Grok Imagine API

x-ai/grok-imagine-image
The Grok Imagine Image API is xAI's most capable image generation and editing model, delivering photorealistic output, multi-style mastery, and best-in-class prompt adherence through a single, developer-friendly REST endpoint.
Output
$0.026 / gen

How to use Grok Imagine API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to x-ai/grok-imagine-image.
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/images/generations",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY},
    json={
      "model": "x-ai/grok-imagine-image",
      "prompt": "A cat holding a sign that says hello"
    },
)
print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/images/generations", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "x-ai/grok-imagine-image",
    "prompt": "A cat holding a sign that says hello"
  }),
});
console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"x-ai/grok-imagine-image","prompt":"A cat holding a sign that says hello"}'

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

Grok Imagine API Pricing

TypePrice
Output
$0.026 / gen

Grok Imagine Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreWhat it measuresSourceRetrieved
Text-to-Image Arena
1020
Human preference Elo from blind pairwise comparisons of generated images, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 28, 2026

Grok Imagine vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
Grok Imagine
This page
$0.026 / gen
Image generation at scale
$0.325 / 1M tokens
$78 / 1M tokens
128K tokens
Image generation at scale
$6.5 / 1M tokens
$39 / 1M tokens
Image generation at scale
Image generation at scale
$0.0195 / MP (variable)
Image generation at scale

Frequently asked questions

Grok Imagine takes image, text as input and returns image.

Grok Imagine is priced at $0.026 / gen.

Grok Imagine is billed per generation — a fixed charge per output rather than by prompt length.

Yes, Grok Imagine accepts image input as well as a text prompt.

Grok Imagine was built by xAI .

Send a request to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/images/generations with x-ai/grok-imagine-image as the model id.

Yes. Grok Imagine is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.

No, Grok Imagine is an image generation model that only produces images from text input.

Grok Imagine is a lightweight text-to-image model by xAI built for fast, cost-efficient image generation.

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