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grok-imagine-image-quality

xAI · Grok Imagine

xAI's Grok Imagine Quality Mode image model for higher-realism, stronger text rendering, and brand-controlled visuals.

Part of Grok Imagine family · Other versions: grok-imagine-image , grok-imagine-image-1212 , grok-imagine-video-1212 , grok-imagine-video
Type
image
Context
N/A
Max Output
N/A
Status
current
API Access
Yes
License
proprietary
image-generation image-editing quality-mode xai api grok-imagine creative
Released May 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026

Overview

Freshness note: Model capabilities, limits, and pricing can change quickly. This profile is a point-in-time snapshot last verified on May 8, 2026.

grok-imagine-image-quality is xAI’s higher-quality Grok Imagine image model. xAI launched Quality Mode for enterprise developers and teams on May 6, 2026, positioning it around stronger realism, better text rendering, tighter prompt following, and more consistent brand-control workflows.

Use this model when image quality matters more than the lowest possible per-image cost.

Capabilities

xAI highlights three main improvements over the standard image route: more realistic fine detail and textures, stronger multilingual text rendering, and better creative control for product visualization, marketing assets, user-generated-content-style images, UI-style icons, and reference-guided edits.

The model also fits image-to-video workflows because xAI positions Quality Mode outputs as useful starting frames for Grok Imagine video generation.

Technical Details

This is an image-native model, so token-style context and max-output fields are represented as 0 in this content system and should be interpreted as N/A in UI views.

Current xAI docs list:

  • Model name: grok-imagine-image-quality
  • Aliases: grok-imagine-image-quality-20260403, grok-imagine-image-quality-latest
  • Regions: us-east-1, eu-west-1
  • Rate limit: 300 requests per minute in the published table

Pricing & Access

Published xAI pricing:

  • Image input: $0.01 per image
  • Output at 1K: $0.05 per image
  • Output at 2K: $0.07 per image

Access is through xAI’s Grok Imagine API and console. Pricing can vary by cluster and may move quickly while the media stack is still changing, so teams should verify current model-page rates before locking production budgets.

Best Use Cases

Use grok-imagine-image-quality for campaign visuals, product renders, brand asset variants, ad concepts, UGC-style product photography, image editing, and workflows where text rendering or scene realism is the quality gate.

For cheap ideation or large variant batches, start with grok-imagine-image and escalate only the winning prompts to Quality Mode.

Comparisons

  • grok-imagine-image (xAI): Lower-cost standard route; Quality Mode is the higher-quality escalation path.
  • GPT Image 2 (OpenAI): Strong OpenAI-native image model with broader developer ecosystem documentation.
  • Midjourney: Mature creator-facing tool; Grok Imagine Quality Mode is more API-oriented and xAI-stack aligned.