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Grok Imagine Video 1.5
xAI's video generation model used by Grok Imagine and the xAI API.
- xAI
- Closed
- Released 30 May 2026
Where it ranks
- BVideo generationModels · Cloud · 1,060 on Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio)
- –Video editingModels · Cloud · no result on this task’s benchmarks yet
Facts
- Vendor
- xAI
- Family
- Grok Imagine Video
- Released
- 30 May 2026
- Weights
- Closed: API and apps only
- License
- proprietary
- API price
- $0.08 per second of video (base rate on docs.x.ai (resolution tiers not shown there); AA lists $15.00/min (=$0.25/s) for its benchmarked config)
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Price from docs.x.ai, 18 Oct 2026.
Benchmark results
| Benchmark | Result | Entry on the leaderboard | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Image to Video (AA-Video-I2V v1.1, with audio) | 1,067 | Grok Imagine Video 1.5AA-Video-I2V v1.1 (with audio) board | 18 Oct 2026 | artificialanalysis.ai |
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Image to Video, no audio (AA-Video-I2V-Silent v1.0) | 1,331 | Grok Imagine Video 1.5AA-Video-I2V-Silent v1.0 (no audio) board | 18 Oct 2026 | artificialanalysis.ai |
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video (AA-Video-T2V v2.1, with audio) | 1,060 | Grok Imagine Video 1.5AA-Video-T2V v2.1 (with audio) board | 18 Oct 2026 | artificialanalysis.ai |
| Artificial Analysis Video Arena: Text to Video, no audio (AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1) | 1,037 | Grok Imagine Video 1.5AA-Video-T2V-Silent v2.1 (no audio) board | 18 Oct 2026 | artificialanalysis.ai |
| LMArena (Arena) Image-to-Video leaderboard | 1,456 | grok-imagine-video-1.5-720pLMArena official leaderboard dataset (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset, config image_to_video, split latest, publish date 2026-09-22); arena.ai page itself returned HTTP 403 | 22 Sep 2026 | datasets-server.huggingface.co |
| LMArena (Arena) Text-to-Video leaderboard | 1,492 | grok-imagine-video-1.5-agentLMArena official leaderboard dataset (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset, config text_to_video, split latest, publish date 2026-09-22); arena.ai page itself returned HTTP 403; agent variant; only Grok 1.5 entry on this board | 22 Sep 2026 | datasets-server.huggingface.co |
Where you can use it
Earlier versions
- Grok Imagine Video · 27 Jan 2026
Sources
- https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/text-to-video
- https://artificialanalysis.ai/video/leaderboard/image-to-video
- https://datasets-server.huggingface.co/rows?dataset=lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset&config=text_to_video&split=latest&offset=0&length=100
- https://datasets-server.huggingface.co/rows?dataset=lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset&config=image_to_video&split=latest&offset=0&length=100