Grok Imagine Quality vs base stills
Grok Imagine Quality is 5 credits. Base Grok Imagine is 2 credits at 4K. Spend 5 on the still you will animate; spend 2 on the sketch.
Grok Imagine Quality is 5 credits. Base Grok Imagine is 2 credits at 4K. Spend 5 on the still you will animate; spend 2 on the sketch.
Grok Imagine extend is 8 credits, 2–10s, silent. Flux 3 extend is 21 credits, 5–20s, with native audio.
Prompt Grok Imagine for stills and image-to-video: design briefs, motion-first I2V. Run rows on Versely.
Grok 2.0 is region edit and compositing. GPT Image 2 is instruction-following stills. Pick the lever, not the arena rank.
Shipped 7–8 Aug 2026 and #2 on stills arenas: edit one region, composite several stills, and pick Quality Mode on purpose.
GPT Image 2 leads stills arenas; Nano Banana 2 is the fast Google row; Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (7–8 Aug) sits second with region edits.
Make stills with xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 in Versely, web and iOS: model picker, 13 aspect ratios, 1K or 2K, and download. From 2 credits at 60% off.
Disc-golf baskets already spent the plate-and-no-throwers job: this leftover is the glow disc SKU, overlay pigment and charge time as authored type, Grok Imagine Image is 4K at 2cr for the catalog still, and do not generate throwers.
Three different 30-second stories: Grok Imagine Video is a 30s menu at 7cr / 720p with native audio; Seedance 2.5 is a 30s single pass at 47cr / 720p with native audio; Veo 3.1 extend is a 7s 720p continuation at 40cr, not a 30s generate.
Grok Imagine Video on Versely is 6 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 30s, 720p, 7 credits, native audio. The X composer is how xAI ships Imagine to a feed. It is not captions, not Seedance, not a 4K Veo take.
Imagine Image, Imagine Video, Extend, TTS are catalog rows. x-ai/grok-4.6 is chat_model. Pin the brain and the renderer separately or the look will drift.
Generate, caption, export. Do not treat X-native as Discord-native.
Seedance I2V from the listing photo. Grok Imagine is an X destination row.
Use Grok Imagine Extend only when the last frame is already a keeper. Extension spends on more seconds, not on a different idea.
Grok Imagine Video has native audio. A silent prompt still gets a soundtrack you did not choose.
When the post lives on X, Imagine's look and the native sharing path can be the point. It is not the general video engine.
Destination routing. Not a general engine.
If the post is not for X, do not pick Grok because it is trendy.
Destination first. Grok Imagine only if the post lives on X.
Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0 chase 30-second single takes, Flux 3 ships 20s with audio. Why duration is hard to ship, and how to hit 30s on Versely today.
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 takes up to seven references. Each image locks a face, a product, or a place. The same update added native 1080p and a voice reference.
The Sora 2 API is shutting down. Direct API jobs stop. ChatGPT's interface is separate. Flux 3 does 20s clips with audio. Kling 3 Turbo has no native audio.