Grok Imagine Video 1.5
xAI, the company behind Grok, released an improved version of its video maker that turns written descriptions into short clips for 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
- May 30, 2026
- What it does
- Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Listens: Understands speech and other sounds.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#5 of 46
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash1,540
- 2Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash1,513
- 3Gemini Omni Flash1,509
- 4FLUX 3 Video1,491
- 5Grok Imagine Video 1.51,488
Source: LMArena · LMArena text-to-video
Compare Grok Imagine Video 1.5 with
It came out 122 days after Grok Imagine Video, the lab's previous model.
The details
xAI's updated Grok Imagine video model, version 1.5, listed on its 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 is a new version of the video generator, not a Snapshot: A dated, frozen version of a model, so developers' apps keep behaving the same even when the main model is updated. of the earlier one.
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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