Grok Imagine Video
xAI, the company behind Grok, offers a tool that makes short videos 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.Watches video: Understands video clips you share with it.Makes video: Creates video clips from a description or a picture.
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.
- 1K tokens
- about 770 words
From the lab's own listing on models.dev, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Videos, by people's votes#18 of 46
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash1,540
- 2Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash1,513
- 17Sora 21,342
- 18Grok Imagine Video1,341
- 19Veo 31,340
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-video
Compare Grok Imagine Video with
It came out 112 days after Grok Imagine, the lab's previous model.
The details
xAI's Video generator: A model that creates video clips from a written description or a still image. 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 short videos 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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