Grok Imagine Image
xAI, the company behind Grok, offers a tool that creates pictures from written descriptions, now available to developers.
This came out before trckr began following xAI API, so it was added on Nov 8 without an alert. Its release date comes from models.dev.
Key facts
- Released
- Jan 28, 2026
- What it does
- Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Makes images: Creates pictures from a description, or edits them.
Can I use it?
In an app
No app mentioned so far.
For developers
Developers can use it now through an API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet..
Download
Not downloadable: it runs on the maker's own servers.
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 16K tokens
- about 12,000 words
From the lab's own listing on models.dev, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Pictures, by people's votes#27 of 78
- GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst1,428
- 2GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst1,406
- 26Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro1,169
- 27Grok Imagine Image1,168
- 28Cosmos3-Super-Text2Image1,164
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-image
Compare Grok Imagine Image with
It came out 415 days after Grok Image Generation / Aurora, the lab's previous model.
The details
xAI's Image generator: A model that creates or edits pictures from a written description. model from the Grok Imagine family, now listed on its own API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet.. It creates and edits images from text prompts.
Model ID: The exact name developers type to use a model, like gpt-5-mini. New IDs often show up in a lab's systems before the official announcement, which is how trckr spots many releases early.
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