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Z-Image Turbo API Cost

A 1K Z-Image Turbo image costs $0.005, against $0.015 at the official price. What you spend depends on image size, how many images you make and how many you keep — here is what real work costs, what a monthly budget buys and how to spend less.

1K image
$0.005
official $0.015
1,000 images
$4.72
1K
1,000 images / month
$4.72
1K
Below official
up to 69%
failed runs: $0
Create with Z-Image TurboGet API keyAPI docs

Try it

Try Z-Image Turbo — the price is on the button

Runs on your balance at the price on the button; failed runs are refunded. Results are saved to your account.

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Calculator

Calculate your Z-Image Turbo cost

Pick the size, your monthly volume and how many tries you keep. Every figure is a live quote.

Size
Tries per keeper

Per month · 100 generations

0.48

$1.50 at the official price

Per image
0.005
Per kept image
0.005
Saved per month
$1.03
Saved per year
$12.34

Live prices · failed generations are free

Cost drivers

What drives the Z-Image Turbo API cost

2 things set your bill. Prices are live; the full tier list is on the Z-Image Turbo API pricing page.

Image size

The biggest lever. An image costs 2.3× as much at 2K as at 1K.

1K
$0.005
1.0×
2K
$0.011
2.3×

Takes you keep

Every successful image is billed, including takes you discard. Keeping one in three makes each kept 1K image cost $0.015 instead of $0.005. Failed generations are refunded.

Real work

What images cost with Z-Image Turbo

Typical jobs priced end to end at today's per-image prices.

Z-Image Turbo cost of common deliverables
DeliverableGenerationsTierOfficialCheaperGen
Concept exploration20 images1K$0.30$0.095
With a monthly plan: Pro $0.089Max $0.083
Product photo set12 images1K$0.18$0.057
With a monthly plan: Pro $0.054Max $0.05
Ad creative variations50 images1K$0.75$0.24
With a monthly plan: Pro $0.23Max $0.21
Blog illustrations for a month100 images1K$1.50$0.48
With a monthly plan: Pro $0.45Max $0.42
Catalog of 1,000 products × 3 shots3,000 images1K$45.00$14.16
With a monthly plan: Pro $13.27Max $12.37
Hero images4 images2K$0.06$0.043
With a monthly plan: Pro $0.041Max $0.039

Monthly plans lower prices on most models (shown under each price); you can still pay as you go. Pro $499/month · Max $4,999/month.

Budgets

What a Z-Image Turbo budget buys

Images per budget at each size.

Z-Image Turbo: output per budget
Size$10$50$100$500$1,000
1K
$0.005 per image
2,11910,59521,190105,954211,909
2K
$0.011 per image
9334,6669,33246,66393,327

Yearly difference

Z-Image Turbo cost vs the official price

The same monthly volume at 1K, priced here and at the official price (verified October 18, 2026).

1,000 images / month

$4.72

$15.00 official

$123.37 less a year

10,000 images / month

$47.19

$150.00 official

$1,234 less a year

100,000 images / month

$471.90

$1,500 official

$12,337 less a year

Compare

A 1K image on other models

The same request on Z-Image models and the cheapest similar models, at each model's lowest price for that size.

Cost of the same request on Z-Image Turbo and other models
ModelTierCostvs. Z-Image Turbo
FLUX.2 [klein] 4B
Black Forest Labs
1K$0.001−80%
FLUX 3 Image Klein
Black Forest Labs
1K$0.002−60%
Z-Image Turbo
Alibaba
1K$0.005—
GPT Image 2.5
OpenAI
1K · low$0.007+28%
GPT Image 2.5 Flare
OpenAI
1K · low$0.007+28%

Price is one input; quality, speed and features differ. Each model's cost page has its own breakdown.

Cost control

Keep Z-Image Turbo spend predictable

The same rules in the API, the Playground and the Studio. Details in the billing docs.

  • Price it first. POST /v1/quote/alibaba/z-image-turbo/text-to-image returns the exact price of any request, free.
  • Cap a request. Send max_cost_usd and a request priced above it is refused without charge.
  • Prepaid only. You can't spend more than your balance; auto top-up is optional and you set its amount.
  • Failed = free. Failed generations, and jobs you cancel while queued, are refunded in full.
  • Every charge itemized. Each generation returns its exact cost, and the dashboard lists every charge.

FAQ

Z-Image Turbo API cost questions

A 1K image costs $0.005 (official $0.015). Prices run from $0.0048 to $0.0108 per image depending on size, with no subscription needed and no minimum spend.

It depends only on usage. 1,000 images a month cost $4.72; 10,000 images a month cost $47.19; 100,000 images a month cost $471.90 (at 1K). At the middle volume that is $1,234 a year less than at the official price.

Image size. The quote endpoint (POST /v1/quote/{endpoint}) prices any request for free before you run it. Rates by size: price per image.

You pay for every successful generation, including takes you decide not to use. Failed generations, and jobs you cancel while they are queued, are refunded in full automatically. To spend less per try, see Cheapest Z-Image Turbo.

Yes. Credits are prepaid, so you can't spend more than your balance. Pass max_cost_usd with a request and it is refused, without charge, if its price would be higher. Auto top-up is optional.

Our prices are live; official prices were verified October 18, 2026. Z-Image Turbo is Alibaba's open-weights model. CheaperGen provides API access to the open weights, run on GPU inference for open-source models, and does not own the model. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.