Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite API: Pricing and Specs

Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite API

Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite is a text to video and image to video model by xAI, available on the Venice API as grok-imagine-1-5-lite-text-to-video. It runs privately, with zero data retention.

Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`grok-imagine-1-5-lite-text-to-video`	Text to video	Private	from $0.024 / sec
`grok-imagine-1-5-lite-image-to-video`	Image to video	Private	from $0.0256 / sec

Clip prices for grok-imagine-1-5-lite-text-to-video with audio:

Duration	480p	720p	1080p
1s	$0.02	$0.04	$0.17
2s	$0.05	$0.07	$0.34
3s	$0.07	$0.11	$0.50
4s	$0.10	$0.14	$0.67
5s	$0.12	$0.18	$0.84
6s	$0.14	$0.22	$1.01
7s	$0.17	$0.25	$1.18
8s	$0.19	$0.29	$1.34
9s	$0.22	$0.32	$1.51
10s	$0.24	$0.36	$1.68
11s	$0.26	$0.40	$1.85
12s	$0.29	$0.43	$2.02
13s	$0.31	$0.47	$2.18
14s	$0.34	$0.50	$2.35
15s	$0.36	$0.54	$2.52

Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	xAI
Released	Sep 30, 2026
Privacy	Private
Status	Stable
Modes	text to video and image to video
Resolutions	480p, 720p, 1080p
Durations	1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 11s, 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s
Aspect ratios	16:9, 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 2:3, 3:4, 9:16
Audio	Always generated

How to use the Grok Imagine 1.5 Lite API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/queue with "model": "grok-imagine-1-5-lite-text-to-video" and your API key.

# 1. Queue the job (returns a queue_id)
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/queue \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "grok-imagine-1-5-lite-text-to-video",
    "prompt": "Slow aerial drone shot over a misty mountain valley at golden hour",
    "duration": "5s",
    "resolution": "720p",
    "aspect_ratio": "16:9"
  }'

# 2. Poll until the MP4 is ready
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/video/retrieve \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "model": "grok-imagine-1-5-lite-text-to-video", "queue_id": "<queue_id>" }' --output video.mp4

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