Grok Imagine Image Quality: lock this still before you buy motion (5cr)
Grok Imagine Image Quality is the stills row. Animate after approval. Do not generate the pack inside the video model.
Grok Imagine Image Quality is the stills row. Animate after approval. Do not generate the pack inside the video model.
Grok Imagine Image Quality is xAI's quality-tier text-to-image row: no still required, 5 credits, quality-optimized generation up to 2K, a wide range of aspect ratios. There is no duration. There is no audio. The text-to-image tool is the door. A video generate is not a "higher-quality still with movement."
Quality tier means 2K, not motion
The catalog name is the hint: Image, Quality. Quality settings listed are 1K and 2K. That is the ceiling. Do not read "quality" as 4K, and do not read it as a video pass. If the delivery spec is a 4K plate, this is the wrong stills row, not a hidden toggle.
Aspect options are the wide kit: 20:9, 19.5:9, 2:1, 16:9, 3:2, 4:3, 1:1, 3:4, 2:3, 9:16, 1:2, 9:19.5, 9:20. Pick the shape here so you are not cropping a 5-credit still to make it fit a story later. Cropping after is how you throw away the quality you paid for.
Five credits to lock the frame
Five credits is the catalog price. Retrying a 5-credit still is how you protect every video credit downstream. Generating "a few moving versions of the same idea" is how you discover the face only worked in one of them, and you cannot say which still it was because you never locked one.
No image is required. This is a from-text still. If the job is "change this approved plate," you want an edit row, not a quality-tier re-roll that will not preserve the pixels you already signed.
Wide ratios are still stills
A 20:9 hero and a 9:20 story frame are two stills, not a sequence. Run the ratios you will actually ship. Approve each. Then animate the winner through image-to-video. The Grok model hub is the rest of the family. This page is only the quality image row: 2K, 5 credits, text in, picture out.
xAI's video surfaces are a different catalog line. Do not treat this generate as a first frame you invented inside a clip. Invent the frame here. Buy motion after the print test: would you ship this as a thumbnail? If not, do not give it a timeline.
Animate after the still wins
The order is the whole post. Prompt the still. Pick the ratio. Read the 2K plate. Then, and only then, spend a video row on it. Grok Imagine Image Quality will not hold a pack together inside motion because it does not make motion. That is the feature.
FAQ
Is Grok Imagine Image Quality a video model?
No. Content type is image. Category is text-to-image. There are no supported durations and no audio field. Animate after approval.
Is the quality tier 4K?
The catalog description is quality-optimized generation up to 2K. Quality settings list 1K and 2K. Plan for 2K, not 4K.
Do I need a reference image?
No. This row does not require an image. A locked-still edit is a different family.
Why not generate the pack as short clips?
Because you cannot approve a label inside motion as cheaply as you can on a 5-credit still. Lock the still. Then buy motion.