z-Image-Turbo and 4–16 for Z-Anime. Price depends on steps, so fewer steps cost less.
The API accepts negative_prompt for both models, but expect little effect. The Z-Image-Turbo model card runs it with guidance set to 0, and the Z-Anime card says negative prompts have limited effect on the 8-step version. Describe what you want in the main prompt instead.
An anime fine-tune of Z-Image Base, made by SeeSee21 and released under Apache 2.0. deAPI runs the 8-step distilled version as ZAnimeDistill_8Step_INT8, at the same price as Z-Image-Turbo.
$0.0063 per 768 × 768 image and $0.0077 at 1024 × 768 (October 2026).
Yes. New accounts get $5 of credits with no credit card, about 790 images at 768 × 768, with up to 100 images a day on a free account.
Both models are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use. Under the deAPI Terms of Service you are responsible for having the rights your use needs, and deAPI does not guarantee outputs are free of third-party rights.

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