Grok Imagine Video 1.5
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xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5 · by xAI · autoregressive-video
Pricing — 1 offering(s)
Standard
- $0.080 / second Current 2026-07-19 → present
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Capability profile
native audio strong
temporal consistency strong
motion quality unknown
Prompt adherence unknown
Resolution ceiling unknown
clip duration ceiling unknown
Inference speed unknown
Operator guidance
Route here for lower-cost video generation with native audio in the same call. Compare against Wan 2.5 or Hailuo-02 (similar per-second cost, no native-audio claim) or Sora 2 (higher cost, diffusion-transformer approach, different quality/consistency tradeoffs) — see the registry entry's closest_competitors for exact pricing.
Use cases
- Budget-conscious video generation — press coverage consistently frames this as priced well below Sora 2
- Workflows wanting native synchronized audio generated alongside video in one call, rather than a separate audio pass
- Both text-to-video and image-to-video from one model
Limitations
- Motion quality, prompt adherence, resolution ceiling, clip duration, and inference speed are all unrated — xAI hasn't published (and this session didn't find) specific, independently verifiable claims for any of these
- Architecture description (Aurora, autoregressive MoE, Temporal Latent Flow) is secondary-sourced synthesis, not confirmed against an xAI-published technical paper — no such paper was found
- The "86% below Sora 2 Pro" pricing-comparison claim in press coverage is a marketing framing, not independently verified against a benchmark