by xAI·Released 18 May 2026
Grok Imagine Video makes a clip of 1 to 15 seconds at HD or smaller, from a written description alone, from a still picture it animates, or from up to seven reference pictures that keep characters, styles and settings consistent. It offers seven shapes, from square to wide to tall.
You pay for what each request uses. No subscription, no minimum.
One second of video, the ordinary use
Every rate
| Meter | ↑ you send | ↓ comes back |
|---|---|---|
| Second of video | 16,64 DA |
per second of video returned
↑ 0,67 DA per picture sent, under every choice
One company runs this model. OpenDunes sends every request to it.
| Provider | Per second, with sound | Latency | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | 16,64 DA | … | … |
In 720p: 23,30 DA a second with sound.
You pay the price of the provider that served your request. Prices read 15:20 · speed over the last 30 minutes · uptime over 3 days.
Send the job, then ask for it until it is ready.
import os, time, requests
BASE = "https://opendunes.com/v1"
KEY = os.environ["OPENDUNES_API_KEY"]
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {KEY}"}
job = requests.post(f"{BASE}/videos", headers=H, json={
"model": "x-ai/grok-imagine-video",
"prompt": "Sunrise over the dunes of Taghit, slow pan",
"duration": 8, "resolution": "480p",
"generate_audio": False,
}).json()
while job["status"] not in ("completed", "failed"):
time.sleep(10)
job = requests.get(job["polling_url"], headers=H).json()
print(f"{BASE}/videos/{job['id']}/content")Runs this request once on your balance.
Standard OpenAI fields, grouped by what they control. Anything not listed is accepted and ignored.
Shaping the reply
How long, how varied, where to stop.
max_tokenstemperaturetop_pseedlogprobstop_logprobsStructured output
Get JSON you can parse instead of prose.
response_formatAbout 16,64 DA per second of video. ↑ 0,67 DA per picture sent.
No. You pay per use from your balance, with no subscription. Try it in Chat at the same price.
Grok Imagine Video makes a clip of 1 to 15 seconds at HD or smaller, from a written description alone, from a still picture it animates, or from up to seven reference pictures that keep characters, styles and settings consistent. It offers seven shapes, from square to wide to tall.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite costs 9,98 DA less for the same second of video.
Deposit dinars with your Edahabia or CIB card. Every model, Grok Imagine Video included, is paid from that balance. No foreign card, no conversion.
xAI names no languages for Grok Imagine Video. Arabic, French and Darja: not stated.
1 to 15 seconds. Sound: not stated.
From a first frame. Vertical 9:16: yes.
xAI. Released 18 May 2026.
Grok Voice TTS 1.0 reads text aloud in 20 or more languages and detects the language by itself. Its built-in voices are named Eve, Ara, Rex, Sal and Leo, and short tags in the text set speed, pitch, pauses, emphasis and style. You get a sound file such as MP3 or WAV, with at most 15,000 characters at a time. It only speaks; Grok STT 1.0 does the reverse and writes speech down.
The 2.0 release of Grok Imagine Image, turning prompts into pictures and editing from up to three references at 1K or 2K, in low or medium quality mode; the Quality model is its photorealistic sibling
Grok STT 1.0 listens to a recording and writes down what was said, with a time for every word. It can mark who is speaking and handles recordings with several audio channels. Pick it when you need a written record of a recording with times and speakers. It only turns speech into text; Grok Voice TTS 1.0 does the reverse and reads text aloud.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 makes a video from a written description, with an optional starting picture to set the scene. You can direct how the subject and camera move, the pacing and the mood, and it can add matching sound effects, background sound and spoken lines. Pick it for the best quality of the three. Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite is quicker, and Grok Imagine Video takes up to seven reference pictures.
From what its maker and two benchmark sites publish, and where it stands on OpenDunes. Read 7 Nov 2026.
Animates your photo
Turns your picture into the first frame.
First + last frame No.
Vertical 9:16
Up to 15 s
Make a short clip for a social post
Animate a product photo
Images
Keep the same character across clips using reference images
Images