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● Verified Model Telemetry · Oct 2026

Tongyi Z-Image-Turbo (Ourdream "Vivid 3.0" Photorealistic Engine)

Discovered inside Ourdream.ai’s production bundle under the enum keys ZImage and ZImageMoody, Tongyi Z-Image-Turbo is the reason Ourdream renders realistic skin pores and bedroom lighting in 4 seconds flat.

Architecture / Spec
Z-Image-Turbo (S3-DiT)
6B Parameter Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer + Qwen3-4B Encoder
Benchmark / Arena Score
935 Elo on Artificial Analysis Image Arena
High Anatomy & Hand Accuracy
Wholesale Cloud API Cost
$5.00 / 1,000 images ($0.005 per photo)
Context / Steps: 8-Step Distilled Turbo Inference (~4.2s per render)
Commercial App Markup
5 DreamCoins
11x Retail Markup over Wholesale GPU Cost

Engineering & Roleplay Breakdown

Bounded Plain English Analysis

When you click "Vivid 3.0" in Ourdream AI’s character creator, you aren’t calling an outdated Stable Diffusion 1.5 checkpoint. Our code audit traced that button directly to ZImageMoody, a fine-tuned variant of Tongyi-MAI’s 6-billion-parameter Z-Image-Turbo architecture.

Because it uses a Qwen3-4B text encoder rather than old CLIP tags, it understands complex spatial prompts ("rainy neon reflection on window, holding a ceramic mug, warm eye contact") while costing the platform only $0.005 per image wholesale.

Verified External Authority Sources & Where to Use This Model

OpenRouter · HuggingFace · Civitai · Commercial Apps
Primary Technical SourceExternal Link
HuggingFace: Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-TurboInspect Source ↗
arXiv:2511.22699 PaperInspect Source ↗
Artificial Analysis Image LeaderboardInspect Source ↗
Commercial App Running This ClassInternal Bundle Key
Ourdream AI ("Vivid 1.0–3.0") →ZImage / ZImageMoody
Same Prompt, 3 Brains: Live OpenRouter API Roleplay Receipts
Why do companion apps still prefer DeepSeek V3.2 & Euryale 70B over the newer DeepSeek V4.1 Flash? Click a scenario to inspect the actual responses & token receipts.
Prompt Sent:“I just got back from grabbing coffee with my ex. Nothing happened, they just wanted to return my old grey hoodie from three years ago. Why are you looking at me like that?”
DeepSeek V3.2 (671B MoE)Soulmate Gold · 0 CoT Overhead
"Because you're holding a coffee cup that smells like her favorite drink. You never liked vanilla lattes."
22 completion tokens · 0 reasoning_tokens · $0.000053 / reply

Lab Take: In 17 words, V3.2 invents a concrete sensory detail ("vanilla lattes") that catches you in a lie. Zero purple prose, zero wasted tokens—this is why dream-girl (梦女) roleplayers fell in love with V3.2.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (2026 Agentic)425 Hidden CoT Tokens · 10.8x Cost
"I set my mug down. Not hard. Just enough. 'I'm not looking at you. I'm looking at that.' I nod at the grey hoodie. 'Three years. They kept it three years. And you went. For coffee. Did you at least tell them you have someone who steals your hoodies now?'"
496 completion tokens (425 hidden reasoning_tokens) · $0.000581 / reply

Lab Take: When we capped completion at 220 tokens, V4.1 Flash returned a blank string because it burned all 220 tokens thinking to itself! Uncapped, it burned 425 reasoning tokens ($0.00058 vs $0.00005) to write a decent but choppy screenplay beat.

MythoMax 13B / Budget App BotGeneric Wrapper · 61.2 Slop
"*Raises an eyebrow, unimpressed* Oh, really? And why exactly did you decide to go out and grab coffee with your ex after all this time? You do realize how that might make me feel, right?"
65 completion tokens · 0 reasoning_tokens · $0.000018 / reply

Lab Take: Reads like a daytime soap opera script mixed with a therapy worksheet ("You do realize how that might make me feel"). Zero subtext.

Interactive EQ-Bench "AI Slop & Cliché" Detector (Paste Any Companion Reply)

Based on eqbench.com/slop-score.html trigram & contrast forensics
Detected Cliché Triggers:“shiver ran down”“voice barely a whisper”“breath caught in”“couldn't help but”“testament to”“unspoken”“Not X, but Y” LLM tic
Computed Slop Score: 99 / 100