Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview ranks #1 in Image-to-Video Arena at $0.14 for 720p
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview took the top 720p Image-to-Video Arena slot with a reported 52-point gain over the previous Grok video model. xAI docs and shared console pricing put the model at $0.08 for 480p and $0.14 for 720p, giving developers a concrete new API option for video generation.
TL;DR
- arena's ranking post put Grok-Imagine-Video-1.5-Preview (720p) at No. 1 in the Image-to-Video Arena, and said it beat Seedance-2.0 and HappyHorse.
- According to arena's benchmark post, the new preview gained 52 points over the earlier Grok-Imagine-Video (720p), a delta that ai_for_success's follow-up repeated with the same chart.
- ai_for_success's pricing post listed console pricing at $0.08 for 480p and $0.14 for 720p, which gives xAI a concrete per-generation price point instead of a vague preview announcement.
- The official xAI model docs, linked in arena's docs reply, show this is already exposed as a named developer model, not just a leaderboard result.
You can jump straight from arena's ranking post to the official xAI model docs, and ai_for_success's console clip adds the part engineers usually want first, the actual 480p and 720p prices. The interesting bit is how little ceremony there was around the ship: a leaderboard jump, a docs page, and a usable console price card all appeared at once.
Image-to-Video Arena
The headline number is simple. arena said Grok-Imagine-Video-1.5-Preview (720p) landed at No. 1 in the Image-to-Video Arena and passed Seedance-2.0 plus HappyHorse.
The bigger technical signal is the delta. arena's post called it a 52 point gain over the previous Grok-Imagine-Video (720p), which is large enough to read as a real model update rather than a cosmetic version bump.
Pricing
The shared console pricing was:
- 480p: $0.08, per ai_for_success's pricing post
- 720p: $0.14, per ai_for_success's pricing post
That matters mostly because video model announcements often arrive without usable cost numbers. Here, the cost card showed up alongside the ranking result.
Docs surface
The official docs link points to xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview model page. Even without a longer launch post in the evidence set, the URL itself gives one useful implementation detail: the shipped model name is grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview.
That makes this a developer-surfaced release, not just a benchmark screenshot. The docs link and the console pricing together suggest xAI pushed the model into its product surface the same day the Arena result circulated.