Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite
xAI's new lite video generator makes short clips from text, images, or existing video, available to developers online rather than as a free download.
Key facts
- Released
- Oct 1, 2026
- What it does
- Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Makes video: Creates video clips from a description or a picture.Makes sound: Creates speech, music or other audio.
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- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “XAI docs - grok-imagine-video-1.5-lite”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
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
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Compare Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite with
It came out 124 days after Grok Imagine Video 1.5, the lab's previous model.
The details
Lightweight Video generator: A model that creates video clips from a written description or a still image. model from xAI covering text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video with audio generation, released via 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. access only.
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