Grok Imagine
xAI's unified image generation and editing API for product placement, restyling, and precision edits up to 2K.
Overview
What is Grok Imagine
Grok Imagine is xAI's text-to-image and image-editing model, released in March 2026. It generates images up to 2K resolution across multiple aspect ratios, supports restyling, product placement, and precision edits, and is available via API or through Venice's private, zero-retention inference layer.
Running it privately on Venice
On Venice, Grok Imagine runs under a private, zero-retention privacy tier — your prompts and generated images are not stored, profiled, or used to build an advertising profile. You pay per image in credits instead of tethering yourself to an X Premium subscription, accessing the same frontier editing capabilities without linking your identity to xAI's platform.
Assessment
Strengths and limitations
- Generates up to 10 images per request, enabling rapid iteration and A/B testing of visual concepts.
- Built-in editing modalities including product placement, precision attribute edits, and creative restyling without re-rolling from scratch.
- Strong instruction-following for commercial use cases like virtual try-on and catalog photography.
- Competitive per-image pricing on Venice, scaling from 1K to 2K resolution.
- Wide aspect-ratio support (1:1 through 2:3) for flexible channel-ready output.
- Closed and proprietary: xAI has not released weights, so self-hosting and fine-tuning are impossible.
- Maximum resolution is 2K, which lags behind some competing models offering 4K native output.
- Standard content moderation applies; the model is not uncensored or open-source.
- All usage is billed per image on Venice with no free tier for this model.
Samples
Sample outputs
Generated on Venice with our standard prompt suite — the same prompts we run through every model of this type, so you can judge it like-for-like.
A retro travel poster with the bold headline "VENICE" in large condensed serif type, sunset color palette, clean layout
Photorealistic close-up portrait of a weathered fisherman at golden hour, 85mm lens, shallow depth of field, natural skin texture
A small red cube balanced on top of a large glossy blue sphere, with a green cone to the right, plain light-grey studio background
Cozy watercolor illustration of a hillside village in autumn, warm tones, soft paper texture
Capabilities
What it supports
- Text to image
- Image to image
Specifications
Datasheet
- Maker
- xAI
- Released
- March 2, 2026
- Modality
- Text-to-image, image-to-image (editing, restyling)
- Max resolution
- 2K
- Batch size
- Up to 10 images per request
- Open weights
- No — proprietary
- Resolutions
- 1K, 2K
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 3:4, 3:2, 2:3
- Prompt limit
- 7,500 chars
- Privacy on Venice
- Private — zero retention
- Available on Venice since
- Apr 2026
API
Call it from your code
Venice exposes this model through the REST API. Queue a generation with the model id.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/image/generate \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "grok-imagine-image",
"prompt": "A serene mountain lake at dawn, photorealistic"
}' --output image.pngPricing
What it costs on Venice
Pay per image on Venice — price scales with resolution, from $0.04.
New Venice accounts include a free daily allowance and 500 welcome credits — no credit card required.
Alternatives
How it compares
| Model | Max resolution | Strongest at | Open weights | Price (Venice) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok Imagine | 2K | Product editing & placement | No | from $0.04 / image |
| Chroma | — | — | Yes | $0.01 / image |
| Flux 2 Max | — | Photoreal detail | No | $0.09 / image |
| GPT Image 2 | — | — | No | from $0.27 / image |
xAI's general-purpose image generator with built-in restyling and precision editing tools.
Use cases
What it is good for
- 01E-commerce product photography: place items in new environments, angles, and contexts.
- 02Fashion virtual try-on: combine a client photo with a garment to generate a wearable preview.
- 03Marketing creative iteration: restyle existing assets or edit colors and materials across a product line.
- 04Rapid visual prototyping: generate up to 10 variations per prompt to converge on a direction quickly.
- 05Catalog and editorial imagery with precise aspect-ratio control for web and social channels.
Prompting
Getting better results
Start with a 1K draft to iterate cheaply, then upscale to 2K for final delivery.
Use the image-to-image path for restyling or edits rather than rewriting the full text prompt.
Describe the exact environment, angle, and lighting for product placement to improve consistency.
Keep prompts under 7,500 characters; front-load the subject and desired style.
Version history
Current text-to-image and editing model (alias grok-imagine-image-2026-03-02).
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Grok Imagine is xAI's text-to-image and image-editing model, released in March 2026. It generates images up to 2K resolution, supports product placement, precision edits, and creative restyling, and is available via API or privately on Venice.
On Venice you pay per image based on resolution: $0.04 for 1K and $0.06 for 2K. There is no subscription required.
No. On Venice you pay per image based on resolution: $0.04 for 1K and $0.06 for 2K. There is no subscription required, but there is no free tier for this model.
No. Grok Imagine is a proprietary closed-source model from xAI. Its weights have not been released, so it cannot be self-hosted or fine-tuned.
Yes. In addition to text-to-image generation, it supports creative restyling, precision attribute edits, and product placement using an existing image as input.
Grok Imagine is priced lower at $0.04–$0.06 per image and includes built-in editing tools like product placement and restyling. Flux 2 Max costs more and is often favored for photorealistic architectural renders. The better choice depends on whether you need iterative editing or pure realism.
It supports 1K and 2K output resolutions, with aspect ratios including 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 3:4, 3:2, and 2:3.
Yes. The API supports up to 10 images per request, making it easy to generate variations in parallel.
Run Grok Imagine privately
No prompt logging. No data used for training.