Alibaba/z-image

z-image

Free to try Z Image API for Alibaba text-to-image generation, polished visual concepts, product images, and scalable creative production workflows.

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Z Image Pricing

Parameters	Price	Original Price	Discount

Base

$0.0140 per image

Standard

Examples

README

Fast & Affordable Z Image API (Alibaba Image Generation)

Z Image API on Flaq AI provides affordable Alibaba image generation for developers and creative teams building visual content, product imagery, social assets, and design automation. This Z Image API integration turns natural-language prompts into polished images through a stable managed route. It is designed for teams that need practical text-to-image generation for high-volume creative production without managing model infrastructure.

Key Features of Z Image API

Text-to-Image Generation: Create images from natural-language prompts for marketing, product design, editorial content, and creative workflows.
Affordable API Integration: Use Z Image for cost-effective visual generation through a stable Flaq AI route.
Flexible Style Control: Guide photorealistic, illustrative, cinematic, commercial, and social-ready visual styles through prompt direction.
Prompt-Based Composition: Describe subjects, background, lighting, camera angle, mood, and visual details for controlled creative output.
Production-Ready Visual Workflows: Generate assets for campaigns, thumbnails, ecommerce, blogs, and internal creative tooling.
Developer-Friendly Access: Add Alibaba image generation to apps, automation systems, and backend services without custom model hosting.

How to Use Z Image API for Image Generation on Flaq AI

Input: Natural-language prompts with subject, style, composition, lighting, and output guidance.
Output: Generated images delivered through Z Image API integration for download, display, or downstream creative workflows.
Aspect Ratios: Supports flexible image layouts suitable for social media, web, product, and marketing use cases.
Capabilities: Text-to-image generation, style exploration, product visuals, campaign assets, social graphics, and scalable creative automation through Z Image API access.

Best Use Cases for Z Image API Integration

Marketing Visuals: Generate ad concepts, campaign graphics, thumbnails, and social media assets with fast creative iteration.
Product & E-commerce Imagery: Create lifestyle scenes, promotional visuals, and product presentation concepts for online stores.
Editorial & Blog Content: Produce header images, article visuals, and supporting graphics for content teams.
Design Prototyping: Explore visual directions, moodboards, compositions, and brand concepts before final production.
Creative Automation: Build tools that generate personalized images, bulk variants, and prompt-driven visual assets at scale.

Note Please ensure prompts comply with Alibaba and Flaq AI safety requirements. If an error occurs, revise the prompt, remove restricted content, and try again.

Z Image vs Competitors: Comparative Analysis

Z Image vs. Qwen Image 2
Qwen Image 2 is a strong Alibaba image model with broad prompt-following capability. Z Image provides another affordable Alibaba image generation route for production creative workflows.
Z Image vs. GPT Image
GPT Image models offer broad creative generation and editing. Z Image focuses on cost-effective text-to-image workflows through Flaq AI's managed API access.
Z Image vs. Nano Banana
Nano Banana provides Gemini-powered image generation and editing workflows. Z Image gives teams an Alibaba-powered alternative for scalable visual creation.
Z Image vs. Seedream
Seedream is strong for commercial and stylized visuals. Z Image is useful for affordable prompt-based image generation across marketing, ecommerce, and social content.
Z Image vs. Stable Diffusion XL
Stable Diffusion XL offers open-source customization with infrastructure overhead. Z Image API provides managed access for teams that want simpler integration and stable production delivery.

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API Examples

JavaScriptPythoncURL

Submit Example

// Step 1: Submit generation request
const response = await fetch('https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/task', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    model_name: 'z-image',
    prompt: 'A cinematic portrait of a traveler standing on a cliff at golden hour',
    width: 16,
    height: 9,
    seed: 0
  })
});

const { data } = await response.json();
const taskId = data.task_id;

Polling Example

// Step 2: Poll for results
const taskId = data.task_id;

const pollResult = async (taskId) => {
  const res = await fetch(`https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/${taskId}`, {
    headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' }
  });
  return res.json();
};

while (true) {
  const pollResultData = await pollResult(taskId);
  const status = pollResultData.data.task_status;

  if (status === 'succeed') {
    console.log(pollResultData.data.task_result.images[0].url);
    break;
  }

  if (status === 'failed') {
    console.error(pollResultData.data.task_status_msg);
    break;
  }

  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 10000));
}

Submit Example

# Step 1: Submit generation request
import requests

response = requests.post(
    'https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/task',
    headers={
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
    },
    json={
        'model_name': 'z-image',
        'prompt': 'A cinematic portrait of a traveler standing on a cliff at golden hour',
        'width': 16,
        'height': 9,
        'seed': 0
    }
)

result = response.json()
task_id = result['data']['task_id']

Polling Example

# Step 2: Poll for results
task_id = response.json()['data']['task_id']
poll_url = f"https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/{task_id}"

while True:
    poll_result = requests.get(poll_url, headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'}).json()
    status = poll_result['data']['task_status']
    if status == 'succeed':
        print(poll_result['data']['task_result']['images'][0]['url'])
        break
    if status == 'failed':
        print(poll_result['data']['task_status_msg'])
        break
    time.sleep(10)

Submit Example

# Step 1: Submit generation request
curl -X POST https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/task \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model_name": "z-image",
    "prompt": "A cinematic portrait of a traveler standing on a cliff at golden hour",
    "width": 16,
    "height": 9,
    "seed": 0
  }'

Polling Example

# Step 2: Poll for results
# Replace {task_id} with the task_id returned from the submit response
curl -X GET "https://api.flaq.ai/api/v1/image/{task_id}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Z Image Pricing

Examples

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README

Fast & Affordable Z Image API (Alibaba Image Generation)

Key Features of Z Image API

How to Use Z Image API for Image Generation on Flaq AI

Best Use Cases for Z Image API Integration

Z Image vs Competitors: Comparative Analysis

Use the Z Image Model Directly in Powerful AI Tools

Text to Image

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API Examples

Submit Example

Polling Example

Submit Example

Polling Example

Submit Example

Polling Example

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