xAI's image, video, and social-visual creation feature inside Grok — text-to-image, region-level image editing, image-to-video, and video editing in one place, upgraded with the Image 2.0 model in August 2026.
Last verified · 2026-08-16 · by Moe Ameen
Grok Imagine is the image-and-video creation feature built into Grok, xAI's assistant. It runs on grok.com/imagine and inside the Grok iOS and Android apps, and it handles four related jobs: generating images from a text prompt, editing those images, animating a still into motion (image-to-video), and editing the resulting clip. Unlike a single-purpose model, it is the whole creative surface — the stills, the edits, and the short video, in one tool.
The image side stepped up on August 7, 2026 with Grok Imagine Image 2.0, released as the "Quality Mode" on grok.com/imagine and in the apps. At launch xAI placed it second worldwide on both the public Arena text-to-image and image-editing leaderboards, behind OpenAI's gpt-image-2. Image 2.0 leans hard into editing rather than just generation: a magic-wand tool edits only the region you point at and leaves the rest untouched, a segmentation tool selects precise areas to change, and a background-removal tool exports a subject on transparency for use elsewhere. It accepts up to five reference images in a single generation for compositing, smart-resizes across aspect ratios from tall to wide, renders sharp readable text, and ships templates for product shots, headshots, e-commerce listings, game assets, and marketing posters. On August 9, 2026 xAI added native meme generation on top.
The video side is Grok Imagine Video 1.5, xAI's text- and image-to-video model. It shipped as a preview in late May 2026 and reached general availability in mid-June 2026, generating short clips (up to roughly 10 seconds) with native synchronized audio, and pairs with reference images to keep a face, product, or style consistent across scenes. For the full video breakdown, see the dedicated [Grok Imagine Video 1.5](/ai-tools/grok-imagine-video-1-5) page.
Access is through grok.com and the Grok apps — a free tier with a limited quota and higher limits on the SuperGrok subscription (around $30/month) — plus the xAI API, where Image 2.0 is exposed as `grok-imagine-image-2.0`. xAI iterates quickly, so treat specific limits and prices as the current shape and confirm them on xAI's own pages. The honest boundary: Grok Imagine generates and edits the asset, then stops. It does not caption, brand, resize per feed, schedule, or publish — turning a Grok image or clip into finished posts across platforms is a separate job.
Image 2.0 makes Grok Imagine a genuinely strong still-image and editing studio — background-removed product shots, region-edited scenes, multi-reference composites, readable-text posters. What it does not do is turn those assets into a brand system or get them onto a feed. That is the gap Kompozy fills, and it fills it on the image side specifically. Generate and clean up your visuals in Grok, then hand them to Kompozy as source material and it builds the branded, publishable formats around them.
Concretely: export a background-removed subject or a batch of product stills from Image 2.0, drop them into Kompozy, and it lays them into a brand-exact Carousel and Photo Posts through HyperFrames, pulls the key message into Quote Graphics, and — because the same source can fan out — drafts the matching Text Posts, a Blog Article, and an Email Newsletter in your Persona Brief voice. Every asset is reframed to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 for each destination and pushed through a per-post review pipeline or on Autopilot to the eight primary social platforms plus blog and email. Grok Imagine renders and edits the pixels; Kompozy makes them on-brand and ships them everywhere.
Grok Imagine is xAI's image-and-video creation feature inside Grok, available on grok.com/imagine and the Grok apps. It generates images from prompts, edits them, animates stills into short video, and edits the resulting clips. Its current image model is Grok Imagine Image 2.0 and its video model is Grok Imagine Video 1.5.
Image 2.0 is xAI's image model released on August 7, 2026 as Grok Imagine's Quality Mode. At launch it ranked second worldwide on the Arena text-to-image and image-editing leaderboards, behind OpenAI's gpt-image-2. It adds a magic-wand region editor, segmentation, background removal, multi-image reference (up to five inputs), smart resize, and sharp text rendering.
There is a free tier on grok.com and the Grok apps with a limited quota, with higher generation limits on the SuperGrok subscription (around $30/month). Image 2.0 is also available via the xAI API as grok-imagine-image-2.0. Confirm current tiers and pricing on xAI before budgeting, since they change often.
Yes. Grok Imagine animates a still into motion and generates clips from a text prompt using Grok Imagine Video 1.5, producing short videos (up to roughly 10 seconds) with native synchronized audio. See the dedicated Grok Imagine Video 1.5 page for resolution, pricing, and reference-based generation details.
Kompozy is the finishing and distribution layer. Generate and edit your images or clips in Grok Imagine, bring them into Kompozy, and it lays them into brand-exact carousels, photo posts, and quote graphics, spins the same idea into text, a blog, and a newsletter in your Persona Brief voice, reframes each per feed, and publishes across nine destinations — eight social platforms plus blog and email.