Grok Imagine
xAI
Grok Imagine is an image & video generation model line from xAI. The latest release is Grok Imagine Quality Mode (6 May 2026). This page tracks all 3 Grok Imagine releases since 9 Dec 2024, with specs, licensing, and how to access each one. Official site →
Grok Imagine Quality Mode
Higher realism tier for the Grok Imagine API; stronger text rendering; tighter prompt following; improved world understanding; enterprise-focused (product shots, UGC-style content, brand assets)
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API
- Model ID
- grok-imagine-image-quality
Enterprise API tier launch. Pairs with grok-imagine-video for combined image+video workflows.
Grok Imagine API
Unified image + video generation, editing, and restyle in one API; virtual try-on; product placement; image and video editing from text prompts; topped Artificial Analysis T2V leaderboard at launch
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Official API, Consumer app
- Model Id Video
- grok-imagine-video
- Resolution Image
- 2K (up to 10 images/request)
- Max Duration Video
- 15s
Described on launch as 'state-of-the-art video generation, video editing, and image creation, all in one API'. xAI joined SpaceX Feb 2, 2026.
Grok Aurora (Image Generation)
First xAI image generation; codename Aurora; native multimodal input (image editing from input images); available on X platform; strong photorealism and text following
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Availability
- Consumer app
- Architecture
- Autoregressive Mixture-of-Experts (trained on interleaved text and image data)
Released on X platform December 9, 2024. Superseded by Grok Imagine API (Jan 2026).
See Grok Imagine in context on the image model timeline, or browse all model families.