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Grok Imagine Image AI Image Generator

The original Grok Imagine: fast, photographic image generation with an eye for composition — wide coastal frames, candid street scenes and clean product shots, most in about ten seconds. 4 credits a picture; edits are 5.

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Aerial photograph of a winding coastal road above a turquoise cove at golden hour — generated with Grok Imagine Image

01 · Overview

What is Grok Imagine Image?

Grok Imagine Image is xAI's first Imagine generation model — the photographic all-rounder that made the line's name. It composes like a photographer: aerials with real geography, street scenes with believable weather, product shots with clean light. Output is a fixed, fast ~1MP class frame, which is exactly why it is cheap.

At 4 credits a picture it is the volume seat in the Grok family — draft a whole storyboard here, then finish the keepers on Grok Imagine Image 2.0 at 2K.

Standard · 4 creditsEdits · 5 credits1 reference11 aspect ratios

Specs & capabilities

InputsText to image · Single-image editing
ResolutionFixed ~1MP class output (1280×720 at 16:9) — speed and price over pixels
Aspect ratios11 ratios, including ultrawide 20:9 and 9:20 for tall placements
Output formatsJPEG or PNG — your pick, at the same price
Pricing shapeGeneration is $0.022 per image and edits are $0.025 — priced here as 4 credits and 5 credits.

Good to know: when a frame deserves more, Grok Imagine Image 2.0 renders it at 2K with stronger text and three-reference edits for 9 credits. For one-credit throwaway drafts, Z-Image Turbo is still the cheapest seat in the studio.

02 · Features

Why creators pick Grok Imagine Image

Documentary portrait of an elderly fisherman mending a net at dawn — generated with Grok Imagine Image

Faces with a life behind them

Documentary portraits are this model's home turf: weathered skin, working hands, harbour light at dawn. It renders people as subjects of a photograph, not characters in a render.

A single white sneaker floating over a pastel gradient background — generated with Grok Imagine Image

Clean product frames, fast

A floating sneaker on a pastel gradient with honest studio light — listing heroes, ad variants and mock placements at 4 credits each, in about ten seconds a frame.

The coastal road scene re-rendered as winter with snow on the cliffs — edited with Grok Imagine Image

One-image edits that hold the layout

The coastal frame at the top of this page, turned to winter: snow on the cliffs, a steel-grey sea — same road, same red car. Single-image edits cost 5 credits and keep the composition you started from.

03 · Create

What you can create with Grok Imagine Image

Real outputs from this studio, with the exact prompts that made them. Load one into the tool and make it yours.

Retro travel poster of the Swiss Alps with a red cogwheel train and the text VISIT THE ALPS — generated with Grok Imagine Image

Retro posters and illustration

“Retro travel poster illustration of the Swiss Alps with a red cogwheel train, screen-print style, text at the top reading VISIT THE ALPS”

It does illustration as happily as photography — screen-print texture, period palette and the headline set in a matching face.

Candid street photograph of a rainy Manhattan evening with umbrellas and taxi headlights — generated with Grok Imagine Image

Candid street scenes

“Candid street photograph of a rainy evening in Manhattan, umbrellas, taxi headlights in the mist, cinematic colour grade”

Mist, headlights and umbrellas in one believable frame — the kind of atmospheric shot that usually takes a plane ticket and bad weather.

Flat lay of a croissant, cappuccino and reading glasses on linen by a sunny window — generated with Grok Imagine Image

Lifestyle flat lays

“Flat-lay photograph of a croissant, a cappuccino and reading glasses on a linen tablecloth by a sunny window, lifestyle magazine photography”

Sunny, tidy and instantly usable — blog headers, café menus and social posts at 4 credits a frame.

04 · Guide

How to use Grok Imagine Image

1

Brief it like a photo

Name the kind of photograph — aerial, candid, flat lay, documentary portrait — and the model composes accordingly.

2

Pick a frame

Eleven aspect ratios including 20:9 ultrawide; JPEG for photographs, PNG for graphics.

3

Generate & download

Credits are held when you submit and charged only on success — most frames land in about ten seconds. Edits take one reference image for 5 credits.

Prompt guide

05 · Pricing

Grok Imagine Image pricing

Generation is 4 credits ($0.04) a picture. Edits are 5 credits ($0.05) with one reference image. One-time credit packs, no subscription, credits never expire.

Mini pack

Best for a first top-up

$5

One-time · ≈ $0.01 per credit

500 credits

≈ 83 Seedream images
≈ 100 GPT Image 2.6 drafts

  • Full ownership & commercial rights
  • Credits never expire
  • Charged only on success

Buy 500 credits

Studio pack

Best for high-volume projects

$50

One-time · ≈ $0.01 per credit

5,200 credits

≈ 866 Seedream images
≈ 1,040 GPT Image 2.6 drafts

  • Full ownership & commercial rights
  • Credits never expire
  • Charged only on success

Buy 5,200 credits

Max pack

Best for the heaviest workloads

$100

One-time · ≈ $0.01 per credit

10,800 credits

≈ 1,800 Seedream images
≈ 450 Nano Banana Pro 2K finals

  • Full ownership & commercial rights
  • Credits never expire
  • Charged only on success

Buy 10,800 credits

06 · FAQ

Grok Imagine Image FAQ

How much does Grok Imagine Image cost?

4 credits ($0.04 at the standard credit rate) per image. Edits cost 5 credits ($0.05) with one reference image. New accounts start with 20 free credits — five free pictures.

How fast is Grok Imagine Image?

Fast — most generations finish in about ten to twenty seconds. Your credits are held when you submit and only charged when the image succeeds.

What is Grok Imagine Image best at?

Photographic scenes with strong composition: landscapes and aerials, candid street photography, documentary portraits, product frames and lifestyle flat lays — at a price that suits volume work and storyboarding.

How do edits work?

Switch to Image to Image, add one reference image and describe the change. Edits cost 5 credits and hold the original composition while restyling the scene. For edits with up to three references and 2K output, use Grok Imagine Image 2.0.

How is it different from Grok Imagine Image 2.0?

This is the original model: faster and cheaper (4 credits), with fixed ~1MP output and single-image edits. 2.0 is the flagship — 2K output, up to three edit references and stronger text rendering for 9 credits.

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